learning hawaiian as a second language stubby no citations if when improved it can be put back in the article when trying to learn hawaiian as a second language without a competent teacher and without native speakers of hawaiian as models english speaking learners might mispronounce hawaiian words by using english values for the letters also learners might not be aware that one cannot simply replace the english words in an english sentence with hawaiian words as a way to create a hawaiian sentence hawaiian and english have important differences in the order of words in a phrase and the order of phrases in a sentence reviving hawaiian as a first language stubby no citations if when improved it can be put back in the article there is a certain tension between those who would revive a purist hawaiian as spoken in the early th century and those who grew up speaking a colloquial hawaiian shaped by more than one hundred years of contact with english and pidgin