Toki Pona for Socialists

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This is a Toki Pona community for socialists to chat, make art, and share their experiences with the Toki Pona constructed language!

Toki Pona is a philosophical artistic constructed language created by Sonja Lang in 2001. It is designed for talking about things by explaining them in simple terms. When the first official book released it had only 120 words, and since then has expanded to somewhere around 140 words!

As of the 2022 Toki Pona census there was around 1800+ speakers of the language. It's primarily spoken online and is considered one of the most popular conlangs (constructed languages) in the world.

Despite being a constructed language Toki Pona is a real language and is recognized by several institutions around the world!

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Language Learners Thread - 10/28/24 (lemmygrad.ml)

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Hello! nǐ hǎo! toki! Saluton!

Did you know? In Cuba, after the 1959 revolution language education became a priority as part of a broader effort to promote literacy and social equality. The government launched the "Cuban Literacy Campaign," which not only focused on teaching Spanish but also on other languages like Russian or French. Learning these languages was viewed as essential for fostering international solidarity with other countries and enhancing Cuba’s engagement in global affairs.

Here’s some questions for you beloved language learners! Feel free to answer as few or as many as you want in your native tongue or your target language!

What are some challenges you face while learning your target language? How do you overcome them?
How important is it for you to learn about the culture surrounding your target language?
What movies, songs, or books in your target language have you enjoyed?

And here are the same links as last thread!

The Esperanto page on ProleWiki

Official Esperanto website

Official Toki Pona website

The Toki Pona wiki

Anki, #1 source for digital flashcards

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

So, as an Eireannach duine (I denounce ameriKKKa and I don't like its culture too much its too much yelling and being all around odd and I plan to move out to my relative's home country of Eire or until the revolution happens which then I plan to try helping then leaving back to Eire), I really have a problem finding anyone to talk to in it to better myself at it only having duolingo. I want to get better at it and learn other languages like

(I have a lot I want to learn so get ready and most either endangered or dead)

(Not considering irish thats already stated) Scottish gallic, Manx, Cornish, Breton, Welsh, Modern Gaulish, Phoenician, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Assyrian, Farsi, Sumerian, Latin, and Gothic.

MOST I CANT SPEAK TO OTHERS WITH WHO AM I FINDING TO SPEAK PHOENICIAN TO? HANNIBAL? HE IS D E A D!!!

anyway the easiest for me to learn is Russian because gf is Russian but I'm dying inside with having no one to speak Eire with at least T ^ T

Also for the culture I'm an Irish pagan, I wear a Triskelion 24/7, I know IN DETAIL the history of Ireland and the Celts in general from both Galicias in Anatolia and Iberia to Cisalpine and Scotland. Literally from the Halstatt culture to modern day I know a lot. for the others I'm a big history nerd and my gf is Russian so I wanna know it for her but idc much about Russian history too much I'm not too interested in it as much as Middle Eastern Iron age or bronze age history, Chinese history, the Gothic invasion of the imperial Romans, and satanistic chants to scream at people to make them think I'm possessed:3

Also for movies I WISH I HAD ACCESS TO THEM GIMME SOME GAEILGE MOVIES