Wasona: a crash course into Toki Pona
Part 1: first steps!
Talk about animals, people, places, and activities.
Learn your first 40 words!
At the end of this part, you will read a short story.
- introduction
- lesson 1: pronunciation
- lesson 2: two writing systems
- lesson 3: simple sentences
- lesson 4: adjectives
- lesson 5: parts of speech
- lesson 6: pronouns
- lesson 7: names
- lesson 8: prepositions
- lesson 9: activities
- lesson 10: intermission 1
Part 2: keep going!
Talk about home, materials, society, and be expressive.
Learn your next 39 words!
At the end of this part, you will read a dialogue.
- lesson 11: home
- lesson 12: requests
- lesson 13: elements
- lesson 14: negation
- lesson 15: with and like
- lesson 16: society
- lesson 17: questions
- lesson 18: feelings
- lesson 19: intermission 2
Part 3: wrapping up!
Talk about time, space, numbers, colours, and more!
Finish learning your 131 words!
- lesson 20: time
- lesson 21: nature
- lesson 22: very lovely cats
- lesson 23: places
- lesson 24: body
- lesson 25: numbers
- lesson 26: love and identity
- lesson 27: colours
- lesson 28: moo!
- lesson 29: intermission 3
Q&A!
Some finer details that aren’t necessary to know, but you might be interested in!
- Q: what other Toki Pona courses are there?
- Q: does Toki Pona pronunciation vary among different speakers?
- Q: how can I type sitelen pona?
- Q: what’s the third most popular writing system for Toki Pona?
- Q: does ‘li’ mean ‘is’?
- Q: what’s my name in Toki Pona?
- Q: in sitelen pona, names look long. How can I make them shorter?
- Q: do I have to memorise language and country names?
- Q: isn’t ‘jan li toki Inli’ a bit strange?
- Q: are there any more preverbs?
- Q: how do you say ‘to do’?
- Q: how do I talk about large numbers?
- Q: what is jan Sonja up to these days?
- Q: what other, uncommon words might I encounter?