Toki, comrades!
I created this community because I wanted to create a Toki Pona community for socialists and communists of the materialist variety, the mainstream Toki Pona community is hosted on a discord called “ma pona pi toki pona” which while an incredibly useful resource with it’s own share of leftists is also home to liberalism, vulgar idealism and hosted on Discord which I do not like as much as Matrix!
I intend to create a space on matrix for this community hosted on the genzedong matrix server, too. If anyone wants to help me sort this out and be a mod on the matrix space, hit up my inbox or reach out to me on Matrix: @catfish:genzedong.xyz
I’m looking for mods to help me organize this community with a reworked sidebar with a Toki Pona translation and to help me come up with weekly threads too, feel free to reach out to me with the methods listed above if interested and I look forward to having fun with Toki Pona with you!
pona a!
If anyone wants to learn toki pona, I highly recommend this series, which teaches it via comprehensible input.
jan pali pi ma ale o wan!
translation
Workers of the world, unite!
Comprehensible input seems like a “too good to be true” method for language learning, but toki pona with its simplicity is probably a good test for it! Thanks for sharing this, it’s really interesting. I’ll try to dedicate the time to work through it.
is this a language that’s considered ‘accessible’ for folks who don’t know spanish or other romance languages??
Its fairly international. The creator, jan sonja, used ~10 languages to take source words from. Here’s a dictionary that shows which languages each word is from.
I know that there are Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and Russian communities for this language but I wouldn’t say it’s equally accessible to all language families because I’m not educated enough to speak on that for certain. Toki Pona is a very easy language to get into in my personal opinion and there are resources for it in many different languages!
