Alicia Rozet (aliciap@hawaii.edu)

Hawaiian language instructor, UH-Mānoa

“Yuzing Pidgin foh teech Hawaiian to mainland an loco keedz alike”

If you “get” da kine frazes laik “nice yoa slippahs”, “watchu ste doing” owa da suddotees between “haaaaah?!” an “foh reeelz!” owa between “dat gai” an “dat friken gai”- den bahleeve it owa naht you won stepp closah to lerning an undahstanding simpo struktchas and frazes in da Hawaiian language, da ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi nō hoʻi. In dis preezentashun you’ll lern hau we ste yuzing um foh teech Hawaiian to mainland an loco keedz alike.

Bio: Ali is an instructor of Hawaiian language at Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She received her BA in History and her MA in Hawaiian from UH Mānoa. Pidgin has been very helpful to her in the classroom, where she teaches beginning Hawaiian levels 101, 102 and 201.

Handout: https://goo.gl/u9r5r3