Aloha kakou!
Leimamo over at HawaiiStories pointed me in this direction, and joining is the second best thing I did this week (the first being joining HawaiiStories...great community)!
I'm hapa in the strictest sense of the word, and I'm here because I'm doing my best to connect to the "Aloha side" of my family. I'm learning to speak Hawaiian, and I've discovered I've learned a lot more about the language browsing the threads here than I have in browsing the Web for articles and such. Since I'm not in Hawai`i and I don't have a Hawaiian community here in Louisiana, forums like HawaiiThreads is the closest to immersion I'm going to get!
I read the thread on the origin of the term "haole," and that blew me away! I really needed to read the differing perspectives on that, and I'm hoping everybody here gets into more discussions about the language. That's just one of those things a person can't really understand unless they're in the middle of it.
My first order of business here is to find out how everybody makes sticky rice! I'm off to the Kaukau Korner!
Leimamo over at HawaiiStories pointed me in this direction, and joining is the second best thing I did this week (the first being joining HawaiiStories...great community)!
I'm hapa in the strictest sense of the word, and I'm here because I'm doing my best to connect to the "Aloha side" of my family. I'm learning to speak Hawaiian, and I've discovered I've learned a lot more about the language browsing the threads here than I have in browsing the Web for articles and such. Since I'm not in Hawai`i and I don't have a Hawaiian community here in Louisiana, forums like HawaiiThreads is the closest to immersion I'm going to get!
I read the thread on the origin of the term "haole," and that blew me away! I really needed to read the differing perspectives on that, and I'm hoping everybody here gets into more discussions about the language. That's just one of those things a person can't really understand unless they're in the middle of it.
My first order of business here is to find out how everybody makes sticky rice! I'm off to the Kaukau Korner!
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