Learn Toki Pona!

o kama sona a (Learn!)

This is my series of Toki Pona lessons, Learn Toki Pona! Each lesson is like the chapter of a book: long and detailed, but important. Be patient, learn well, and good luck!

o kama sona mute a (Learn a lot!)

These are extra lessons which don't fit into the main series. They offer more examples and new ways of thinking about Toki Pona. Think of it like endgame content, or bonus levels!

Grammar

• We don't need pi! (updated! 2024-09-05)
• What else can la do?
• pali doesn't* mean do
• Why are taso and kin different around la?
• Why kepeken and not kepeken e
• Transitive Prepositional Phrases: mi lon poki e ilo
• gendern't: not using meli or mije or even tonsi

Translation & Expression

• Conlang Critic opener
• Instead of Phatic Phrases

sitelen toki (scripts)

This is a collection of my scripts for live lessons and my presentations. These are written for me to read from- but they're mostly a transcript, which you can still learn from! Still, the quality isn't the same as the rest of my lessons. You've been warned!

Live Lessons

• (2023-06-17) li, modifiers, seme questions
• (2023-06-24) Literally Jellyfish - Learn Toki Pona! --- On YouTube
• (2023-07-08) e, pi, ijo ala ijo questions
• (2023-09-16) prepositions, la phrases
• (2023-10-21) preverbs, anu seme, mu!
• (2024-02-17) Giving Compliments
• (2024-06-22) Your First Conversation

Presentations

• ale li nanpa on YouTube and its script and its slides
• Everything is Numbers on YouTube and its script and its slides
• ilo wawa lukin
• ilo wawa pi tenpo kama -- on YouTube
• toki pona, tan jan Telakoman

ijo ante (Other Things)

Communities

• ma pona pi toki pona is the busiest community server!
• kama sona is a great place to learn!
• ma toki pona VR is the VRChat community, and my personal favorite!
• ma mun is my own toki pona only server!
• /r/tokipona is a great place to share projects!
• jan pi wile pona taso is on Telegram, great if you don't like Discord!
• toki.social is a Mastodon instance for Toki Pona!

Practice

• lipu tenpo --- lipu kule --- lipu monsuta (zines)
• kalama sin --- seme li sin (podcasts)
• jan Tepo --- jan Lakuse (skits, vlogs)
• jan Telakoman --- jan Astrodonunt (skits, vlogs)
• jan Usawi --- jan Sotan (music!)

Others' lessons

• Toki Pona in 18 minutes by ilo Tani is a brief video rundown of how Toki Pona works for beginners!
• o pilin e toki pona by jan Telakoman is a playlist where you learn by watching and listening. It's a tried-and-true way to become conversational in Toki Pona!
• lipu sona by soweli Tesa is a lesson series like mine, but with much shorter and more focused lessons.
• lipu sona pona by jan Lentan is an older but well thought out lesson series which has been translated into several languages.
• Toki Pona: The Language of Good by jan Sonja is the classic! If you stick with Toki Pona, get one for other speakers you meet to sign!