Da Hawaiian Pidgin Project

This project was so much fun for me that it didn't even feel like homework! I have not laughed that hard in such a long time the way I did while trying to develop the perfect accent to go along with our dialect. I just wanted to preface this by saying that I really did truly enjoy this project. With that said, it helped me understand a little more about just how hard it could be to teach a child who has grown up speaking a different dialect as their first language. After looking at how completely contrasting Hawaiian pidgin is from standard english it definitely gave me a reality check on how tough it would be to get a student to gradually slip into what seems to them to be a completely different language. However, it also showed me that learning and teaching other dialects can be fun! Before this project I was a little confused on how I would teach kindergarteners what a dialect even is, let alone how to make it fun in a way they would understand. But after seeing how much I myself enjoyed learning about the different dialects it gave me a new boost of excitement to teach others.