A 123-Word Language That Can Be Learned In Under A Week
And its creator hopes it can help you chill.
https://archive.is/4qxYv
#TokiPona #article #lipu_sitelen #anno2019 (estimate)
Two Facebook reactions:
Kobi Kai Calev
between 4 and 6 weeks, of real usage - I'd say. I think toki-pona is (also) a great language learning étude, it helped me see, how fast I acquire vocabulary, how each grammar point changes my application of the language; and it's useful to this day.
some of Sonjaaa's older online publications - were really inspirational at the time, very idiosyncratic, 'teenage-like', fresh and raw. we're very lucky to have this language around. it went through enough iterations in the real world to be forged into a real language, and not just a bunch of unintuitive contradictory rules, etc.
Paul Bartlett
Different individuals learn at different rates and have varying amounts of time to devote to learning. Therefore, it seems to me to be a little out of bounds to tell someone, "You can learn this language in X amount of time," although it might be legitimate to assert that TP can be learned in general in less time than some other constructed languages.
