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Summary

I was always fond of learning new languages, got to learn Spanish and English at school. Those were tedious to learn and tend to take a long time to get used to and perfect the usage. With time, I ended up loosing most of my Spanish and daily-using the English, but I was always thirsty of learning new languages. The issue was that having engineering studies and then a full time job doesn't let me a lot of time to have a professor in a new language. But non the less, I've tried some other languages, Russian, Japanese, Portuguese and no cigar. But one day while I was doom-scrolling on Youtube, I've ended up looking a video of a random developer that was sharing it's process of making a quiz for a language that I have no idea it existed. Toki pona. And this is about this language that I want to talk you about. It's name can be translated by the language of good, and what caught my attention was it's small learning curve and it's simplicity, it's dictionary is composed of 131 words as the date of today.

short history

The language was created in 2001 by Sonja Lang a linguist and translator whilst she were is depression. The language is minimalist by design and offers wide variations of writing is making it a fun language.

learning process

I was surprised how many references and instructional there was on a language that doesn't have that many interlocutors. The thing is that since it has the same ideas as the Esperanto and it's words origins are wider spread, a lot of persons have found interest in it through time. Some of the main resources I've found allowed me to learn the basic vocabulary in the span of a week and a half. Here is some of my recommendations if the adventure tempts you : – wasona : A simple but mostly complete site that allows you to learn how to form sentences and learn the words in an interactive manner. This site is available in multiple languages (and french was there !!!) – jan Kekan San's courses : An English Toki Pona teacher that provides well made lessons that allow you to form vague sentences to conversations with more complex and precise subjects. – The Toki Pona android APK : This one is good to train vocabulary or search for pre-made sentences, I've seen it being more and more complete with features.

mi tawa.