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Toki Pona Podcast

Toki Pona Podcast

By Santi Younger

The podcast fully dedicated to Toki Pona, the minimalist constructed language.

Are you new to Toki Pona? No worries, we'll be learning together until we can make this podcast fully spoken in Toki Pona.

Are you fluent in Toki Pona? Do you want to be a guest of the show, send me a message!
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#12 -What To Do When Your Toki Pona is Not Progressing?

Toki Pona PodcastJul 03, 2020

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#12 -What To Do When Your Toki Pona is Not Progressing?

#12 -What To Do When Your Toki Pona is Not Progressing?

Book Recommendation:
The Dip -Seth Godin / Personal Book Notes

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Jul 03, 202010:40
#11 -Announcement / Note Taking System For Language Learning (Screencast)

#11 -Announcement / Note Taking System For Language Learning (Screencast)

YouTube Video: Powerful Note Taking System For Language Learning // Walkthrough (Screencast)

Are you tired of note taking applications that become a mess the more you use them?  

Is language learning overwhelming when you have to use so many apps to keep track of notes and definitions?

 Yes and yes, then you are in the right place.  

My mission is to make advanced tools, (which are usually accesible to computer geniuses) learnable to common people like you and me.

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Jun 18, 202003:30
#10 -Should We Add More Words to Toki Pona?

#10 -Should We Add More Words to Toki Pona?

This is the YouTube channel I recommended in this episode
Toki Pona news weekly - seme li sin?

The document of toki pona words  I mentioned at the end of the episode:
nimi ale pona // Toki Pona Added Words 

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Jun 11, 202015:22
#9 -Let's Make Music In Toki Pona // Word of The Week is: telo

#9 -Let's Make Music In Toki Pona // Word of The Week is: telo

This week the challenge is to Translate Tarzan "Strangers like Me", I'll sing a cover of the Toki Pona version
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The word of The week is telo

english: water

latin: aqua

spanish: agua

italian: acqua  AHK-kwah

esperanto: akvo

french: l'eau

greek: neró

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Jun 04, 202012:55
#8 -The Meaning of The Word "jan" in Toki Pona

#8 -The Meaning of The Word "jan" in Toki Pona

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Today we have another guest voicenote.

by jan pili 

The word of the week is 

jan NOUN  human being, person, somebody

Derived Terms

jan pona friend (good person)

jan utala VERB  to battle, challenge, compete against, struggle against

jan ike

jan suli ADJECTIVE  big, heavy, large, long, tall; important; adult

jan lili ADJECTIVE  little, small, short; few; a bit; young

nimi mi li jan santi

Challenge from episode 6 "We should do neither, trusting everyone is as much a fault as trusting no one." 

-Seneca

both ways are bad trusting everyone or trusting no one.

Challenge ep8

"When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.

When people see some things as good,

other things become bad."

Lao Tzu

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May 28, 202013:28
#7 -Riddle in Toki Pona (Challenge week)

#7 -Riddle in Toki Pona (Challenge week)

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Shownotes

This week we have a riddle for you!


Stick to the end to solve the riddle in toki pona.


Challenge Translation #1 (from episode 5)

"The unexamined life is not worth living" -Socrates


jan Kapu

"ali kepeken nasin pi jan ante li pakala".

It's not very exact and precise with words, but the meaning still the same, I think.

It means "life using other people's way is a mistake".


jan tjaku

"jan li lukin wawa ala e ali pi jan , la ali pi jan li jo ala e pona"

Person does not pay attention strongly to life of person, then life of person has no goodness/worth


Episode #7 Riddle Challenge by jan tjaku

ni li jan seme? (who is this?)

mi jan sona suli mute.

mi lukin wawa e ali ma:

mi lukin wawa e akesi mute, en soweli mute, en waso mute, en kala mute, en pipi mute, en kasi mute.

mi kama sona e tan ali ma li kama awen lon:

ali ma li jo e ijo pona tawa nasin ma, la ali ma li kama awen lon.

ali ma li jo e ijo ike tawa nasin ma, la ali ma li kama moli lon.

mi pana sona ni tawa jan ali.

tenpo pini, jan mute li jo e pilin ike tawa sona mi.

tenpo ni, jan mute li jo e pilin pona tawa sona mi.

ni li jan seme?

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May 21, 202011:21
#6 -Amazing Comic in Toki Pona (nasin nasa webcomic)

#6 -Amazing Comic in Toki Pona (nasin nasa webcomic)

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Shownotes

1:20 Toki Pona Proverbs 

"ale li jo e tempo"

2:30 sitelen sitelen - Jonathan Gabel

4:16 "ale li pona"

5:00 nasin nasa (webcomic) by: Vacon Sartirani

9:40 Translation Challenge ep #6 

"We should do neither, trusting everyone is as much a fault as trusting no one."  -Seneca

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May 14, 202010:54
#5 -The Toki Pona Learning Process with Guest Jan Kapu

#5 -The Toki Pona Learning Process with Guest Jan Kapu

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This weeks translation challenge will be found in the community, send your translation and be a part of the show!

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Thank you to Jan Kapu for sending the first voicenote to the show. Jan Kapu also explained his process towards learning Toki Pona!

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May 07, 202016:33
#4 -What Are The Best Apps To Learn Toki Pona?

#4 -What Are The Best Apps To Learn Toki Pona?

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Nothing replaces a good old book to learn a language, but this week I share some of the applications I use to improve my Toki Pona Learning experience.

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Apr 30, 202013:51
#3 -Toki Pona Community and the Making of This Podcast

#3 -Toki Pona Community and the Making of This Podcast

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Apr 23, 202009:25
#2 -Why is Toki Pona so Simple?

#2 -Why is Toki Pona so Simple?

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This is day 8 of learning Toki Pona. In this episode I talk about why Toki Pona chooses to be simple and the advantages it has.

This is how much time I've currently dedicate to learn Toki Pona.

Day 8

288 Minutes = 4.8 Hours = 4 Hours, 47 Minutes and 59 Seconds

Example:

How to say car in Toki Pona.

from a passanger's point of view.

car tomo tawa

an indoor compartment that moves

From a driver's point of view

ilo tawa

(Machine for going)

From the perspective of someone being hit by a car

kiwen tawa

(hard object that moves)


Mar 02, 202015:25
#1 -The Toki Pona Podcast Intro

#1 -The Toki Pona Podcast Intro

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This podcast is currently ad free, only with help from Patreon will I be able to keep creating it.

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This is an introduction to The Toki Pona Podcast, this podcast is all about documenting my process learning Toki Pona.

This is day 1 of my journey to learn Toki Pona, the goal of this podcast is to be fully spoken Toki Pona, but until then I will do it in English.

There will be a transition period where I as I learn it I will use more Toki Pona until I can fully speak it.

How I discovered Toki Pona
  • Watching memes in Esperanto
Feb 26, 202012:01