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| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5327 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 1 of 8 20 May 2011 at 3:56am | IP Logged |
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So, to increase the population of Toki Pona speakers (as I like this language and don't
want it to die haha) I'm taking it up for the next week to see how it goes. I cannot access the internet this week so I will have to share my progress when I get back. I am studying intensively tomorrow and about a half hour every night after that, then intensively the last day. Altogether I'm shooting for about 20-40 hours studying done, but I'll log my exact progress just to be safe. By people's projections I should have a very good idea of the language by then. I will also be taking a short break from Chinese (which I haven't really started because I have little materials as of now) and Spanish (which I have a strong enough base in to take a small break.). I'm also getting 2 of my friends to learn it with me, one of which is my brother. So hopefully, if we all continue to study, the amount of known fluent speakers will double. Assuming that 3 people speak it fluently. Any advice for me and the guys? I understand that after this week of intensive study it will take much longer to get an advanced understanding of the language, but we're going for mid-intermediate or if possible high-intermediate and continue from there. Seeing as we go to the same school, it's likely to spread a bit more after people hear us speaking it. Hopefully natural growth will eventually take place. I know people are intrigued by the ease of the language (on paper at least) Edited by Akao on 20 May 2011 at 1:48pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| akprocks Senior Member United States Joined 5277 days ago 178 posts - 258 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 2 of 8 20 May 2011 at 4:13am | IP Logged |
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I should start this again with my sister. We tried last year but I got into Swedish again and didn't want to mess with my short lived inspiration.
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| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5327 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 3 of 8 20 May 2011 at 4:16am | IP Logged |
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Sounds good. It feels like there should be more than 3 speakers for a language like this.
Definitely very unique, being almost entirely reliant on context. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5327 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 4 of 8 20 May 2011 at 1:15pm | IP Logged |
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Created my own dictionary to take with me on the trip. Took a while haha
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| Cowlegend999 Groupie CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5135 days ago 72 posts - 94 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 5 of 8 20 May 2011 at 1:35pm | IP Logged |
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If I may ask, how do you plan on putting in 50-70 hours in a week if you're studying intensively for 2 days,
and only 30 minutes the other days of the week?Wouldn't it be closer to 10-25 hours? Anyways, good luck with the language! I think it would be pretty amazing if you motivated your whole school to learn and use to language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5327 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 6 of 8 20 May 2011 at 1:47pm | IP Logged |
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Woops my bad haha. I wasn't really paying attention to the math there.
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6573 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 7 of 8 20 May 2011 at 2:07pm | IP Logged |
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It'll be fun to read about your experiences. I'm very interested in conlangs designed with specific purposes in mind, like Toki Pona's minimalism or Lojban's logical structure. Designing our own language is, to an extent, taking control of an essential part of ourselves and potentially influencing how we think about the world. It's pretty interesting.
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| Lianne Senior Member Canada thetoweringpile.blog Joined 5106 days ago 284 posts - 410 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Toki Pona, German, French | Message 8 of 8 24 June 2011 at 6:11pm | IP Logged |
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Out of curiosity, did you ever do this week of toki pona?
I focused on toki pona fairly intensively for a few weeks back in December (see my first log), and I was definitely surprised by how hard it was. Sure, in a few days you can learn all the words, but the combinations can be quite difficult. I'm thinking of devoting a weekend to it some time soon as a refresher, and then maybe doing some toki pona - English translating on Tatoeba to see if I can maintain it. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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