I have a hard time with this word because it could be used for anything and everything. “One word that I have a hard time with in pidgin is Da Kine.

Most beginner have a hard experience with this word and really can never real the true use of it. The word Da Kine, is one that has a plethora of meanings and can be put in place for a word that the user doesn’t know how to say or explain. It’s strange but funny all at the same time.”Ī crucial part of the conversation is when she went to elaborate on a specific Pidgin word that she seems to always get stuck on. I’m starting to use pidgin in my every day talk. I feel like my knowledge about Hawaiian Pidgin is growing more and more each day. All and all it was a good experience to be around them, I learned to listen carefully to what people were saying and it made it easier for me to understand what they were saying. Unfortunately he never got around to understanding them, they ended up teasing him a little bit cause he couldn’t understand them. The funny thing about my experience with pidgin is that after a few days I had to become a translator for my other roommates boyfriend because he couldn’t understand them at all. After a couple days of listening to them and getting to know them understanding them became easier and easier. I also didn’t want to keep asking “what? I didn’t hear you”, when in reality I just couldn’t understand them. I had to really listen to what they were saying so I could carry on a conversation with them. My roommates have grown up their whole lives here so understanding them at first was a little difficult.

“I have had a lot of experience with pidgin these past few months. Somewhere in the conversation she explained to me Two of her roommates happen to be Hawaiian but from two different islands, Oahu and Molokai. I had talked with a mainland friend the other day about her struggle understanding her roommates. An interesting conversation stumbled my way this week.

Hawaiian pidgin 101