Spoken Hawaiian - Hardcoverby Samuel H. Elbert (Author) This Hawaiian language text, intended for self learning as well as classroom use, presents the principal conversational and grammatical patterns of the language in 67 lessons, each containing English Hawaiian dialogues. Emphasis is given to idiomatic speech, and a vocabulary of approximately 800 words, selected on the basis of frequency of usage and cultural importance, is introduced. The frequent humor of the lessons