STANFORD2011
R1798: o kama sona e toki pona lon tenpo lili!
Difficulty: **
Teachers: Seth Schoen
“Learn Toki Pona Quickly!”
Toki Pona, which means “Good Language” or “Simple Language”, is an invented language made up by a Canadian translator named Sonja Elen Kisa. She created Toki Pona to explore her philosophy of simplicity.
It has only about 120 words, but it’s amazingly possible to talk about lots of things in Toki Pona, by combining words in inventive ways (for example, using the words for fight-person, love-male, cold-box. bird-parent-ball, air-travel-tool to mean ‘soldier’, ‘boyfriend’, ‘refrigerator’, ‘egg’, and ‘airplane’). However, it’s definitely less precise than other languages you might be used to.
Toki Pona is one of a huge number of usable spoken languages that have been made up by somebody (there might be a separate Splash class about those languages and the process of inventing a language).
Toki Pona is probably the second most widely spoken language made up from scratch by a single person who’s still alive today. (The first is Klingon.)
Because Toki Pona is so simple and the vocabulary is so small, we can learn a lot of it in a short time and try to have some conversations or translate things.
Meeting Time
Section 1: Sun 10:00am--11:45am
Grades
9 - 12
Enrollment
Section 1: 3 (max 12)
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