jan Kekan San
Interjections, mu, a! - Learn Toki Pona! Lesson 8 (no music)
updated
lipu open li ni: xkcd.com/2977
https://mun.la/sona
https://mun.la/sona
tenpo suli weka la mi musi Seta. taso, mi pini ala e musi. mi o pini e musi lon tenpo ni.
pona tawa len len a!
tenpo suli weka la mi musi Seta. taso, mi pini ala e musi. mi o pini e musi.
musi ni li sama ni:
musi Halo tu en musi Halo tu wan li wan
musi ni li sama ni:
musi Halo tu en musi Halo tu wan li wan
musi ni li sama ni:
musi Halo tu en musi Halo tu wan li wan
o lukin e lipu mi: https://mun.la/lipu/tomo-pi-walo-loje
tenpo weka suli la jan li toki e musi pi walo loje tawa mi. ni li wile e tenpo suli la mi kute e ale. sina kin o kute e musi pi walo loje.
pona tawa jan Tekinowi tan sitelen open!
pona tawa jan Sa tan sitelen pini.
o lukin e lipu mi: https://mun.la/lipu/jan-pi-ma-nu-olin
o lukin e lipu tan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axeman_of_New_Orleans
o toki pona! tan mi: https://mun.la/sona
o kulupu!: https://mun.la/kulupu
musi ni li wawa.
taso nasin tawa mi li nasa la mi tawa nasa lon tenpo. len len en mi li alasa e pakala li kama lukin e ona lon pini musi :P musi kama la mi tawa pona.
These works come from a thought:
How can I make more things in Toki Pona, but also make things for people not already in Toki Pona? The answer was to do something that interests me, in both Toki Pona and in English!
But doing that wasn't easy. Usually, when you change one group of words into another group of words, the words get weird, like looking at a person wearing too-tight clothes and they don't like it. I came up with a way to fix that. The words, I mean.
When changing Toki Pona into English, I only used the most used words in English. Writing this way feels very like Toki Pona! You have small, simple ideas. You give them to your friend. You help your friend put those simple ideas together. And then you have one big idea!
Except, writing like this is very hard in English! In Toki Pona, I can use every word I know. But in English, I know a lot of words I can't use! And I keep using them! Help!
But harder than that was actually writing both of these and keeping their meaning the same! I spent longer on this than any of my other works, and it still feels really short. 9 minutes is fine, right?
Also, once I finished writing, I wasn't sure what to do for the part you see. So I made a small picture book and wrote more on it. Then I went through the whole thing once in Toki Pona and did it again in English, cleaned up, and here we are. I hope you liked it! I want to make more and better ones too.
Thanks to jan Telakoman and his words here, which showed me what you can do with the same writing in two different word groups: joelthomastr.github.io/tokipona/pana-sona-ale_en
Thanks to Randall Munroe for his book about how we got to space, which also uses only the most used English words! I wonder if he would like Toki Pona? xkcd.com/1133
And thank you for everything you do :)
Fun fact: In what you're reading now, the only words that aren't used by everyone are the names people, things, or are words in Toki Pona!
pali ni li kama tan pilin ni:
seme la mi ken pali e ijo pi toki pona, li ken pana e ona tawa jan pi toki pona ala? mi kama sona e ni: mi ken pali wile, lon toki pona lon toki Inli!
taso ni li pali mute. tenpo mute la sina ante e toki la nimi li kama nasa sama ni: jan li jo e len, taso len li jo ike e jan tan lili len. jan li pilin ike tan ni a! taso, mi kama sona e nasin pona tawa ni. a, tawa pona nimi.
mi ante e toki pona tawa toki Inli la mi kepeken nimi ni taso: jan pi mute nanpa wan li kepeken. sina sitelen kepeken nasin ni la pilin ni li sama toki pona! sina sona e ijo lili. sina pana e sona pi ijo lili tawa jan poka. sina pana e sona ni tawa jan poka: seme la ijo lili li ken wan? ni li pini la ona li sona pona e ijo suli!
taso, nasin sitelen ni li nasa ike lon toki Inli! toki pona la, mi ken kepeken nimi ale lon sona mi. toki Inli la nimi mute li lon sona mi, taso mi ken ala kepeken ona! mi awen kepeken ona tan pakala! aaaaaa!
taso, ni kama li pali suli a tawa ni pini: mi pana e sitelen tu li sama e sona ona! mi pali lon tenpo suuuuuli a, lon tenpo suli tawa pali ante ale. taso pali ni li awen lili tawa mi. tenpo ilo luka tu tu li pona ala pona?
kin la, mi pana e sitelen ale la, mi sona ala e ni: mi pana e seme tawa lukin? ni la mi wan e sitelen lili mute li pana e toki tawa sitelen ni li pana e ona tawa sina. ni la mi pali sin lon toki pona lon toki Inli li alasa wan e sona. wile mi la pali ni li pona tawa sina! mi wile pali e ijo sin, e ijo wawa lon tenpo kama.
pona tawa jan Telakoman tawa sitelen ona. ona li pana e sona ni tawa mi: seme li ken wawa tan sitelen wan pi toki tu? joelthomastr.github.io/tokipona/pana-sona-ale_en
pona tawa jan Randall Munroe tan lipu ni: seme la jan li tawa mun suli? lipu ni kin li kepeken nimi pi mute nanpa wan taso! ken la toki pona kin li pona tawa ona! xkcd.com/1133
sina pona tan pali ale sina :)
Learn Toki Pona with us, because it's fun! https://mun.la/kulupu
This is a mini lesson all about expression, creativity, and Jellyfish, thought up during a Toki Pona VR meetup that went to an aquarium! Many learners get stuck on how to express themselves when complex specific ideas come up. Break it down! And we're going to look at this idea by looking at one of the creatures that ever, the jellyfish, as an educational tool to help us toward expressing ourselves.
If you're interested in starting your own language learning journey, then this video and my many other lessons are for you!
So let's get started! We'll be learning Toki Pona in this mini lesson!
Thanks to jan Tekinowi for the thumbnail!
Thanks to jan Sa for the subtitles!
pona mute tawa jan Tepo youtube.com/@tbodt tan toki pona ona!
pona mute tawa kili Temeke tan ni kin: ona li sin e sona pi musi ni
youtube.com/watch?v=4sZuN0xXWLc
Check out the fanart because it's AMAZING: https://mun.la/fanart
An intro Esperanto lesson covering all the basic pronouns. Long overdue, as Esperanto is obviously the better constructed language. Everyone knows it!
Thumbnail and Avatar by jan Tekinowi: twitter.com/Thelxinoe5
Subtitles by jan Sa
#esperanto #teaching #pronouns #lesson1 #aprilfools
Learn Toki Pona with us, because it's fun! https://mun.la/kulupu
This is a collection of mini lessons, originally given in a much different form for the Toki Pona VR community! This features an explanation of multiple li, multiple e, both working together, then the new grammar words en and anu!
Thumbnail by Nyxoom: ko-fi.com/nyxoomdraws
Subtitles by jan Sa
#teaching #tokipona #lesson10 #li #e #en #anu #grammar
jan Wali li pana e sitelen mi! ko-fi.com/vallee152
o lukin e ijo mi! https://mun.la
Learn Toki Pona with us, because it's fun! discord.gg/ChC6qtVsSE
This is a slightly clipped up recording of a live lesson I did for the kama sona Discord server! The goal was to participate in mun pi ante toki, ma pona's translation month, and turn it into a teachable moment. It went well!
#teaching #tokipona #translation #project #event
mi kalama e ona! https://mun.la/
Learn Toki Pona with us, because it's fun! https://mun.la/kulupu
No music version: youtu.be/ozqygxEvSnE
This is a collection of mini lessons, originally given in a much different form for the Toki Pona VR community! This version features explanations of two name writing systems, how numbers work, and how "kin" works. It's lot of little stuff, but these hold Toki Pona together more than you'd think!
Thumbnail by Nyxoom: ko-fi.com/nyxoomdraws
Subtitles by jan Sa
#teaching #tokipona #lesson9 #names #numbers #kin
kin la o lukin e pali ona! youtu.be/LUzSWW40WC8
https://mun.la/
mi kalama e ona! https://mun.la/
Learn Toki Pona with us, because it's fun! https://mun.la/kulupu
No music version: youtu.be/74bVJ672F6g
This is another lesson I gave for the Toki Pona VR community, recorded separate from the meetups! Thanks to everyone who helped make this a reality, for all the great questions, and for the appreciation for my effort.
This lesson focuses on the many ways interjections are used in Toki Pona, from all the different content word interpretations to the ways you can tell people how you feel!
Thumbnail by Nyxoom: ko-fi.com/nyxoomdraws
#teaching #tokipona #lesson8 #interjections #mu
Learn Toki Pona with us, because it's fun! https://mun.la/kulupu
This is another lesson I gave for the Toki Pona VR community! Thanks to everyone who came for the great questions, and for the appreciation after the fact.
This lesson focuses on the particle o, used for giving instructions or getting others attention!
#teaching #tokipona #lesson7 #instructions #commands #taso #o
Learn Toki Pona with us, because it's fun! https://mun.la/kulupu
This is the lesson I gave for the Toki Pona VR community in meetup number 36! Thanks to everyone who came for the great questions, and for the appreciation after the fact.
This lesson focuses on prepositions, a way of including context to your sentences to give them new meanings!
Here's two little things I missed!
- As a prep, tawa has three different interpretations. But this is relative to English. In Toki Pona, the three are united by a philosophical interpretation of "movement."
- In the first example of multiple prepositions, I say "ona li toki lon lape ona sama mama pi jan mi". The "lon" here *could* be about location in ideas, or about physical location- as in, talking in their sleep!
#teaching #tokipona #lesson6 #prepositions #preps #context
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This is the lesson I gave for the Toki Pona VR community in meetup number 30! Thanks to everyone who came for the great questions, and for the appreciation after the fact.
This lesson focuses on pre-predicates, a special kind of modifier for the start of the predicate. It also focuses on ala, for negating parts in a sentence!
#teaching #tokipona #lesson5 #prepredicates #prepreds #mods #ala
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This is **third** redo of the lesson I gave for the Toki Pona VR community in meetup number 28! Thanks to everyone who came for the great questions, and for the appreciation after the fact.
This lesson focuses on modifiers, the particle pi, and various example sentences involving it, plus around a dozen other words and their glyphs. Change the world!
This one was hard to get out. It went through a good 2 or 3 reworks before I found an amount of content and a style I was satisfied with. But this one is good- not as many examples as I would like, but good!
#teaching #tokipona #lesson4 #modifiers #mods
Learn Toki Pona with us, because it's fun! https://mun.la/kulupu
This is a recording of the lesson I gave for the Toki Pona VR community in meetup number 26! Thanks to everyone who came for the great questions, and for the appreciation after the fact.
This lesson focuses on the object marker e, and various example sentences involving it, plus around a dozen other words and their glyphs.
This is the cleanest one yet! Pop filter, better recording process. Unfortunately, VRChat also recorded my UI bits, so that's awkward but not too intrusive!
#teaching #tokipona #lesson3 #objects
Learn Toki Pona with us, because it's fun! https://mun.la/kulupu
This is a recording of the lesson I gave for the Toki Pona VR community in meetup number 25! Thanks to everyone who came for the great questions, and for the appreciation after the fact.
This lesson focuses on the use of li in the basic sentence, "[subject] li [predicate]"!
Great news, I'll have a pop filter and a better plan for recording audio next time!
#teaching #tokipona #lesson2 #action #description #li
Learn Toki Pona with us, because it's fun! https://mun.la/kulupu
This is a re-recording of the lesson I gave for the Toki Pona VR community in meetup number 24! Thanks to everyone who came for the great questions, and for the appreciation after the fact. I recorded it again because I felt I could do a better job- and it came out much better! I still have room to improve though! Also, I am ordering a pop filter for my headset, I swear
This lesson focuses on mi and sina, and various example sentences involving them, plus around a dozen other words and their glyphs.
Thumbnail by Nyxoom: ko-fi.com/nyxoomdraws
#teaching #tokipona #lesson1 #youandi
This is a recording of the lesson I gave for the Toki Pona VR community in meetup number 23! Thanks to everyone who came for the great questions, and for the appreciation after the fact.
This lesson focuses on the various forms of comparison that exist in Toki Pona, from contrasting two objects to pure description.
#teaching #tokipona #comparison
This is a recording of the second lesson I gave for suno pi toki pona, alongside the Toki Pona VR meetup number 22! Thanks to everyone for coming along!
This lesson is based on a few I previously gave. Check those out too:
youtube.com/watch?v=NpcoCeNOptc
youtube.com/watch?v=UHkSGC7dK94
Sorry for the audio! Unfortunately, my desktop wasn't quite prepared for recording and streaming in VR all at once.
#sunopitokipona2022 #teaching #tokipona
This is a recording of the third and final lesson I gave for suno pi toki pona, alongside the Toki Pona VR meetup number 22! Thanks to everyone for coming along!
This lesson is based on one I previously gave. Check that one out too: youtube.com/watch?v=NYFf0_z9Dck
Sorry for the audio! Unfortunately, my desktop wasn't quite prepared for recording and streaming in VR all at once.
#sunopitokipona2022 #teaching #tokipona
This is a recording of the first lesson I gave for suno pi toki pona, alongside the Toki Pona VR meetup number 22! Thanks to everyone for coming along!
This lesson is based on one I previously gave. Check that one out too:
youtube.com/watch?v=NYFf0_z9Dck
Sorry for the audio! Unfortunately, my desktop wasn't quite prepared for recording and streaming in VR all at once.
#sunopitokipona2022 #teaching #tokipona
This is a recording of the lesson I gave for the Toki Pona VR community in meetup number 21! Thanks to everyone who came for the great questions, and for the appreciation after the fact.
This lesson focuses on borrowing specific units of time into Toki Pona, without using the words for those concepts, by relying on physical objects and phenomenon that are closely related to those units of time.
#teaching #tokipona #time
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This is a recording of the lesson I gave for the Toki Pona VR community in meetup number 20! Thanks to everyone who came for the great questions, and for the appreciation after the fact.
The lessons are coming out better and better! I need to adjust my OBS settings again, because I was recording all of my desktop sounds this time. But, this one is clean! No corrections.
#teaching #tokipona #grammar
This is a recording of the lesson I gave for the Toki Pona VR community in meetup number 19! Thanks to everyone who came for the great questions, and for the appreciation after the fact.
This one is actually, properly live! It's not perfect- I missed the collection of phrases for "excuse me"/"my mistake", and at one point I write "sina sona mute a" then say "sina pona mute a". Not a huge trouble, and over all a valuable lesson for self-expression in Toki Pona.
I feel the importance I placed on expressing yourself *over* simple statements made as shortly as possible is the key takeaway here.
#teaching #tokipona #expression
This is not quite a recording of the lesson I gave for the Toki Pona VR community in meetup number 18! Thanks to everyone who came for the great questions, and for the appreciation after the fact.
That said, this is actually a recreation of the lesson, made after the fact because I recorded the original with the wrong camera. It's POV instead of camera view. Oops.
But, this one turned out much cleaner! To save some time and help make listening more comfortable, I've cut some dead time.
#teaching #tokipona #translation
There's a couple little mistakes, cause I was new to toki pona when I made this!
- soweli suli mute li **lon** supa. they do not lon e supa.
- the pronunciation of "pimeja" and "majuna" are both emphasizing the syllable in the middle, not the first syllable as intended.
If you want to learn Toki Pona, here are some resources:
https://devurandom.xyz/tokipona/
http://www.memrise.com/course/6039964
http://www.memrise.com/course/5969373
http://www.memrise.com/course/1431917
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuYLhuXt4HrQIv3xnDxZqRaLfmxB2U5rJ
jamesmoulang.itch.io/nasin-sona-musi
https://tp.lcp.su/nimi-tu/
morr.cc/toki-pona-cheat-sheet/toki-pona-cheat-sheet.pdf
amazon.com/dp/0978292308 (pu)
amazon.com/dp/0978292367 (ku)
wikipesija.org/wiki/lipu_open
lipukule.org
tokipona.org
reddit.com/r/tokipona
discord.gg/nbgXCC6
https://t.me/kulupu_toki
jcdietrich.github.io
wyub.github.io/tokipona/linjasike
yes I know it's a hair brush not a cleaning brush but the comb and brush are both "ilo linja" so I faked it