toki pona

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Toki Pona is a philosophical artistic constructed language known for its small vocabulary. It was created by Canadian linguist and translator Sonja Lang for the purpose of simplifying thoughts and communication. It was first published online in 2001 as a draft, and later in complete form in the book Toki Pona: The Language of Good in 2014. A small community of speakers developed in the early 2000s. While activity mostly takes place online in chat rooms, on social media, and in other groups, there were a few organized in-person meetings during the 2000s and 2010s.

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My toki pona guide:

Learning the language

jan Lentan's lessons. By far the best guide for learning the language.
jan Misali's 12 days of toki pona. Not as good as jan Lentan's lessons, but serves as a speedy introduction to the vocab.

Vocabulary

Download a client for the spaced-repetition software, Anki.
- AnkiDroid for Android
Shared Deck of all the current popular words (~137 words as of 2022, known as pu + nimi ku suli).
Shared Deck of all the phrases from jan Lentan's lessons.
You can find other shared decks here.

Listening / Fluency

Youtube channel - ma pi toki pona . Has lots of fluent speakers having conversations about different topics.

Other resources

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

linku.la is also an amazing dictionary for all the less common words, check it out!