I Learned the World's Smallest Language

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We need duolingo to make a toki pona course EDIT: ok now i understand why that would be a bad idea. Im learning toki pona rn btw

the reason is pronounced the same as an english is so that the letters of Toki Pona are exact 1:1 as their IPA phonemes. in english uses the phoneme /j/, the same goes for in Toki Pona

Actually "j" is pronounced like that in most of the languages, not just slavic, but germanic as well. English is pretty much an exception

Since you asked for it, here's some critiques of that final test you gave yourself: - "mi sona ni" should be "mi sona e ni" - using "kin la" as a conjunction, as in joining two sentences together with it into one larger sentence, isn't something you can do in the same way you would with English words like 'and.' It can be used to start a new sentence if you want, but conjunctions don't really exist in TP with the possible exception of anu. Also, I'm not entirely sure what the word 'also' would actually mean in this context. I would just remove the word 'kin' and make it "o kama sona e toki pona la ..." or maybe "sina kama sona e toki pona la..." - the word 'jo' can mean 'have', but only in the sense of having or owning something, such as "I have an apple". The English word 'have' is weird and can mean about a dozen different things. In the case of "have a good time," which I assume you tried to translate, the word 'have' doesn't actually convey ownership, so 'jo' isn't a great fit. I would probably just phrase that part of the sentence completely differently, such as "sina ken pilin pona" or "ona li ken pona tawa sina." Everything else seems good though. I'm honestly quite impressed. The toki pona cult continues to grow!

really loving the exposure that toki pona is getting as of recently!!! i thought a few things were worth mentioning, though! the word "kijetesantakalu", the one that means raccoon, was actually added by sonja as an april fools joke! it was funny to create an overly long word with an overly specific definition, but people liked it enough that it became official!!! also, the reason why in toki pona is pronounced like english's is to remain consistent with most languages, as most actually do pronounce the letter j that way lol

the fact that oats watched jan misali videos to learn this is incredible

you have summoned all the tokiponists on the internet, some of them will offer unsolicited corrections, don't be discouraged, you've learnt it really well, I like your translations, like journal as lipu tawa. welcome to the exclusive club of weirdos with intentionally small vocabularies!

2:26 mi wile pali e moku* no need for li if mi is the subject and has no modifiers. Also i’d recommend jan Telakoman’s series “o pilin e toki pona” its great for becoming more fluent as it gives you many hours of comprehensible input so you don’t spend so long working out what people are saying in your head. I found it the most helpful resource out there. You can either use it as a starting point or you can have prior knowledge for it to work

I like your attitude towards it, humble, but with really good Toki Pona sentences with only minor mistakes. Sometimes, when someone makes a video about Toki Pona, he'd want to appear knowledgeable, but actually making a lot of mistakes (*cough cough* Half as Interesting). You avoid that. I also like that it's visible that you put a lot of effort into learning the language before making the video. I agree that the main reason to learn it is that it's just a lot of fun! Especially making notes in sitelen pona :) tenpo ni la, mi wile sitelen e nimi mute kepeken toki pona tawa ni: jan ante li sona ale e toki mi li pilin e ni: mi jan pi sona mute.

I’d never thought I’d see jan Misali show up on another channel but here we are

Someone who can translate it should say something along the lines of "Makes sense you liked Toki Pona so much, you fixed the alphabet twice.

Once you get better it’d be hilarious to do a whole video in toki pona

I love how they have a specific word for raccoon

kama pona tawa toki pona! sina pona tan ni: sina pana e pali mi lon anpa pi sitelen sina a. :) sina kama wawa lon toki pona lon tenpo lili! sina wile ala wile awen toki pona? Welcome to Toki Pona! Thank you for putting my lessons in the description :) You've gotten very good at Toki Pona in a short time! Do you want to continue speaking it?

"English is the only language" *learns toki pona*

PONA AAA thank you so much for making this video! idk where the 30 hour thing comes from it usually takes people longer than that. you could def use more practice but youre so on the path to fluency :> i can send some more high level learning resources if you want. BUT OMG IT WAS SO COOL TO SEE A GOOD REPRESENTATION OF TOKI PONA!!! this video really reminded me of how much fun i had learning toki pona. this inspired me to start using toki pona more. YIPEEE!!! omg your learning resources were super good too. those three are super helpful. definitely some of the best resources. i dont even know what to say im just so happy you made this video. pona tawa sina💗💗 WAWA!!!

dude, being a nerd is awesome. just remember to stay humble, if you can do that then you can be an s-tier nerd. whatever you set your dreams to, sky's the limit.

hearing you talking in toki pona reminds me of japanese and the writing just seems like a more simple and understandable kanji cool

I'm in the middle of making my own conlang for a comic, and while coming up with the numeric system and the grammar itself has been rather straight-forward, contextualizing the words is just the hardest thing. This vid' has been quite informative in breaking down how a language is learnt - so I rike it