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.
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 #grammarma pi telo sewi | RAIN WORLDjan Kekan San2024-09-16 | tenpo pi mute seme la mi ken moli?nasin sona tu wanjan Kekan San2024-09-07 | toki pona en tawa li tan ijo vivi! kalama en sitelen anpa li tan mi! lipu open li ni: xkcd.com/2977
https://mun.la/sonaMa Pi Telo Sewijan Kekan San2024-08-25 | mi kama sin lon ma pi telo sewi... li soweli ko.ma pi telo sewi - openjan Kekan San2024-06-23 | tenpo suli la jan li toki e ni: o musi ni! mi kama ni.
https://mun.la/sonamusi Seta open! - MI KO E ONAjan Kekan San2024-06-09 | sina wile musi la o tawa ni: https://len.la/seta tenpo suli weka la mi musi Seta. taso, mi pini ala e musi. mi o pini e musi lon tenpo ni.musi Seta open! #2jan Kekan San2024-05-26 | sina wile musi la o lukin e ni: https://len.la/seta pona tawa len len a!
tenpo suli weka la mi musi Seta. taso, mi pini ala e musi. mi o pini e musi.tomo soweli (Animal Well) #3jan Kekan San2024-05-19 | musi ni li open lon tenpo suno nanpa luka tu tu pi tenpo mun nanpa luka! musi ni li sama ni: musi Halo tu en musi Halo tu wan li wantomo soweli (Animal Well) #2jan Kekan San2024-05-15 | musi ni li open lon tenpo suno nanpa luka tu tu pi tenpo mun nanpa luka! musi ni li sama ni: musi Halo tu en musi Halo tu wan li wantomo soweli (Animal Well) #1jan Kekan San2024-05-12 | musi ni li open lon tenpo suno nanpa luka tu tu pi tenpo mun nanpa luka! musi ni li sama ni: musi Halo tu en musi Halo tu wan li wantomo pi walo lojejan Kekan San2024-04-01 | o kama sona e toki pona! https://mun.la/sona 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.jan moli pi ma Nu Olinjan Kekan San2023-10-28 | o kama sona e toki pona! https://mun.la/sona 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_Orleansmusi Seta open! #1jan Kekan San2023-10-14 | o musi ni! tan len len: github.com/mazzies/musi-Seta 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.Everything is Numbersjan Kekan San2023-09-08 | Learn Toki Pona, because it's free! https://mun.la/sona
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 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!ale li nanpajan Kekan San2023-09-01 | o kama sona e toki pona tan musi! https://mun.la/sona
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 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 :)jan Kekan San Live Streamjan Kekan San2023-07-13 | ...Literally Jellyfish - Learn Toki Pona!jan Kekan San2023-06-24 | Read the lessons, because it's free! https://mun.la/sona 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!esun pi jan suli ike Pijan Kekan San2023-04-07 | O ANPA
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=4sZuN0xXWLcI, We, You, He, She, They, It, Also They, - Learn Esperanto! Lesson 1jan Kekan San2023-04-01 | Read the lesson, because it's free: https://mun.la/sona 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!
#esperanto #teaching #pronouns #lesson1 #aprilfoolsMany li, e, en, anu - Learn Toki Pona! Lesson 10jan Kekan San2023-03-05 | Read the lesson, because it's free! https://mun.la/sona/bits 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!
#teaching #tokipona #lesson10 #li #e #en #anu #grammarmi kute e kalama pi musi Telawija lajan Kekan San2023-02-16 | jan Eweke li pana e sitelen Telawija! https://linktr.ee/paranormalchicken jan Wali li pana e sitelen mi! ko-fi.com/vallee152 o lukin e ijo mi! https://mun.laTranslation Practice - Learn Toki Pona!jan Kekan San2023-02-14 | Read the lessons, because it's free! https://mun.la/sona/ 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 #eventmi lon e majan Kekan San2023-02-10 | sitelen li tan waso mu lon lipu ni: waso-mu.neocities.org/musi mi kalama e ona! https://mun.la/Names, Numbers, and kin - Learn Toki Pona! Lesson 9jan Kekan San2023-02-04 | Read the lesson, because it's free! https://mun.la/sona/bits 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 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!
#teaching #tokipona #lesson9 #names #numbers #kinmusi Seta lon ma telo pi sitelen lape - o musi!jan Kekan San2023-01-14 | waso Keli li ante e musi Seta ni tawa toki pona la mi o musi! kin la o lukin e pali ona! youtu.be/LUzSWW40WC8
mi kalama e ona! https://mun.la/Interjections, mu, a! - Learn Toki Pona! Lesson 8jan Kekan San2023-01-08 | Read the lesson, because it's free! https://mun.la/sona/interjections 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, 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!
#teaching #tokipona #lesson8 #interjections #muInstructions and o - Learn Toki Pona! Lesson 7jan Kekan San2022-11-30 | Read the lesson, because it's free! https://mun.la/sona/o 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 #oPrepositions - Learn Toki Pona! Lesson 6jan Kekan San2022-11-18 | Read the lesson, because it's free! https://mun.la/sona/preps 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 #contextPre-predicates and ala - Learn Toki Pona! Lesson 5jan Kekan San2022-10-14 | Read the lesson, because it's free! https://mun.la/sona/pre-predicates 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 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 #alaModifiers and pi - Learn Toki Pona! Lesson 4jan Kekan San2022-10-01 | Read the lesson, because it's free! https://mun.la/sona/mod-pi Learn Toki Pona with us, because it's fun! https://mun.la/kulupu
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 #modsObjects with e - Learn Toki Pona! Lesson 3jan Kekan San2022-09-17 | Read the lesson, because it's free! https://mun.la/sona/e 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 #objectsAction with li - Learn Toki Pona! Lesson 2jan Kekan San2022-09-03 | Read the lesson, because it's free! https://mun.la/sona/li 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 #liYou and I - Learn Toki Pona! Lesson 1jan Kekan San2022-08-26 | Read the lesson, because it's free! https://mun.la/sona/mi-sina 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.
#teaching #tokipona #lesson1 #youandiFancy Comparisons - Learn Toki Pona!jan Kekan San2022-08-15 | Come speak Toki Pona with us, because it's fun! http://munsona.tokiponavr.net
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 #comparisonExploring nasin - suno pi toki pona 2022jan Kekan San2022-08-07 | Come speak Toki Pona with us, because it's fun! http://munsona.tokiponavr.net
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!
Sorry for the audio! Unfortunately, my desktop wasn't quite prepared for recording and streaming in VR all at once.
#sunopitokipona2022 #teaching #tokiponaConcept Expression - suno pi toki pona 2022jan Kekan San2022-08-07 | Come speak Toki Pona with us, because it's fun! http://munsona.tokiponavr.net
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!
Sorry for the audio! Unfortunately, my desktop wasn't quite prepared for recording and streaming in VR all at once.
#sunopitokipona2022 #teaching #tokiponaWord Expression - suno pi toki pona 2022jan Kekan San2022-08-07 | Come speak Toki Pona with us, because it's fun! http://munsona.tokiponavr.net
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!
Sorry for the audio! Unfortunately, my desktop wasn't quite prepared for recording and streaming in VR all at once.
#sunopitokipona2022 #teaching #tokiponaBorrowing Time - Learn Toki Pona!jan Kekan San2022-07-31 | Come speak Toki Pona with us, because it's fun! http://munsona.tokiponavr.net
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 #timeInstead of Phatic Phrases - Learn Toki Pona!jan Kekan San2022-07-18 | Come speak Toki Pona with us, because it's fun! http://munsona.tokiponavr.net
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 #expressionConcepts and Translation - Learn Toki Pona!jan Kekan San2022-07-10 | Come speak Toki Pona with us, because it's fun! http://munsona.tokiponavr.net
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.
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:
yes I know it's a hair brush not a cleaning brush but the comb and brush are both "ilo linja" so I faked itHes Frozen In Therejan Kekan San2021-09-24 | #deltarune