Hawaiian translator and editor

Helen Rainbow

Book language
Hawaiian

Helen Rainbow prepares the English support layer for Hawaiian texts in the graded-reader programme. The ʻokina and the kahakō change what a word means, so she keeps them in every gloss instead of tidying them away. She watches the a-class and o-class possessives, where English “my” hides a distinction Hawaiian insists on.

Books by Helen Rainbow

Hawaiian graded readers with a English glossary beside the text and exercises