I grew up speaking pidgin, but my grandma always made sure I knew proper english. I have been away from the islands for ten years.. But people here say i have an exotic accent, and my ohana in Hawaii say I speak like one Haole. I am very proud of my heritage! And I teach my kids the same! Love you hawaii!!!
I don't know if this is rare..but I grew up in Hawaii. my parents taught us that while speaking proper english is useful, Pidgin gives you a sense of culture...so, I speak proper english, with small kine pidgin here and there..i refuse to speak only proper english..Pidgin was my first language..
I am hapa (half Japanese half Irish) and was raised in Hawai'i. While I did not develop a totally pidgin way of speaking, I did grow up speaking it and to this day I fall right back into it whenever I am around anyone from home and my family still over there. It is funny how anyone living on the mainland now will do the same when we all get around locals. It's just like if I were to speak any other language and start automatically speaking it around others to speak it. Pidgin is a fun thing.
I'm all about conducting myself with intellect, maturity, and being well rounded . I feel the same way about mainlanders when they use ghetto Ebonics and California slang. All forms of slang is considered unintelligent in the real world.
For me personally I'm multicultural as my form of communication goes which includes trying to reach out to people from Europe, India, South America, not just Asia alone but most of the entire globe and I can't expect people all over the world to take me seriously or understand me if I were to speak pidgin. But then again this is just me I personally have nothing against pidgin.
For me I'm from Hawaii. I could never see myself speaking straight Pidgin English coming from an Asian guy here because its just not me. The farthest I'll go is speak local English and that's it. But in real life that isn't how I naturally speak. If I were to speak pidgin English I can't expect people to take me seriously and I'll feel like an idiot AKA wannabe.
I live in Hawaii and honestly saying I'm proud to speak pidgin to anyone because Its been apart of my entire life. Everyone in my family speaks pidgin. ^____^
I kinda lost my pidgin, but people from Hawaii that live in Las Vegas for some reason know i come from Hawaii. I never said a word sometimes but they said i had the hawaiian Glow. which is weird but cool. I still understand pidgin tho, just kinda shy to speak pidgin anymore lol.
Thanks for posting this . It's hard to explain in 4 minutes. It's ingrained in you growing up here and it can't be explained well from those that look from the outside. It is understood by knowing people especially old people from plantation time that spoke it in even more of a transitional time. Thanks.
what is "correct english". i would guess it would be the language spoken in england. every other english speaking origin would be an accent, and this is ours.....im proud of our "accent".
Interesting! As a linguist, I'd never state that one language is better than another because it's function is for communication so once you can communicate in a certain language then it has a function. Certain different creoles also exist in Africa and South America too. In Ireland where I come from, we have our indigenous language, Gaelic and our own variety of English though not a creole, it has borrowed much from Gaelic and Scots.
I learned several languages to perform in Hawai'i: Filipino, Hawai'ian , Spanish , Japanese etc. and got paid to sing and I knew what I was singing and I was so proud of it. Anyone who knows more than 1 language is doing good in my book. How many of you critics have a PHD IN HAWAI'IAN & ENGLISH !!?? Go to the University of Hawai'i Manoa and see !
Jes'like people from New Yawk talk differenty than people in Alabama have a different type of speaking English depending on their location and family back ground. To say that anyone is ignorant is disgraceful. I am one haole on the outside but toally Hawai'ian on the inside. To be able to meld all these languages into one that they can all understand shows high intelligence on all sides as these people found a way to communicate.Plus all are supposed to watch their language on this site !!!!!
pidgin is an accent not a language dumbass. scotland got their own accent to english, as does australia. but they dont call it their language just their accent to english.
@DarthSolusar Actually it is a language. Its called Hawaiian creole. Most of Hawaii does not use it any more. In this video it is represented as an accent but it was originally a language. It is made up of all the languages that were mentioned in the video. If you were native from Japan, the Philippines, Portugal, etc. you wouldn't know what the heck they were saying even though it has that language in it. Pidgin today is not what it was back in the plantation days.
@DarthSolusar Just like any language there's the constant gravitational pull from the prestige variety (Standard English, in this case). Due to deriving the vast, vast majority of its lexicon from English, it can be mutually intelligible with the standard, but I'd recommend checking out a few passages from Da Jesus Book, written in a "heavy" HCE variety less influenced by SE and you'll see grammatical features unlike those found in the common speech of Australia, Scotland, South Africa, etc.
@HRDINA1... Yes! I'm a "fuckin haole" born and raised in the islands. My perspective is very accurate. "wikiki what the fuck" doesn't sound like English, you're absolutely right! But, "Eh fucka, gimme money so i can buy one 6 pack, bumbai I give you dirty lickins" is in fact slang. You can attempt to justify this the same way the proponents of ebonics did, but it still won't deter suspicion that you're all lowlife scumbags.
@firedogvegas Your perspective is shit. Why are you so ignorant? Do you even live here? "Wikiwiki kau kau mai tai" does not sound like English. Pidgin is a collaboration of languages, not a degradation of the English language like Ebonics. It's completely the opposite.
@firedogvegas LOL are you serious? "We're not expecting a lot from you guys"? If you haven't notice, the President is from Hawaii. Bruno Mars, Dwayne Johnson, Nicole Scherzinger. Many important people and traditions are from Hawaii. If you ain't in Hawaii, don't bother watching.
hey, thanks for sharing this with me...very cool, I learned a lot in a short time...I'm facinated by how Pidgin evolved by merging all those cultures together in an effort to communicate...brilliant!!!
I live in Cali also but I dont miss Pidgin. It sounds really fucken stupid. It is equivalent to the rednecks in the mainland talkin like this " I goin fix me a squirrel to eat now missy."
@DrSpike666 It is a "mutilation of english", and it's not our "language"... the Hawaiian/Tahitian language is as good as dead, but this is the accent of the locals who live on the Hawaiian islands. It comes in varying levels to. I have a very suddle(sp?) Hawaiian accent, where'as I do have friends back home, who sometimes I can't even understand half of what they're saying....
@rinkagamine991 I do don't I? :) haha nah you make a good point too, if the haoles back then didn't come to hawaii, Hawaiian language would've also been the default
I forgot to address why the linguist didn't explain the very last word in his sample phrase his grandma would've said with "mai tai" attributing it to Hawaiian?
To anyone reading, I need some help from fluent speakers in Hawaiian pidgin. I’m writing a story for a class and part of the story takes place in Hawaii so I need help with translating what I write into pidgin. If anyone wants to help me out with that I’d REALLY REALLY appreciate it. Please contact me and let me know if you can help, my story is being held up because of this. I could just write it in plain ordinary English but I would still like the option. Thanks so much!!!
Which way of pidgin? Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, Philipino? City/country, Maui/Molokai/Big Island, Waimanalo/Makaha. I'm sure you are writing in a certain direction.
that part where the guy says, "get people ask....." I've never, ever heard ANYONE speak like that at all. Sometimes people really push to create this idea of how pidgin should be. No surprised where this is coming from. Having grown up on a plantation & exposed to many passive speakers of their parents' native tongue plus from a small island, I still never heard anyone use "get" followed by that example I mentioned.
hai ya thank you ah. I also ken anderstend yor pijin. In malaysia, wi ohso speek like det. I speek Malaysia patois inglish to my two kids orso. But many peeple don like I speek to my kids like det. Dey say low class inglish, later peeple no give respect to my kids. I say I am Malaysian and I am proud to speek "Manglish", it gif me identity mah. And yes my kids can speak standard english too. Long Live Pidgin.
This brings back SO many memories. I was in Hawaii for just two weeks for a vacation but I was so fascinated with pidgin! It reminds me of how my ethnic background speaks and there were SO many similarities! Speaking pidgin made me feel like a native Hawaiian and I miss Hawaii!
@thingsTheater Most speakers don't know the origin of many of the words just as native English speakers don't know many of the origin of the words they use daily. I learned over a number of years...and still learning. Very interesting though to find out the origin of some of these. I kinda did a report on the grammar & origin of some of the words back in college but at that time I didn't have access to the great books on the very subject.
Great video. I love the way that this video was made. The explanation about Pidgin Language in Hawaii was also great. I am glad that this video was made so people can understand and realize what the real Hawaii is really like.
My first time in San francisco's china town, I went shop to shop looking for Manapua before fully understanding I was really looking for Char Siu Bao. I was irritated, how come these Chinese dont know what manapua is??? Lol No can help!
@kahooilokane That's because you were using the Hawaiian word for pork bun. In China town Oakland or S.F., the people there speak Cantonese mainly and don't understand Hawaiian pidgin. Now there are plenty of Hawaiians in the Bay Area so next time ask them to take you to the Pacific Islander store, they're everywhere here and they got everything you want there.
I have mixed feelings. Hawaiian is the language of Hawai'i, but I do agree that Pidgin is more commonly spoken & that it's birth came out of the plantation era. I hope those who aren't fully informed are not MISINFORMED. Other than that, I liked this video & the subtitles were a nice touch too. =)
...So, instead of hating each other, they learned to communicate. WOW...what a thought!? Amazing. Seriously...I mean. To think that these immigrants that worked on plantations who couldn't speak English, got along. WOW! Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Hawaiian, Korean, Portuguese...holy cow. Can't say that it's because they're all Asian, those countries have had hostile histories with each other...what?
@thugsandgangs2 the unfortunate truth is, you are right. And it shouldn't be that way. You shouldn't easily accept it and say, "It comes with the territory...", and people those who most tourists need to realize that not all tourists are there for malevolent purposes. It's sad, but...it really is all a "BIG MISUNDERSTANDING". And then we have the understanding of cultures, of languages, of history, and who is willing to take the time to do that? Very few, my friend. Very few.
@thugsandgangs2 I'll admit, you're right. What's worse is WE are both at fault. You accept it as truth, with the "It comes with the territory..." statement; and I'm a former educator who burnt out, "QUIT" on teens that needed me. Is this a simple perceptive misunderstanding by tourists, or do the locals really hate them? Why? Simple - it's cultural. Just as language can pose a barrier, so does culture. Nothing that a little education can't fix, but it takes time and energy my friend.
@SPAMusubiHalau I completely agee 100%, these cultures were brought together unwillingly and under harsh circumstances and got along enough to create a language just to work together and co exist. Phenomenal! Can't say I know of too many other cultures willing to do that out of neccesity or any other reason.
hes reading in pidgin, and thats not how it works. you dont read in pidgin, you speak it. its not authentic when the guy is reading it because it is an oral phenomenon. so the rest of the vid is pretty right on. "an den mea'ono pua'a comes manapua'a" is a good example i think. this shows many problems that were encountered when dictionaries or books were conceived of in pidgin. the native white population in royal hawaii spoke Hawaiian at the time. pidgin has been in development since then&still
@minus00 I think that's why it seems soooo mechanical. I mean, even for me personally, the speech changes depending on the feeling & most importantly to whom I'm speaking. It's like asking why did my cousin use "pua'a" vs. "buta" or "babuy" when they know all & use all including PIG. It all depends.
fascinating
woohoo5790 2 weeks ago
I grew up speaking pidgin, but my grandma always made sure I knew proper english. I have been away from the islands for ten years.. But people here say i have an exotic accent, and my ohana in Hawaii say I speak like one Haole. I am very proud of my heritage! And I teach my kids the same! Love you hawaii!!!
10mkellis15 2 weeks ago 3
I don't know if this is rare..but I grew up in Hawaii. my parents taught us that while speaking proper english is useful, Pidgin gives you a sense of culture...so, I speak proper english, with small kine pidgin here and there..i refuse to speak only proper english..Pidgin was my first language..
enafofena 2 weeks ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Das da Oneaa
R3B3L808 3 weeks ago
I like see one longer vid of da kine wit choke more information
theouterparty 3 weeks ago
I am hapa (half Japanese half Irish) and was raised in Hawai'i. While I did not develop a totally pidgin way of speaking, I did grow up speaking it and to this day I fall right back into it whenever I am around anyone from home and my family still over there. It is funny how anyone living on the mainland now will do the same when we all get around locals. It's just like if I were to speak any other language and start automatically speaking it around others to speak it. Pidgin is a fun thing.
kmow0803 1 month ago
I'm all about conducting myself with intellect, maturity, and being well rounded . I feel the same way about mainlanders when they use ghetto Ebonics and California slang. All forms of slang is considered unintelligent in the real world.
RussX5Z 1 month ago
For me personally I'm multicultural as my form of communication goes which includes trying to reach out to people from Europe, India, South America, not just Asia alone but most of the entire globe and I can't expect people all over the world to take me seriously or understand me if I were to speak pidgin. But then again this is just me I personally have nothing against pidgin.
RussX5Z 1 month ago
For me I'm from Hawaii. I could never see myself speaking straight Pidgin English coming from an Asian guy here because its just not me. The farthest I'll go is speak local English and that's it. But in real life that isn't how I naturally speak. If I were to speak pidgin English I can't expect people to take me seriously and I'll feel like an idiot AKA wannabe.
RussX5Z 1 month ago
I live in Hawaii and honestly saying I'm proud to speak pidgin to anyone because Its been apart of my entire life. Everyone in my family speaks pidgin. ^____^
kaleimaile123 1 month ago
Turdy tree :D
pinkfurryhat 1 month ago
I kinda lost my pidgin, but people from Hawaii that live in Las Vegas for some reason know i come from Hawaii. I never said a word sometimes but they said i had the hawaiian Glow. which is weird but cool. I still understand pidgin tho, just kinda shy to speak pidgin anymore lol.
RickDiggityTick 2 months ago
Thanks for posting this . It's hard to explain in 4 minutes. It's ingrained in you growing up here and it can't be explained well from those that look from the outside. It is understood by knowing people especially old people from plantation time that spoke it in even more of a transitional time. Thanks.
woodsrider117 2 months ago in playlist More videos from eyeonoahu
the language originated when hawaiian lower class were made to put a small pidgeon in a child's mouth for 2 years as he was learning to speak..
SCIGA100 2 months ago
5 people are racist
hcmiyata 2 months ago
Comment removed
firedogvegas 3 months ago
what is "correct english". i would guess it would be the language spoken in england. every other english speaking origin would be an accent, and this is ours.....im proud of our "accent".
keaokole1 3 months ago
Comment removed
firedogvegas 3 months ago
Interesting! As a linguist, I'd never state that one language is better than another because it's function is for communication so once you can communicate in a certain language then it has a function. Certain different creoles also exist in Africa and South America too. In Ireland where I come from, we have our indigenous language, Gaelic and our own variety of English though not a creole, it has borrowed much from Gaelic and Scots.
GaeilgeSpraoi 3 months ago
Some of da tings in dis vid stay wrong. But, eh noting we can do about em now. Stay on da web das why.
101mahina 3 months ago
I learned several languages to perform in Hawai'i: Filipino, Hawai'ian , Spanish , Japanese etc. and got paid to sing and I knew what I was singing and I was so proud of it. Anyone who knows more than 1 language is doing good in my book. How many of you critics have a PHD IN HAWAI'IAN & ENGLISH !!?? Go to the University of Hawai'i Manoa and see !
ALOHA,
kfwahine 3 months ago 2
Jes'like people from New Yawk talk differenty than people in Alabama have a different type of speaking English depending on their location and family back ground. To say that anyone is ignorant is disgraceful. I am one haole on the outside but toally Hawai'ian on the inside. To be able to meld all these languages into one that they can all understand shows high intelligence on all sides as these people found a way to communicate.Plus all are supposed to watch their language on this site !!!!!
kfwahine 3 months ago
pidgin is an accent not a language dumbass. scotland got their own accent to english, as does australia. but they dont call it their language just their accent to english.
DarthSolusar 4 months ago
Comment removed
ulallume 3 months ago
@DarthSolusar Actually it is a language. Its called Hawaiian creole. Most of Hawaii does not use it any more. In this video it is represented as an accent but it was originally a language. It is made up of all the languages that were mentioned in the video. If you were native from Japan, the Philippines, Portugal, etc. you wouldn't know what the heck they were saying even though it has that language in it. Pidgin today is not what it was back in the plantation days.
wufscello 3 months ago 2
@DarthSolusar Just like any language there's the constant gravitational pull from the prestige variety (Standard English, in this case). Due to deriving the vast, vast majority of its lexicon from English, it can be mutually intelligible with the standard, but I'd recommend checking out a few passages from Da Jesus Book, written in a "heavy" HCE variety less influenced by SE and you'll see grammatical features unlike those found in the common speech of Australia, Scotland, South Africa, etc.
copyvio 2 months ago
@HRDINA1... Yes! I'm a "fuckin haole" born and raised in the islands. My perspective is very accurate. "wikiki what the fuck" doesn't sound like English, you're absolutely right! But, "Eh fucka, gimme money so i can buy one 6 pack, bumbai I give you dirty lickins" is in fact slang. You can attempt to justify this the same way the proponents of ebonics did, but it still won't deter suspicion that you're all lowlife scumbags.
firedogvegas 4 months ago
@firedogvegas
If you no like Hawai'ians and our culture, why the hell you here?
iheartbeets 3 months ago 5
Comment removed
firedogvegas 4 months ago
@firedogvegas Your perspective is shit. Why are you so ignorant? Do you even live here? "Wikiwiki kau kau mai tai" does not sound like English. Pidgin is a collaboration of languages, not a degradation of the English language like Ebonics. It's completely the opposite.
HRDINA1 4 months ago 7
@HRDINA1 um i tink I go watch a diffrent video
trulychloe 3 months ago
@firedogvegas LOL are you serious? "We're not expecting a lot from you guys"? If you haven't notice, the President is from Hawaii. Bruno Mars, Dwayne Johnson, Nicole Scherzinger. Many important people and traditions are from Hawaii. If you ain't in Hawaii, don't bother watching.
heyitsjulie1222 3 months ago
Why was there subtitles and why r they saying its a whole diffrent language its just english with slang ahhhh what has hawai come to
junior1997808 5 months ago
Ah forget it
trulychloe 5 months ago
hey, thanks for sharing this with me...very cool, I learned a lot in a short time...I'm facinated by how Pidgin evolved by merging all those cultures together in an effort to communicate...brilliant!!!
smalls120778 5 months ago
I can speak it
trulychloe 5 months ago
You Buggahs mind if spoke some pidgin on videos li'dis?
trulychloe 5 months ago
Comment removed
mtb83201 5 months ago
Lick dat faka!! nah lol but manapua = cat!!!!!!
51015 5 months ago
i speak it everyday and around tourist groups, dey all get confused... =p
konajgreg65 6 months ago
kau kau is hawaiian, it means to eat.
e7573t 6 months ago
im so incredibly homesick right now. i dont think no one but locals will truely understand why its so special
alohilani1215 8 months ago
@alohilani1215 ai! i undastand
Keliiholokai89 6 months ago
As a local girl now living in California, I miss hearing pidgin so much
akpacleb 8 months ago
@akpacleb
I live in Cali also but I dont miss Pidgin. It sounds really fucken stupid. It is equivalent to the rednecks in the mainland talkin like this " I goin fix me a squirrel to eat now missy."
cooper2132 5 months ago
That is not their language, its a mutilation of english.
This is equivalent to all the hood rats speaking gangsta :P
I dont care what they tell me, i still think they both sound unintelligent.
DrSpike666 9 months ago
@DrSpike666 Oh really well im sorry you feel that way. But your mom loves it when i talk to her like this ahaha mmm....
hawaiian96chence 8 months ago
@DrSpike666 It is a "mutilation of english", and it's not our "language"... the Hawaiian/Tahitian language is as good as dead, but this is the accent of the locals who live on the Hawaiian islands. It comes in varying levels to. I have a very suddle(sp?) Hawaiian accent, where'as I do have friends back home, who sometimes I can't even understand half of what they're saying....
Ackles4life 6 months ago
@DrSpike666 With all things considered though, to say it makes them sound "unintelligent", makes you sound both narrow minded, and ignorant.
American English, is a mutation of English. Because true 'English' is actually ENGLAND English. Where did you go to schoolo_O'
Ackles4life 6 months ago
NO CAN NO CAN
baozeng 9 months ago
one DOLLA!!!
slipsonic 9 months ago
you see that boyy..cheee huuu mybraddahz and sistahz
KYDFRESH808 9 months ago
ITS UNCO SANTA SAM!!!!
AznSpiderMonkey 9 months ago
it's not the voice of Hawaii! It's people speaking dumb english. Real hawaiian is the hawaiian languege itself
rinkagamine991 10 months ago
@rinkagamine991 shut the fuck up lol
TheKale808 10 months ago
@TheKale808 Sorry you don't like the truth.
rinkagamine991 9 months ago
@rinkagamine991 Lol, it is and is not the truth.
Its the truth, because hawaiian language literally is the language.
Its not the truth, because hawaiian pidgin is the default english accent for all locals.
TheKale808 9 months ago
@TheKale808 You make a good point .
rinkagamine991 9 months ago
@rinkagamine991 I do don't I? :) haha nah you make a good point too, if the haoles back then didn't come to hawaii, Hawaiian language would've also been the default
TheKale808 9 months ago
And I thought I had a bad pronunciation speaking English ;) Greetings from Russia, aloha!
pilivon 10 months ago
And I thought I had a bad pronunciation speaking English ;) Greetings from Russia, aloha!
pilivon 10 months ago
I forgot to address why the linguist didn't explain the very last word in his sample phrase his grandma would've said with "mai tai" attributing it to Hawaiian?
mamoahina 1 year ago
To anyone reading, I need some help from fluent speakers in Hawaiian pidgin. I’m writing a story for a class and part of the story takes place in Hawaii so I need help with translating what I write into pidgin. If anyone wants to help me out with that I’d REALLY REALLY appreciate it. Please contact me and let me know if you can help, my story is being held up because of this. I could just write it in plain ordinary English but I would still like the option. Thanks so much!!!
sweetmystique32 1 year ago
@sweetmystique32
Which way of pidgin? Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, Philipino? City/country, Maui/Molokai/Big Island, Waimanalo/Makaha. I'm sure you are writing in a certain direction.
kalanikahalewai 1 year ago
that part where the guy says, "get people ask....." I've never, ever heard ANYONE speak like that at all. Sometimes people really push to create this idea of how pidgin should be. No surprised where this is coming from. Having grown up on a plantation & exposed to many passive speakers of their parents' native tongue plus from a small island, I still never heard anyone use "get" followed by that example I mentioned.
mamoahina 1 year ago
hai ya thank you ah. I also ken anderstend yor pijin. In malaysia, wi ohso speek like det. I speek Malaysia patois inglish to my two kids orso. But many peeple don like I speek to my kids like det. Dey say low class inglish, later peeple no give respect to my kids. I say I am Malaysian and I am proud to speek "Manglish", it gif me identity mah. And yes my kids can speak standard english too. Long Live Pidgin.
sonnymak 1 year ago
BRAH KUZ DIZ VIDEO IS COOL A WEN DA NEX VIDEO KUMIN OUT K ALOHA
TheMAUIBOI86 1 year ago
whea da ress uf da video stay????!
Jlird808 1 year ago
hey dats uncle nappy!!
rose1856 1 year ago
Ho bra, these grinds so ono! (spam musubu, manapua, chicken katsu)
Proud to live in HAWAII!
AlohaMaggieSteele 1 year ago
COOL. I have to do this for my Linguistics project. hahaha :D
3ohxoh3 1 year ago
Where's the rest of the video? There's more to this documentary :(
Renvi 1 year ago
This brings back SO many memories. I was in Hawaii for just two weeks for a vacation but I was so fascinated with pidgin! It reminds me of how my ethnic background speaks and there were SO many similarities! Speaking pidgin made me feel like a native Hawaiian and I miss Hawaii!
Shadowrunner6969 1 year ago
@Shadowrunner6969 you mean it makes you feel like a native Hawaiian vs. a non-native Hawaiian, right?
mamoahina 1 year ago
@mamoahina "Na kama aina" would be the correct term, I think?
Shadowrunner6969 1 year ago
@Shadowrunner6969 haha...yes, now that one i like better. Actually, "local" too is one we habitually use aside from "kamaaina."
mamoahina 1 year ago
@mamoahina Coolness. You had me second-guessing myself. Thanks, brah.
Shadowrunner6969 1 year ago
@Shadowrunner6969 lol.......derp
IAmGunzNoob 11 months ago
Wow, I grew up in Hawaii and I speak and understand Pidgin pretty well, but this was educational even for me. I never knew "kau kau" was chinese.
thingsTheater 1 year ago
@thingsTheater Ha me neither! I was like O_O.....mom you know that?
WeAreAscentia 1 year ago
@thingsTheater Most speakers don't know the origin of many of the words just as native English speakers don't know many of the origin of the words they use daily. I learned over a number of years...and still learning. Very interesting though to find out the origin of some of these. I kinda did a report on the grammar & origin of some of the words back in college but at that time I didn't have access to the great books on the very subject.
mamoahina 1 year ago
I want to talk like that.
fragfestchampion 1 year ago
briliant
arequipa1 1 year ago
Hooo cuz da vigeo is bad lidat. Uncle wen really learn me how. Now I know now. Kden Shaka braddah kine
myk96792 1 year ago
I like the explanation of the word "manapua." man, i like eat one now. lol!
Oombalah 1 year ago
@kananilehua100, the Island Manapua Factory is in the Manoa Marketplace on the Longs side (not Safeway side). They're really good! :)
sallyreiko 1 year ago
Great video. I love the way that this video was made. The explanation about Pidgin Language in Hawaii was also great. I am glad that this video was made so people can understand and realize what the real Hawaii is really like.
dahawaiianguy808 1 year ago
what is the name of the place in the video with the roast duck and manapua - look some `ono!
kananilehua100 1 year ago
My first time in San francisco's china town, I went shop to shop looking for Manapua before fully understanding I was really looking for Char Siu Bao. I was irritated, how come these Chinese dont know what manapua is??? Lol No can help!
kahooilokane 1 year ago
@kahooilokane That's because you were using the Hawaiian word for pork bun. In China town Oakland or S.F., the people there speak Cantonese mainly and don't understand Hawaiian pidgin. Now there are plenty of Hawaiians in the Bay Area so next time ask them to take you to the Pacific Islander store, they're everywhere here and they got everything you want there.
cwell510 1 year ago
I have mixed feelings. Hawaiian is the language of Hawai'i, but I do agree that Pidgin is more commonly spoken & that it's birth came out of the plantation era. I hope those who aren't fully informed are not MISINFORMED. Other than that, I liked this video & the subtitles were a nice touch too. =)
hula96792 1 year ago
loast pork and loast duk , some onos brah, la dat
ed090954 1 year ago
I KNOW MANY HAWAIIANS WHO CAN GO STRAIGHT FROM ENGLISH, ENGLISH TO PIDGIN IN A MILISECOND.
surferphil1 1 year ago
I like this video. It is a really cool video. Thanks for making this video and uploading it for everyone to see.
hawaiianstyleinjapan 1 year ago
manapua = power flower lol, i hope yall get that joke, oh but that look good.... ugh, i want some
Kittman05 1 year ago 8
I love Hawaii and it's culture. It's a true melting pot, not like the continental U.S. where everything is continually dumbed down and whitewashed.
jmlew 1 year ago
Thanks for the explanation. Enjoyed the clip!
flojogrande 1 year ago
my teacher showed us this video in class, and it was a joy to watch.
xVThisMyStoryGVx 1 year ago
...So, instead of hating each other, they learned to communicate. WOW...what a thought!? Amazing. Seriously...I mean. To think that these immigrants that worked on plantations who couldn't speak English, got along. WOW! Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Hawaiian, Korean, Portuguese...holy cow. Can't say that it's because they're all Asian, those countries have had hostile histories with each other...what?
SPAMusubiHalau 1 year ago
@SPAMusubiHalau well, there is a kind of prejudice against white tourists, but that just comes with the territory,
thugsandgangs2 1 year ago
@thugsandgangs2 the unfortunate truth is, you are right. And it shouldn't be that way. You shouldn't easily accept it and say, "It comes with the territory...", and people those who most tourists need to realize that not all tourists are there for malevolent purposes. It's sad, but...it really is all a "BIG MISUNDERSTANDING". And then we have the understanding of cultures, of languages, of history, and who is willing to take the time to do that? Very few, my friend. Very few.
SPAMusubiHalau 1 year ago
@thugsandgangs2 I'll admit, you're right. What's worse is WE are both at fault. You accept it as truth, with the "It comes with the territory..." statement; and I'm a former educator who burnt out, "QUIT" on teens that needed me. Is this a simple perceptive misunderstanding by tourists, or do the locals really hate them? Why? Simple - it's cultural. Just as language can pose a barrier, so does culture. Nothing that a little education can't fix, but it takes time and energy my friend.
SPAMusubiHalau 1 year ago
@SPAMusubiHalau I completely agee 100%, these cultures were brought together unwillingly and under harsh circumstances and got along enough to create a language just to work together and co exist. Phenomenal! Can't say I know of too many other cultures willing to do that out of neccesity or any other reason.
cwell510 1 year ago
hes reading in pidgin, and thats not how it works. you dont read in pidgin, you speak it. its not authentic when the guy is reading it because it is an oral phenomenon. so the rest of the vid is pretty right on. "an den mea'ono pua'a comes manapua'a" is a good example i think. this shows many problems that were encountered when dictionaries or books were conceived of in pidgin. the native white population in royal hawaii spoke Hawaiian at the time. pidgin has been in development since then&still
minus00 2 years ago 10
@minus00 I think that's why it seems soooo mechanical. I mean, even for me personally, the speech changes depending on the feeling & most importantly to whom I'm speaking. It's like asking why did my cousin use "pua'a" vs. "buta" or "babuy" when they know all & use all including PIG. It all depends.
mamoahina 1 year ago