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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6468 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 1 of 8 30 May 2009 at 3:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm very tempted to do a one-week super-intensive language learning experiment... and since that can hardly prepare me well enough for any language, not to mention I should improve the languages I started first, I thought of doing Toki Pona.
Toki Pona is a minimalist language of only 120 root words. It's an experiment in pidgins and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis more than a full language; it can't be used to talk about anything scientific, but it is surprisingly versatile and forces the brain into new patterns of thinking. Moreover, despite being invented in 2001 only, its Yahoo group already has 470 members, you can always find some at Esperanto events and there are decent amounts of translated reading materials in it. Question: would anybody else join me? Edited by Sprachprofi on 30 May 2009 at 3:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6001 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 2 of 8 30 May 2009 at 8:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm sooo tempted to, but I really need to focus on my other languages right now. Good luck, I hope you find some others!
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| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6370 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 8 31 May 2009 at 5:58am | IP Logged | |||||
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That sounds like a lot of fun, Sprachprofi! Since the language has so few Lexemes,
you'll essentially know them all. I'd be fascinated to find out what it's like and to know how it goes about talking about more complex things. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| TheElvenLord Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6078 days ago 915 posts - 927 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Cornish, English* Studies: Spanish, French, German Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 5 of 8 01 September 2009 at 8:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Sprachprofi
If you are still interested, ill happily do a little test with you. TEL 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6468 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 6 of 8 02 September 2009 at 7:12am | IP Logged | |||||
I haven't done this yet because I wanted to do it as a "reward" for finishing up some university stuff. Now it looks like I will travel to the states before I can dedicate a whole week to this, so it will probably be the last week of October or first week of November. Do you want to join? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5845 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 8 02 September 2009 at 8:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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Toki Pona...
I had to read your Wikipedia link, Sprachprofi, because this new language was completely unknown to me. I have never even heard of this language name. For me - being an Esperantist - one constructed language is enough. Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful |
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