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Thanks ! I used Plover

I have created a plugin for toki pona, I will publish it when its finished.

More details:

I use a Minidox with QMK programmed to use the TX Bolt protocol. But the plugin can work with any NKRO keyboard.

The terminal is Cool Retro Term running tmux, a script to show the keys I press and Kakoune to edit text.

There’s multiple user-made courses for toki pona. I don’t think mobile allows you join user created courses using their app, but once you’ve joined online, it will show up in the app.
Here’s the one with just the words: https://www.memrise.com/course/39856/toki-pona-complete/
You should probably also read over the grammar, but memrise is a good tool for memorizing the vocab.

You can buy both the physical book and the kindle version on amazon https://www.amazon.ca/Toki-Pona-Language-Sonja-Lang/dp/0978292308/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=toki+pona&qid=1611169693&sr=8-1

toki pona is on tatoeba and Glosbe although the translations are often unreliable. I wouldn't suggest beginners use dictionaries like these but they do exist.
(There is a toki pona speaker who was recently given permissions or something on tatoeba to edit/flag incorrect sentences so hopefully that will help improve the quality also)

You could write toki pona in the emoji script. It’s really popular on the internet.

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(It’s kinda just me but I’m promoting it lol) App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ourdhi.sitelenemoji

I have also found that the Toki Pona Pal app works well in a pinch.

However, it is certainly not a language learning app - more like a quick reference if you are already familiar with the language and have an idea of what it is you're looking for.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Moosader.TokiPonaPal

Er, not yet? Some nice people have brought some information together for me: https://hackmd.io/w1_Oc6paQ5qt3niID-S6sQ But I would need to find the time to actually learn stuff =D

the toki pona dictionary (also known as ku) includes a set of 17 non-pu words (nimi ku suli) that were (mostly) used by at least half of the surveyed members of ma pona pi toki pona: namako, kin, oko, kipisi, leko, monsuta, tonsi, jasima, kijetesantakalu, soko, meso, epiku, kokosila, lanpan, n, misikeke, and ku

though there are some caveats to that:

• ma pona is more accepting of nimisin than other communities, or at least was back then
• some of these words might've since fallen out of fashion depending on who you ask, e.g. jasima, epiku, kokosila
• the sample size was tiny, around a dozen responses per english prompt on average

Maybe using the "pi" particle would make the meaning more clear, as the comment below me said so. The "pi" particle separates modificators, so you know which adjective belongs to which word. Please, look it up for a better explanation, I know it can be confusing.

Also, you're doing good! Maybe what you need is to familiarize yourself with commonly used terms along the toki pona community to convey more specific ideas. For example: "tenpo pini" = "The past". "tenpo suno pini" = The day that is in the past (Or simply yesterday). Add as many adjectives as you want.

So, please take it easy, have fun learning the vocabulary and continue when you feel like doing so. There is a game that helped me a lot for this:

https://www.notion.so/Toki-Pona-828819282d5d43fea5db5f18d273944a#d34b6bceaa524ed19ab08d724421c439

Choose "sitelen pona" for a small description of almost every sitelen pona character and immeadiate recognition excercises. I reccommend learning vocabulary with sitelen pona because that way you can relate the character to its meanings, and that could make it easier, but see what works best for you!

In my experience LibreOffice Writer works best for sitelen pona fonts. Especially the fonts that use contextual lookups (for compound characters and such) or other more fancy OpenType features. It's open source, and there's free downloads over here.

MS Word has contextual lookups disabled by default, except for specific scripts like Arabic that need it to work properly. Formally, this behavior is recommended for all programs, but LibreOffice developers apparently didn't listen to the recommendation, which is only better for our purposes.

There's also this. It's probably also not exactly what you're looking for, but it could be good for the kind of organized learning you want. (although I think by the time you buy it and it arrives, you might have already advanced past the level that it's made for)

I've honestly wondered the same thing.

Don't think this is what they're using in that demo, but I use "QuickEdit" on the android app store, which lets you change fonts and (I think?) support open type features for SP fonts.

https://www.amazon.com/Toki-Pona-Language-Sonja-Lang/dp/0978292308/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=33BVCHJBX0CG1&keywords=toki+pona+the+language+of+good&qid=1651291577&sprefix=toki+pona+%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-1

You need to use a sitelen pona font. In the video I've got linja pona loaded as a custom font in QuickEdit

There are several courses on memrise. This one, for instance, but search toki pona yourself and see if there are other courses you feel more drawn to :)

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I use hyphens instead of asterisks because as you've probably noticed, I'm already using a lot of them.

I wasn't sure about supporting capitalized words, but as it's a tool for beginners it does make sense to do so.

"oko" came from the translation of "examine" on Glosbe: https://glosbe.com/en/mis_tok/examine

"lukin" doesn't translate to "examine": https://glosbe.com/mis_tok/en/lukin

Is the translation on Glosbe just not up to date? If "lukin" is preferred and means the same as "oko", I'll happily use that. I'll use imperative, that makes sense too.

One question: how would you say "edit" in toki pona? "o ante"?

Thanks!

Too bad Crowdin does not support Toki Pona. I did requests for other languages on Crowdin before, even another constructed language, and most of my requests were accepted. But currently all their languages have official ISO codes (except for Pirate/LOLCAT), so I am not sure if they would also add Toki Pona.

At least we can try by adding the idea here.

EDIT: Hmm, we could also ask a Reddit admin who manages the Crowdin platform to add Toki Pona as a 'custom language'.

That's a bit tougher. Here is the official translation project. Now, I cannot find anywhere to propose a new language, so I have sent a message to the managers of the project. I would invite you, and anyone else who is interested, to do the same.

This memrise course is good because it has audio: https://www.memrise.com/course/352694/speak-toki-pona-with-audio/

I don’t think the vocab will really take a whole week, but it depends on your pace.

For the grammar, if you can get the book you should.
If you can’t, the second best right now is probably jan Pije’s lessons, although there are just a few things about his use that are a bit outdated.

And joining a toki pona chat group like on Telegram or Discord will further help with practicing using the language.

Besides jan Pije's course. Memrise has a good course to help with memorizing the vocab. It uses the same 'traditional' semantics as jan Pije.

sina o kama pona lon ma pi toki pona !

You be welcome in the land of Toki Pona !

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I've learned the root word vocabulary using Memrise - https://www.memrise.com/course/39856/toki-pona-complete/

creating some mems in the process I'm still proud about ...

I think I have the most “standard” Toki Pona accent possible. Don't get me wrong, there is no better or worse pronunciations of Toki Pona, but I know natively how to make each phoneme like described in Sonja Lang's book.

I'm from Spain, and Spanish has all these phonemes, except we don't use “w” (/w/) and “j” (/j/) like consonants, but I pronounce /w/ perfectly since it's not very difficult and I speak English, and we make a kind of /j/ but voiced. First, I failed at trying not to voice it, but it wasn't that hard.

I've recorded myself reading “kulupu jan tenpo”, by jan Misali, aloud, if you are interested on hearing my accent. This link will stop working in seven days. https://www.filemail.com/d/zxiqpluckbjwapt

>Which book is it with the Apocrypha are you reading? Many years ago I read The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels and I need to re-read that. https://www.amazon.com/Gnostic-Gospels-Modern-Library-Nonfiction-ebook/dp/B000RH0DSU

I found a book called simply "The Lost Books of the Bible," published by Testament Books. Many of the books I own are from either goodwill (the store) or free book carts at my local library, picked out of interest rather than learning what books are good to buy and then buying them.

https://www.amazon.de/Kleiner-Besuch-Tom-Bleek-ebook/dp/B07DKFFYJF there's also a bilingual (toki-pona/german) novel that's quite charming. (Toki Pona knowledge not strictly required for it).

I love the official book but after going through it I definitely used Memrise to learn all the words and whatever material I could find online.

A very nice app I know to learn esperanto is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.esperanto.learn It is based on the website https://learn.esperanto.com/ and allows to choose the native language. I think this is a nice way to pana sona, using the tp'76.

There are some other apps… like "toki utala" from u/increpatio, that helps to learn vocab and glyphs. Toki pona pals offers some tools and a dictionary.

It's possible that you have tried learning Toki Pona just by learning individual words. But you also need to learn the grammar of the language, since the grammar dictates the relationships between the words in a sentence.

The official book by Sonja and Pije's lessons cover everything you need.

sina ken esun tan ma Amason.

https://www.amazon.com/Toki-Pona-Stories-akesi-seli/dp/B087RGBT1S/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_1/130-1881816-0486727?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B087RGBT1S&pd_rd_r=f401f84c-1dc3-4c8a-adbf-4948faba8d36&pd_rd_w=PRcoN&pd_rd_wg=9G7l8&pf_rd_p=692222...