toki pona - Lemmy
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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.

I saw some post were some people said they know how to speak Toki Pona so I decided to create a community!

  • SFloss (they/them)
    4·
    4 years ago

    Geez Dessalines how many languages do you know? This has got to be like the fifth or sixth.

    • DessalinesMA
      61·
      4 years ago

      haha I’m a language noob, just english, like 50% spanish, 90% toki pona, and learning chinese but at the very beginning stages…

      You’re probably thinking of @nutomic@lemmy.ml, he speaks english, german, and is very close to fluency in spanish that I know of.

      • nutomicMA
        6·
        4 years ago

        My Spanish is still pretty bad when it comes to talking and listening, cause covid doesn’t give me much opportunity to practice :(

        • ghost_laptopOP
          3·
          4 years ago

          Do you speak German fluently? Maybe I could teach you Spanish and you German.

          • nutomicMA
            6·
            4 years ago

            Yes its my mother tongue. But I dont think I would be good at teaching it, cause I couldnt explain any of the grammar or such.

            • ghost_laptopOP
              3·
              4 years ago

              Oh, that is bad. I thought the same about Spanish until I started teaching it, my recommendation if you ever are interested is to find a textbook and start going over a few lessons before the class

              • nutomicMA
                3·
                4 years ago

                I’m fine with it, thats how it works for most people in their native language after all. And I dont want to be a language teacher, neither do I like grammar at all.

      • ghost_laptopOP
        4·
        4 years ago

        I am a native Spanish speaker, I am very confident with English (I think I’m a B2) and I’ve been learning German (A2) and Italian (A1) for two years now. Now om Toki Pona, I would like to go for Latin once I am more familiar with German and Italian.

        Excuse me, I like bragging, lol.

        • Adda
          2·
          4 years ago

          Latin is incredibly interesting and eye-opening to study and learn. I would also add Antic mythology and history to the pack and you will be surprised just how many aspects of the mundane day are affected by Latin and/or Antic wisdom or society. Ancient Greek is great to expand your knowledge of certain terms and terminology in general too.

        • DessalinesMA
          2·
          4 years ago

          I haven’t started the characters yet, but I love so many things about the language.