You know you are talking to a real local, when the person greets you with pidgin, sounding something like this: “how zit brah.” It’s like a New Yorker says “I’m talking”, or how they say “y’all” in the south.
In Hawaii, you will see more Hawaiian in signs and street names, but what you’ll hear more, is a creole english dialect that we locals call Pidgin. If someone asks how old your children are, you can say “my keikis are 7 and 5”. If you have children with you, the word for “children” is “keiki” in Hawaiian. While at a restaurant next time, if your waiter or waitress asks if you are done, you can answer “yes i’m all pau!” Next time you try some delicious local food, you can say “oh! dis kine kau kau so ono!” The next word is “pau”. Ono means delicious and yummy in Hawaiian. Let me help you add a few more Hawaiian words to your list. You already know a few words - like aloha and mahalo. Second, vowels a, e, i, o, u, are pronounced ah eh ee oh oo in Hawaiian. During your stay in Kauai, have you had a chance to try and say a few Hawaiian words? Don’t feel intimidated Hawaiian is actually not that hard if you just know a few rules.įirst, everything is pronounced phonetically, and there are no silent vowels.
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