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MilkMachine
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New to Toki Pona

Post by MilkMachine »

Hope this is the right place to put this.
I have known about Toki Pona for a while and have always been a little interested in it. I really think it is a neat idea. I am just wondering how active is it? At first glance it doesn't really seem "alive". Does the wiki still get updated? Is there a book?
Also how do i get started? Is there an in depth explanation about it(this is where a book would come in handy).
Even if it is not so "alive" I am still very interested and your help is appreciated. Thanks!
Kuti
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Re: New to Toki Pona

Post by Kuti »

kama pona :P

You say it does not seems alive, but it is. We have this forum, a chatroom on Freenode, and a twitter.
http://en.tokipona.org/wiki/IRC_chat
http://tokilili.shoutem.com/
There is no book yet, but there are plenty of fan sites like this one : http://tokipona.net/tp/
Toki pona is stil alive, last year jan Sonja has made new words, as you can see at the end of this page http://www.unilang.org/viewtopic.php?f= ... a&start=45
Some other definitions were updated last year http://en.tokipona.org/w/index.php?name ... entChanges

If vous want to learn the langage there are lessons on the site of jan Pije http://bknight0.myweb.uga.edu/toki/lesson/lesson0.html
Some other sites have already tranlated them into other languages.

mi wile e ni: toki pona li pona tawa sina ;)
janMato
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Personally, I like the lesson set on this page better than the jan Pije lessons:

http://rowa.giso.de/languages/toki-pona ... essons.php

It's about 100 pages printed. I think the above lessons chronologically falls somewhere in between the original jan Sonja lessons & the later jan Pije lessons.

Akidave's translation of Elizar's lessons are also highly recommended and can be printed in book format, although each page is kind of low density (which can be good initially)

https://files.pbworks.com/download/dUIL ... nglish.pdf

I use "social mention", a google search alert & RSS feeds for the 20-30 toki pona sites that support RSS. In general, something happens somewhere in toki pona land every day, but every day is a slow news day.
janKipo
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Post by janKipo »

As for the best way to learn: while the various lesson books supply details, they stick better if you learn them by experience. That is, the best way to learn tp is to write (we can't alas get a speaking community yet) a bit every day. Start with twitters on tokilili. You will get corrected a lot, but you will learn faster from that. Also, there is a considerable corpus of texts to read as well. I am of the total immersion school here.
jan Akesimun
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Re: New to Toki Pona

Post by jan Akesimun »

o kama pona. :)

jan Kipo o. lipu sona ni li seme? mi sona taso e lipu pi jan Pije e lipu sona majuna.
Yo estuve aquí.
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lipu pi jan Kipo li lon ni: http://tpnimi.blogspot.com
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Re: New to Toki Pona

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jan Mato also has most of the material that has appeared in tp on the old list and these forums, but I forget his address for it.
jan Akesimun
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Re: New to Toki Pona

Post by jan Akesimun »

a. pona. :)
Yo estuve aquí.
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