Toki Pona for Socialists

24 readers

2 users here now

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!

For more information check out:

founded 8 months ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

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

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm learning Arabic. My biggest issue there is finding resources for Levantine Arabic which I'm learning. I'm mostly learning Standard Arabic but want to focus on the dialect. For me culture and language are the same, so very important. I really enjoyed an Arabic TV show about the life of Omar ibn al-Khattab called Farouk Omar. It taught me a lot about early Islamic and it is a beautiful show as a whole as well. I also enjoy the music of Fairouz, Kadim al-Sahir and Akher Zapheer. I have not watched an Arabic movie yet but there are some that are on my IMDB and Netflix watch lists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

So I'm not sure if this is any good, but I thought I had stumbled onto a resource before to do with Arabic dialects and I'm also not sure this is the one I found before, but it does have Levantine as one of the dialects that it focuses on: https://talkinarabic.com/levantine/

Also found this while searching, which seems more of a formal study course than the other one: https://www.levantineonline.com/levantine-dialect