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by aikidave
Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:41 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: best way to learn?
Replies: 12
Views: 7582

Re: best way to learn?

Hi Koneko, Welcome to toki pona! Some suggestions: Keep a daily journal, in TP. Get a notebook, and every day, write about a half-page of text in TP. You don't have to create original prose or profound poetry, so any text will do. Describe your room, your surroundings, your family, your childhood, n...
by aikidave
Thu Jan 06, 2011 10:05 am
Forum: jan pi toki pona
Topic: Census: jan ale pi toki pona
Replies: 9
Views: 8151

Re: Census: jan ale pi toki pona

tp Name, Name, Country, L1, L2's

jan Tawita, Dave Raftery (aka aikidave), USA, English

TP website: https://aiki.pbworks.com/w/page/1594805/Toki-Pona
TP blog: http://sites.google.com/site/tokiponadave/
by aikidave
Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:30 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: kulupu toki lon tomo pi ma tomo
Replies: 3
Views: 2659

kulupu toki lon tomo pi ma tomo

tenpo suno pini la mi tawa kulupu toki lon tomo pi ma tomo mi. jan mute lili li toki. mije pali li wile pali e tomo pali sin. mije li wile awen e telo ike lon tomo sin. tomo kama li poka telo. jan pi ma tomo li moku e telo ni. kulupu lawa li wile pilin sama tawa lipu pali. mije li wile pali kepeken ...
by aikidave
Mon Jan 10, 2011 5:34 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: kulupu toki lon tomo pi ma tomo
Replies: 3
Views: 2659

Re: kulupu toki lon tomo pi ma tomo

Thanks for the helpful comments. Here is my 1st revision: tenpo suno pini la mi tawa kulupu toki lon tomo pi ma tomo mi. jan pi ma tomo pi mute lili li toki. jan pali esun li wile pali e tomo pali sin. jan pali esun li wile awen e telo ike lon tomo sin. jan pi ma tomo mi li moku e telo ike ni la jan...
by aikidave
Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:30 am
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: how to say "exercise"
Replies: 2
Views: 2315

how to say "exercise"

mi pali wawa e sijelo mi. <-- I powerfully work my body.
mi pali musi e sijelo mi. <-- I recreationally work my body.
mi wawa e sijelo mi. <-- I make my body strong, I strengthen my body.

seme li pilin sina?
by aikidave
Wed Jan 12, 2011 11:34 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: How many hours to learn toki pona?
Replies: 5
Views: 4050

Re: How many hours to learn toki pona?

Looking back on my notes, it took me about 40 days to memorize all the words and make my way through jan Pie's lessons, repeating them as necessary, until I understood them. I spent on average, about 45 minutes per day studying toki pona, so that means it took me about 30 hours to 'learn' toki pona....
by aikidave
Tue Feb 22, 2011 5:54 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: best way to learn?
Replies: 12
Views: 7582

Re: best way to learn?

The basic structure of a toki pona sentence is:

Condition la Subject li Verb e Object Prepositional-Phrase, where P-P is adverbial.

The Condition before the subject, the Object and the P-P are optional.
The Subject and Verb are required.
by aikidave
Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:21 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: ma tawa lon ma Nijon
Replies: 3
Views: 2662

ma tawa lon ma Nijon

ijo wawa li pakala e ma Nijon. ma li tawa wawa. tomo mute li pakala. sinpin telo suli kin li tawa sewi ma. telo ni li moli e jan mute. telo ni li tawa e tomo e tomo tawa e tomo tawa telo. jan lawa li lukin e jan weka. ma Mewika li tawa e tomo tawa telo suli tawa ma Nijon. tomo tawa telo ni li jo e t...
by aikidave
Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:33 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: ma tawa lon ma Nijon
Replies: 3
Views: 2662

Re: ma tawa lon ma Nijon

Thanks for the comments.
I need to learn the new words such as alasa !
Yes, I definitely got the 'lon' backwards.
I like to use sinpin as 'wall' in addition to it's other meanings, and supa as 'horizontal surface'.
by aikidave
Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:00 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: Draft one of toki pona lesson for twitter
Replies: 17
Views: 10239

Re: Draft one of toki pona lesson for twitter

Great idea. Great start. It is going to take me some time to wade thru this, but here are my comments so far: > #tokipona Grammar. toki pona is an analytic, isolating language. Its all phrases and 1 morpheme per word. Will the general reader know what these words mean? What do you mean by all phrase...