{"id":95730,"date":"2019-05-20T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=95730"},"modified":"2019-05-22T13:26:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T23:26:21","slug":"olelo-hawaii-harry-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/20\/olelo-hawaii-harry-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> instructor behind the \u02bb\u014dlelo Hawai\u02bbi Harry Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_94990\"  width=\"676\" height=\"380\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6y0egN9kp9g?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Meet the Â鶹´«Ã½instructor behind the \u02bb\u014dlelo Hawai\u02bbi Harry Potter\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a> language instructor <strong>Keao NeSmith<\/strong> is the linguist behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Harry-Potter-P%C5%8Dhaku-Akeakamai-Philosophers\/dp\/1782012060\/\"><em>Harry Potter a Me Ka P&#333;haku Akeakamai<\/em><\/a>, an <span aria-label=\"olelo\">&#699;&#333;lelo<\/span> <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> (Hawaiian language) translation of J.K. Rowling\u2019s <em>Harry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>NeSmith, a cultural practitioner, was born and raised in Kekaha, <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span>, where he regularly spoke Hawaiian with his grandmother. Translating <em>Harry Potter<\/em> was a fun endeavor for NeSmith, and he was not anticipating such a powerful reaction.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A couple of people have expressed to me, in tears, how they never would have imagined having it in Hawaiian,&rdquo; said NeSmith.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> story:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/12\/10\/harry-potter-olelo-hawaii-translation\/\"><em>Harry Potter<\/em> and the <span aria-label=\"olelo\">&#699;&#333;lelo<\/span> <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> translation<\/a>, December 10, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Watch the interview with NeSmith about his passion for working on <span aria-label=\"olelo\">&#699;&#333;lelo<\/span> <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> translations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-harry-potter-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Potter cover with Hawaiian words\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-96641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-harry-potter-cover.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-harry-potter-cover-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-harry-potter-cover-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa language instructor Keao NeSmith is the linguist behind an <span aria-label=\"olelo\">&#699;&#333;lelo<\/span> <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> translation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1057,1351,158,9],"class_list":["post-95730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-hawaiian-language","tag-indo-pacific-languages-and-literatures","tag-publication","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95730"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97101,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95730\/revisions\/97101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}