Aloha friends.

[Hawkeye-X]

I am very interested in learning the Hawai'ian language, and would appreciate any useful links to learn it.

I have a very good friend that lives in Honolulu, and I would like to go visit him someday. We both went to college together, and I left college, and have maintained an occasional contact with him.

Hawkeye-X

[ellisonz]

1. Hawai'ian appears to this haole appears to be a very difficult language to learn.

You'd be better off spending your time learning Spanish...or you can read this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Pidgin-Da-Max-25th-Anniversary/dp/1573062502/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-5788078-0055033?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182514498&sr=8-1

[Cha]

4. Pidgin English is much more

Fun! There's a lot of Hawaiian words in there from a conglomeration of people from all over the world trying to communicate early on the Hawaiian Islands.

I lived on Kauai from '92 to '98 and I'm goin' back in 2010..yay!

Here's da kine link.. http://www.extreme-hawaii.com/pidgin/

I got to get back to my little grass shack in Hawaii...

Oh, I see you got pidgin link, too! B-)

[ellisonz]

7. Pidgin is from the sugar plantation workers.

Actually not much Hawaiian about it.

[yorkiemommie1]

2. try this:

http://www.geocities.com/~olelo/hltableofcontents.html

http://www.videoed.com/c4144.html?gclid=CJP_2L-D8YwCFQQRYwodfH7PDg

http://www.geocities.com/~olelo/o-linkpage.html


I grew up there but never heard it spoken. Now, however, they are teaching children the language.

Perhaps someone who lives there now can connect you with more resources.

Aloha and good luck!

yorkie

[PoiBoy]

3. Some links...

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/eng/digitalstream2003.html

http://alohaworld.com/index.htm

http://www.classbrain.com/artteensb/publish/article_36.shtml

http://www.maps2anywhere.com/Languages/Hawaiian_language_course.htm

https://www.languageresourceonline.com/languages/learn-hawaiian.html

http://www.instanthawaii.com/cgi-bin/hawaii?Language

http://www.ahapunanaleo.org/learnhawaiian/learn_niu_faqs.html

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/hawaiian.htm

hope you find something that helps you...

Mahalo for your interest..!!!

:hi:

[IndyDurham]

6. Thanks!

...for posting these.

[mahina]

5. Hi Hawkeye, we all speak English here. So come over and

take a class at KCC or an evening class, or pick up a CD. My son has been taking it for three years, and he's pretty fluent. Every now and again you hear people conversing in Hawaiian- like once or twice a year.

Aloha.