I Learned the World's Smallest Language

o lukin e nasin sona mi pi toki pona! (watch my journey of learning toki pona!) 𓅱
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sitelen tawa tu pi toki pona! (my second video on toki pona!) - • First Look at the New ...
ilo pona pi kama sona e toki pona (Good Tools to Learn Toki Pona):
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jan Misali’s Toki Pona Lessons:
(newer incomplete series): • toki pona lessons
(older complete series): • sona pi toki pona
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Optimem (Flashcard App):
optimem.org/
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musi lili’s Sitelen Pona Lessons:
• Learn Sitelen Pona
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Toki Pona Official Site + Book Links:
tokipona.org/
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Toki Pona Discord:
/ discord
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(More Tools Not Mentioned in the Video):
Some useful lessons:
aiki.pbworks.com/f/tp+in+76+l...
Toki Pona Grammar Checker:
telo-misikeke.gitlab.io/
Toki Pona Cheat Sheet:
blinry.org/toki-pona-cheat-sh...
jan Kekan San's Toki Pona Lessons:
• Learn Toki Pona!
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0:00 - Beginning the Journey
1:35 - 137 WORDS.
3:23 - Learning OTHER LANGUAGES??
4:25 - Books & Sentences HOW??
6:02 - Benefits?
7:20 - Toki Pona Symbols
8:55 - TOKI PONA TEST

[@OatsJenkins]

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[@Mogoodboy21]

MAKE AFRICA TWO

[@chairchairyes2524]

@@Mogoodboy21wtf would that even be

[@Mogoodboy21]

@@chairchairyes2524redraw Africas borders

[@chairchairyes2524]

@@Mogoodboy21thats pretty boring

[@Mogoodboy21]

@@chairchairyes2524 he redrew the usa and Africa has even worse borders

[@RmationYT]

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

[@OatsJenkins]

ni li lon!

[@RmationYT]

@@OatsJenkins sorry i haven’t learnt toki pona yet

[@RmationYT]

what does that mean

[@Kazarijyanainoyonamidawa]

@@RmationYT I think it means something along the line of "that's right" (i forgot what ni is, but li kind of acts like "is" and lon means true or correct I think"

[@Kazarijyanainoyonamidawa]

I checked ni means "this" or "that"

[@michajerchel7350]

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

[@Bentijon]

It's also like that in French.

[@michajerchel7350]

@@BentijonI am pretty sure "j" in French doesn't sound like it does in, for example, german

[@F_A_F123]

Romance languages are exceptions (I don't know if all of them are)

[@Zethlynn]

@@F_A_F123 in Spanish it's /x/, in French it's /ʒ/, in italian it's /i/, in Portuguese and Romanian it's just like french. Most are exceptions weird enough since in Latin (where J derives from) made /i/ and /j/

[@michajerchel7350]

@@F_A_F123Yeah, I meant that english is an exception amongst germanic languages

[@felixroux]

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!

[@g_zuz_krist695]

Ain't no way

[@jan_Eten]

i gotta say, front facing kijetesantakalu is kinda cursed

[@viktor7536]

I like using "mi sona ni" in place of "mi sona e ni". Doesn't "I know this" kind of mean the same as "I know thus"?

[@iliketrains2774]

I think he wasn't using "kin la" to start a new sentence, I interpreted it as "you should learn toki pona too, and if you do, you'll have a good time", "kin" meaning "too", and "too" because he also learned it. I agree with your third point. You can also phrase it like "tenpo pona li lon".

[@mindcraft4362]

@@viktor7536 I would interpret "mi sona ni" more like "I know like this". Consider: "mi jo e tenpo lili la, mi tawa sona ni" which I understand as "I have little time, I learn (like) this." Although ultimately, I think it's best to just include "e" "sama" or "tan" to remove ambiguity.

[@mrdebdeb]

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

[@mattheworchard481]

* * Orθograφy is written in aŋgle brackets

[@mrdebdeb]

@@mattheworchard481 Im still a little new, thanks!

[@user-rizzwan]

@@mattheworchard481 i think you added an extra g

[@mattheworchard481]

@@user-rizzwan is pronounced /æŋɡl̩/, not /æŋl̩/

[@oyoo3323]

​@@mattheworchard481well, both actually. It depends on the dialect.

[@alphaofficial6466]

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

[@FreeStatesofKapuska]

lon, ona li wile mute sin jan pi toki pona.

[@the_masked6individua]

​@@FreeStatesofKapuskagoogle translate now has toki pona now, i think

[@QUBIQUBED]

languages having April Fools jokes seems insane to me... like, isn't that so surreal!??!

[@alphaofficial6466]

@@QUBIQUBED Sonja is simply a little silly

[@logan3102]

@@FreeStatesofKapuska when i was born with someone else???

[@Hard2Place]

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

[@CouldBeMathijs]

They really are the preacher of toki pona lol

[@quanket]

Yes the main man

[@Valerie-tp4hg]

I love both of them and I was so happy to see that he watched jan

[@chocolateavian]

it’s like worlds colliding that I never knew needed to occur

[@beesinpyjamas9617]

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!

[@OatsJenkins]

haha yes i'm aware, and i welcome all tips and corrections,, i'd love to be totally fluent

[@Bigzthegreat]

Kinda silly language, you remove all offical vocabulary but then have a bunch of unoffical vocabulary. Learning all the ways someone can say various ideas of objects is probably annoying. Besides that, it looks like it would function quite well.

[@beesinpyjamas9617]

@@Bigzthegreat yea it works the same as any other language if you know it fluently. there's not as much confusion in the ambiguity as you might expect. also it's not like there aren't agreed upon sets of words, the original 120 words (nimi pu) + 16 or so extras (nimi ku) are 99% of people's vocabulary, and everybody agrees upon what they mean, there's just no officially mandated set because it's creator wants it to belong to the evolving language community and not a single person's judgement, which is how natural languages work anyway

[@Bigzthegreat]

@@beesinpyjamas9617 You misunderstand. When I talk about, "unoffical" words, I mean combinations of existing words to form new ideas. My point being that you have to memorize all these colloquial combinations in order to be understood, or to understand others, which defeats the purpose of having a small amount of words. However, you did say the amount of ambiguity is small, and if it is, I would be pleasantly surprised.

[@beesinpyjamas9617]

@@Bigzthegreat oh I see, "lexicalisation" of word combinations is often discouraged for this reason, it unfortunately happens a lot anyway but mostly by beginners, like "tomo tawa" (moving structure) as car or vehicle being incredibly ubiqutous, but i strongly reccomend people think about coming up with their own ways of saying these things, especially when something like tomo tawa doesn't make sense for the context (is a vehicle not more of a tool? what if it isn't enclosed? is a motorbike or a racecar a structure? how can something thats moving be parked?)

[@pyglik2296]

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.

[@OatsJenkins]

i'm really glad you're all accepting me into the community so nicely haha, much appreciated

[@RuyVuusen]

Hey, what _doesn't_ HAI get wrong? We viewers practically bully them for it.

[@realemolga6306]

I totally agree! Your video is one of the best and most accurate portrails of toki pona on KZbin from outside the tp-sphere ❤

[@user-cp1kx8pp1t]

Toki pona sound like japonise but easier in learn.

[@vintage-radio]

​@@user-cp1kx8pp1ttrue

[@jakequaza3567]

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

[@GavinBisesi]

'o pilin e toki pona' is a fantastic resource, definitely +1 for that

[@ARG-ARandomGuy]

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

[@alphaofficial6466]

same

[@dontgoonmyprofile9028]

sama

[@lextatertotsfromhell7673]

Me too

[@Salmonboyo]

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.

[@FreeStatesofKapuska]

sina pona e toki pona tawa sina, la sina pona e sitelen Lasina nanpa tu. "Simple you like Toki Pona so much, you fixed the Latin writing twice." i think thats correct, but it could accidentally be translated as: "Thank you for talking good to yourself, your good two letters in Latin."

[@alphaofficial6466]

ken la, sina pilin pona mute tawa toki pona tan ni: sina pana pona tawa kulupu nimi lon tenpo tu! [rough translation: maybe you like toki pona so much because you made the alphabet better twice!] [exact translation: in the context of possibility, you feel good a lot toward the language of good because of this: you gave goodness towards the group of letters in two times!]

[@Salmonboyo]

Thanks for the kind of blowup?

[@cm222]

@@FreeStatesofKapuska Pretty sure that actually means something along the lines of "in the context of you improving toki pona to you, you improve two Latin writings"

[@5ucur]

@@cm222 I see it as exactly that except for the last bit, which I interpret as "you improve the second Latin alphabet".

[@gregdan3d]

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?

[@OatsJenkins]

lon! mi olin mute e toki pona la, ona li musi li pona. mi lukin e sitelen tawa sina "musi Seta open" la, sina sona e toki pona *MUTE*,, ni li pona mute la, en ona li pana e pona pilin tawa mi! Yes! I love toki pona a lot, it's fun and good. I saw your video "musi Seta open" (obviously your lessons as well!), you know SO MUCH toki pona,, it's awesome, and it's very motivating for me! (i know even this sitelen isn't pona ale, taso that's ok!)

[@penwozhere]

@@OatsJenkins ~~o lukin e sitelen Seta mi kin~~

[@chaoshelm]

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

[@LeahMcNabb]

i want to see this

[@diegoolariaga5051]

​@@LeahMcNabb me too

[@mattheworchard481]

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

[@ahmadshalaby1766]

What about Arabic/ عربي

[@nik_tsal222]

sewi o, sina jan Masu a!

[@KangJangkrik]

Belajar odni dan yalam saja la

[@swiftkillerrr]

​@@JonDoh-ve7ecwhat are you on about the only language i know is european

[@Raccoon_Ingot]

I love how they have a specific word for raccoon

[@elemenopi9239]

praise kijetesantakalu

[@Envy_May]

so true, jan kiwen kipisi kijetesantakalu

[@vpvnsf]

Technically, every language has a specific word for raccoon.

[@omekapo]

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!!!

[@GavinBisesi]

I could see 30 hours for memorizing the vocab and getting to a point where you can produce or understand very basic sentences in specific contexts that you're prepared for. It's not what I'd consider "learned" in 30 days but in 30 days you can learn enough that everything else is just practice, I think that's fair to say

[@jumpvelocity3953]

crazy how you can see the simplification of thoughts in this comment

[@leg-sc1bb]

your comment is so bonkers in such a silly way, i just had a lot of fun reading it lol.

[@gamesdocanaldothi3477]

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

[@zegobou]

The transliteration of names kind of resembles the way names are transliterated into Chinese, too (not Japanese because they have katakana for that purpose, but still kanji)

[@abarette_]

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

[@jvdos]

Yay! I love toki pona and im so happy you covered it! Sina pona!

[@hhhpestock951]

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.

[@Psoewish]

This is the most on brand thing for you to learn ever lol. Also this language has a really nice ring to it/flow to it so I’m kind of interested in checking it out for myself now.

[@temmiemew]

OATS THIS IS SO GOOD ❤️❤️❤️ im a toki ponist and you did so much better than any other youtuber ive seen. i love you so much thank you for doing this AND actually doing your research. the toki pona community appreciates this more than you know.

[@Panceak]

Imma learn the language just so I can be called a toki ponist

[@leobelizan570]

Can't wait for Toki Pona 2

[@misshollis7547]

He already fixed the English alphabet

[@RichConnerGMN]

toki ma

[@Numbercrown]

I’m so happy, I really like your content and I’ve been trying to learn toki pona for a few months now, this was so surprising to see

[@Jaichbinhier]

Now we need to teach toki pona to Google, so that when I click to translate any comment in this comment section, I can read and fully understand whatever has been written. 😇

[@FreeStatesofKapuska]

translating toki pona is incredibly difficult cause it relies heavily on context, so if Google Translate had toki pona, it probably would not be accurate at all.

[@Ryann9]

⁠@@FreeStatesofKapuskaYou're acting like Google translate was accurate to begin with

[@mr.duckie._.]

​@@Ryann9 "google translate is very accurate!" random typék: Allow me to introduce myself.

[@omekapo]

toki pona is so different from other languages that you would need a really complex AI to even get close ti accurate translations💔

[@omekapo]

@@FreeStatesofKapuskayes exactly

[@justamicrowave5297]

If everyone just decided to learn this language it would make talking to people who don’t speak your language so much easier. Sure you wouldn’t be able to have in depth conversations, but at least you could communicate more simple things without trouble.

[@vermillion2023]

I'm proud of you, Oats. Toki Pona is awesome

[@killianc7356]

...and to this day I love the outro (and toki pona)! jan Ots Jenkins o, mi pona sitelen tawa sina a!

[@FallenCreed]

Finally something I can do!

[@ciach0_]

Oats should create Language 2

[@borsuk_10]

As a mild conlang enthusiast, I would see that as an absolute win.

[@wyattstevens8574]

Yeah- then Mitch (Misali) could do his "conlang critic" thing again!

[@gabiiiiiiiii.k]

Off topic but great quality video! Deserves more recognition

[@NehaPatel-ii6nh]

you showed an rubik's cube wile saying simplifiying your thoughts and i love that because i'm a cuber

[@pigiman7956]

I actually started learining toki pona from playing minecraft in toki pona, I've heard about that language from a friend of mine and asked him any time I was having problems with certain words but if you know the toki pona dictionary I do recommend playing minecraft in toki pona, it's quiete fun to see their translations

[@Jenste_Medoa]

This is awesome

[@AutMouseLabs]

I adore constructed languages! I will be checking this out!

[@jbr_topsecretgamingbonusch5695]

I love you dude your so comforting

[@SahaCaru]

This video came out at just the right time! You're my favorite YTer, and me and my Grandma have just started learning toki pona! (We're on our second day.)

[@OatsJenkins]

sweet! good luck to you both!

[@SahaCaru]

@@OatsJenkins thanks!

[@GavinBisesi]

sina en mama sina li kama sona toki la ni li pona mute! toki pona o musi tawa sina :)

[@Gyashonav]

I kind of been wanting to learn this for a while, I think it would have been best to start into the summer but that has past so maybe on weekends and breaks. I can get the official book though but it would be cool if I could, I mostly want to learn it because it's simplicity among other reasons. I guess for now though I'll be getting back to attempting to translate the Zonai script.

[@nexerine]

as a long time jan misali fan and a long time You fan seeing them in your video is actually insane

[@Morphimus]

Hey nice job! Welcome to the toki pona community.

[@Zethlynn]

Oh no he learned a conlang!!!!! Loved the video id love to see you go through another language

[@8rbit]

poliespo

[@Zethlynn]

@@8rbit Klingon

[@Ryann9]

Ithkuil

[@PokeCube_]

Kēlen

[@FreeStatesofKapuska]

​@@8rbitYES

[@Mercure250]

BTW, jan Misali's channel has videos on all kinds of different topics, not just Toki Pona, I highly recommend it

[@WhizzKid2012]

sina ken toki kepeken toki pona?

[@ondrejkral653]

There's no way oat LEARNED ONE OF MY FAVORITE LANGUAGES! LETS GOOOO!

[@seththegreat1760]

learning writing systems is quite easy, at least for me. I learned how to write all of the norse futharks fluently in like 5 days with only 30 mins of practice during school classes in 6th grade

[@SuperJSM]

8:24 I invented my own language and I had a similar feeling while translating a song I liked. I can't speak my own language fluently though so I guess I'm not all that great at keeping up to date with my language 😂

[@thewizardslime6764]

Now i wanna learn Toki Pona, i already have learned a different language from my natural one (specifically the one im writing in right now, as my main language is the famous Spanish) so it would be kinda interesting. I also wanted to learn Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese (ive heard they are quite different), Italian and Japanese.

[@Darkness-qp8bc]

Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese aren't THAT different (I'm Brazilian), the way the language works is pretty much the same, the only differences are vocab and accents, Portugal has only one (I believe), but Brazil has a bunch of them. The only grammatical difference really is the usage of "Tu" (In Portugal and Rio de Janeiro) and "Você" (Most of Brazil), which is really similar to "Tú" and "Usted" in conjugation, but not in politeness.

[@janKejoni]

o kama sona e wile ale sina.

[@shurale123]

If u r a Spanish speaker, Italian might be pretty easy 4 u Those languages are pretty similar U know, when I went to Mexico I didn't know Spanish and the Mexicans (many of them) didn't know English. But I spoke Italian and we understood each other

[@Hamm3r282]

@@shurale123 yeah but like some sounds r pretty different like the soft c sounds like a ch and soft g sounds like a dzh but in spanish the soft c is a s and the soft g is a h

[@gristen]

the grammar and writing system is very different from the languages you know, but i think you might enjoy japanese. im learning both japanese and spanish and i've found that they feel somewhat similar in how they're pronounced. japanese sounds always come in consonant + vowel pairs, with the vowel sounds always being pronounced the same way. the vowels in spanish are pronounced very similarly to this so alot of the sounds end up sounding like japanese and vice versa. the r sound in both languages are both fairly similar as well. of course there are still some differences, as the languages aren't related, but spanish and japanese sound alot more like each other than either language sounds compared to english.

[@rymanjones3]

jan kekan san is also good. loved the video!

[@palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046]

Learning TP genuinely improved your life

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

1:27 that’s literally how you transcribe that consonant sound in the international phonetic alphabet. And many Germanic languages too I didn’t know that Slavic languages did that too. So I don’t think it’s a bias.

[@dizzyrizzyforu]

the fact i tried to create a language when i was younger and i gave up in 3 minutes

[@meowmeow_nibba]

same

[@8-bitgiraffe917]

this video released right after my pu book came in! ive been meaning to learn it for a year now which is cool

[@8-bitgiraffe917]

also kijetesantakalu is just an april fools joke from jan sonja, so it isnt really necessary

[@CouldBeMathijs]

@@8-bitgiraffe917 People love it so much, it has become essential.

[@ProAudioIQ]

Loved this! 🎉

[@jantelakoman]

Nice video. Toki Pona is such a great way to experiment with language

[@jownadel1526]

jan telakoman found in the wild?

[@Triforce1018]

You forgot the best part of Speakly. No evil birds.

[@wyattstevens8574]

You mean Duo the owl?

[@swiftkillerrr]

​@@wyattstevens8574no he means george the eagle

[@evilded2]

TOKI PONA is awesome =) probably one of the best conlangs

[@somemagellanic]

omg,, its the language that made me love linguistics! sina toki pona la sina pona :3 toki pona li pona e sona sina

[@notwithouttext]

yo toki pona???? a!!! pona a! can't wait for when you make a tokiponido called "toki pona nanpa tu" where - uses base 11 - uses betabet

[@maybenextweek418]

I've been a Toki Pona speaker for about 4-5 months at this point, and I'm glad Toki Pona is finally getting the recognition it deserves. sina pona tan ni: sina kama sona e toki pona!

[@dylandapengu]

Bro I started learning Toki Pona like a week before this video released from one of my favorite KZbinrs

[@GoopMagnifucent]

This seems like fun, i'll absolutely master this thing

[@spam9118]

So the funniest thing is that I’ve been wanting to learn Toki Pona for about a week and i probably will now because of this video

[@GavinBisesi]

o kama sona! Come learn it :D

[@spam9118]

@@GavinBisesi I’ve started today so mi toki lili

[@sunflwer694]

*doulingo left the chat*

[@Icesta663]

Duo*

[@ProactiveYellow]

toki sina li pona mute a! o toki mute la sina ken toki pona kepeken toki pona! Your sentences are pretty good! Speak (and write) more and you will continue to improve! I learned toki pona over the first weekend of the pandemic and it took me about a year to become fluent. I need to join back into the toki pona community and start writing again.

[@user-jh6eo9hj3f]

first time hearing about this and I bet most people do not know about it at all (at least not ppl in my life lol nobody would know what this was) so honestly great for diary writing!!!!

[@orilehman348]

I wanted to learn this language for a long time now, and you inspired me to start

[@pomidorus9]

If you say that Esperanto is simpler ur wrong. It's pronunciation is more similar to spanish, making it hard for others.

[@snwmat]

the type of language you would learn climbing a tall tower connecting people of different cultures together to defeat an evil super computer

[@TranslucentGanon]

Я учу русский and I can say that the shift in the use of screen time and the motivation to journal in the language is super true for all languages

[@gameclipking246]

He needs to do an entire video in toki pona

[@habarvaz3142]

I kinda want to learn Toki Pona but currently focusing on Chinese, Spanish, and French...

[@habarvaz3142]

And Arabic*

[@Purple835]

Cómo estás bien en español?

[@ahmadshalaby1766]

Then do it🏆🤚🏼

[@jantelakoman]

Because it's such a small language, it's a chance to try completely different learning methods

[@habarvaz3142]

Un poco bien @@Purple835

[@benjaminleavesley8384]

Did one of my favorite youtubers literally just become a toki poner too? epiku a!

[@Wowcannot]

I love how he put a large emphasis on pronunciation and then for the rest of the video used English's grammar

[@sinom]

j isn't just pronounced "yah" in slavic languages. It's pronounced like that in most european languages. It's also how the ipa symbol /j/ is pronounced

[@TTarragon]

The part about IPA is the key thing. All Toki Pona letter are equivalent to the IPA symbol. kipisi pi nasin IPA li suli mute. nasin sitelen pi toki pona (kepeken sitelen Lasin) li nasin IPA!

[@otistically]

my fellas Mitch/Misali and Sonja are getting the justice they deserve. 👊👊👊 (Mitch is also the Conlang Critic guy so... yeah.)

[@MudakTheMultiplier]

Yo, i actually bought The Language of Good, and have studied a bit, but havent gone as far as committing to try and properly learn toki pona, this is encouraging though!

[@thecosmos729]

I am an Esperantisto so I wasn't considering this language but after watching this video I am a lot more interested. This is a really good channel with such interesting content. I am sure your channel will be even more successful with such good content, and I can't wait to see that.

[@astrodonunt]

Kara samideano, nepre lernu Tokiponon haha. Ĝi estas tre amuze!

[@thecosmos729]

​@@astrodonuntMi konsideros ĝin kiam mi finos mian Esperanto-kurson.

[@HYrBatata]

​@@thecosmos729How did it went? I would love if the toki pona community and esperanto be more united instead of fighting each other

[@thecosmos729]

@@HYrBatata I am still learning Esperanto.

[@HYrBatata]

@@thecosmos729 That's good, what level you're currently in?

[@pandaqwanda]

when speaking toki pona, try to stress the first syllable, even in names

[@OatsJenkins]

yea that's definitely something i have to get used to, it's a nice feature tho!

[@jan_Majeken]

oh my gosh. i am speechless. all stuff i like in this video. mind if i scream for a minute? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@kaasmeester5903]

Reminds me a bit of "Up goer 5", Randall Munroe's (of XKCD fame) attempt to explain the Apollo 5 rocket using the "ten hundred words people use the most often". Using a limited vocabulary does simplify your thoughts, but that's usually not a good thing. :)

[@MrMinime23555]

realx oats you are no nerd. You simply like learning that's all

[@teddy8369]

YESSS i've been interested in toki pona for AGES but never found the time to learn (seriously, 6th year is no joke) so i was so surprised when i found this!!!

[@CouldBeMathijs]

o kama sona pona!

[@unintegrated]

wow, didnt expect you to learn my fsvorite conlang

[@jr.jackrabbit10]

for those attempting to learn toki pona, try Jan Telekoman's 30 days of toki pona story series. Because the vocabulary is so small, you don't need to do any kind of studying to jump in and have some understanding of what is being said. sitelen tawa pi jan Telekoman li pali e toki pona mi !

[@dalpal123]

let’s all learn toki pona to fill oat’s comments with hidden messages

[@OatsJenkins]

_sitelen ni li toki pona la, jan ale ala e ken sona li ni_

[@batata_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-7787]

Yes, just yes

[@prodtheontar]

​​@@OatsJenkins\*li ken sona **e** ni

[@mayhalke6360]

taso, mi sona e ona

[@wyattstevens8574]

​@@OatsJenkinsWhat exactly do you mean in English?

[@zekinler]

“Their name is sonja so that must be why is /j/“ is such an anglocentric thing to say

[@jan_Masilijun]

a!! moku Oto o, ni li pona! If you need a good dictionary for toki pona that is updated consistenly, I reccomend kala Asi's lipu Linku. It's updated with all the current definitions of all the words, as well as definitions for many obscure nimisin (new words). o moku e kala pona!

[@liamoliverdarroch6482]

Great video, might learn it... maybe...

[@SillySyrup]

Bro learned all 137 Gen 1 words

[@aimfulRenegade]

it's 120 gen 1 words and 17 gen 2 words.

[@SillySyrup]

@@aimfulRenegade Wait you're right, lol!

[@killianobrien2007]

jan Otasenkin li lukin e jan Misali? a a a a a!

[@OatsJenkins]

sitelen tawa pi jan Misali li pona mute tawa mi!

[@cd-romy1049]

@@OatsJenkins ni li sama tawa mi! kulupu sitelen tawa ni li pona mute tawa kama sona e toki pona. mi kama sona e toki pona kepeken pu en sitelen tawa mute pi jan Misali. ni li pona tawa mi: toki pona li pona tawa sina! :)

[@imbored457]

Someone please translate these lol

[@misshollis7547]

What are y’all saying? I haven’t learned it yet

[@awdwadda-mj6pw]

​@@imbored457 "OatsJenkins watched Jan Misali? Hahahaha!" "I like Jan Misali's videos!" "Me too! His videos are very good for learning toki pona. I learned toki pona using the _Toki Pona: The Language of Good_ book and Jan Misali's videos. I like that you like toki pona!"

[@Speed001]

2:53 hmm, sounds useful for just knowing individual words. Like academic vocab.

[@BlakeWantsIn]

Fun video dude keep it up

[@friendlessfellow]

PLS I ALREADY LEARNED LIKE 10 LANGUAGES PLS DONT MAKE ME LEARN ABOTHER ONE NOOOOO

[@RmationYT]

abother

[@googo6031]

Too bad

[@egochka11]

Dont worry

[@sesumo]

Are you insane? Which ones?

[@sreese9086]

You should make ur own language called oatish

[@That1Knife]

I started learning Toki Pona once. Maybe I'll start learning it again lol, this is quite cool though!

[@Vekkizunt]

JAN MISALI!!!! today is a good day

[@XRatedPoetry]

Have you never heard of Anki?

[@GDT-Studio]

Enlighten us.

[@ogglenut]

BIRD FROM EGYPT GANG 👇

[@TheOne_6]

BIRD FROM EGYPT

[@LexiJay8446]

BIRD FROM EGYPT

[@darkfire_ninja]

Wanting free likes gang?☝️

[@TheOne_6]

you broke the chain @@darkfire_ninja

[@gabrielmoreno7599]

Bird

[@Sarangsayandh2021-lv8fp]

I absolutely love your video's 😊😊😊

[@sergeyb.3502]

There is still room for optimization. For example, instead of color names we can use the corresponding RGB values. This will let us strike 6 words off the dictionary while making toki pona a lot more precise in this particualr aspect.