ALOHA everyone,
This post goes out to my Hawaiiana kumu, kupuna Park, from when I was a keiki. Our kupuna in our class always told the keikis if they wanted to speak local to learn Hawaiian. I remember her saying that pidgin is NOT Hawaiian. And that Hawaiians spoke perfect English before the immigrants came. I remember her talking as if she despised pidgin. And said that pidgin is the immigrants language not the Hawaiians language. She said, the Hawaiian language is beautiful and I get offended when people say pidgin is Hawaiian.
I'm writing this to say that if you are a person that loves Hawaii please consider learning Hawaiian to keep the language alive. And these are not my views. These are the views of a pure Hawaiian woman, kupuna Park. She was a Hawaiiana teacher through 50's to the 80's. And had a real Hawaiian accent which did sound completely different from a pidgin accent.
This was her message to keep the Hawaiian language alive.
ALOHA
This post goes out to my Hawaiiana kumu, kupuna Park, from when I was a keiki. Our kupuna in our class always told the keikis if they wanted to speak local to learn Hawaiian. I remember her saying that pidgin is NOT Hawaiian. And that Hawaiians spoke perfect English before the immigrants came. I remember her talking as if she despised pidgin. And said that pidgin is the immigrants language not the Hawaiians language. She said, the Hawaiian language is beautiful and I get offended when people say pidgin is Hawaiian.
I'm writing this to say that if you are a person that loves Hawaii please consider learning Hawaiian to keep the language alive. And these are not my views. These are the views of a pure Hawaiian woman, kupuna Park. She was a Hawaiiana teacher through 50's to the 80's. And had a real Hawaiian accent which did sound completely different from a pidgin accent.
This was her message to keep the Hawaiian language alive.
ALOHA
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