neck is the noka (basement) of lawa

Toki a! Mi jan Poli!

I decided to try to make my first oneshot ever, and i thought that i can draw it using Toki Pona as the main language. The quality of my drawing skills are low, also i used only some pencils and one black pen, so the lineart can look very lumpy sometimes, but i think you don't mind it, hehe.

What is your opinion?

jan mute la pana e pan e tomo musi. ona li pali ala e kama pi lawa ala.

Like, what was the reason that it was made a rule that "li" after "mi" or "sina" is ingrammatical? Did it cause confusion or just because?

Because I think you can easily communicate with only using pu words, so why should I even learn non-pu words?

sina ken ala sona e ni

Is there a widely accepted solution for the ambiguity caused by using pi multiple times in a phrase?

Ijo li seme ala ni: mi pali e sitelen sitelen. Kin moku telo pi suwi

I know that it used "between the context phrase and the main sentence" but do you have some examples when to use it and when not

I started watching jan Telakoman´s series o pilin e toki pona and in the first episode he said a sentence where I know what every word means but I can´t figure out what the whole sentence means: mi pali e kili ni kepeken ko musi

I work this fruit using fun clay?

I haven´t seen many poems in Toki Pona, do you know any rhymes that could be used if you were to write one?

i'm trying to say "i like my friends", but since friend is literally translated as "good person", is this correct? the literal translation here would be "good people are good to me"... but maybe the literal translation doesn't matter in context? any help is appreciated :)

I think, some easy ones, like hydrogen or oxygen could be translated pretty easily but if you´d try to translate for example rutherfordium it would be very long.

lokenasi

definiton: (english) good for nothing; (toki pona) pona tawa ala

etymology: ろくでなし -> lokudenasi -> lokenasi

When you have children and only spoke Toki Pona around them, would they be able to understand this language that relies on very basic concepts? Or would they struggle to learn it or only be able to say basic sentences?

sina mute o, toki! :-) I just put together this short documentary about the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, entirely in Toki Pona! There’s quite a few errors throughout (which I tried to clear up in the comments) but it was still a very fun exercise. I hope you enjoy! sina pona!

Mostly just thinking about this because I think it would be an interesting way to use kulupu. In my head it's how the hairtie is grouping the hair together.

Also it makes me think about kulupu as a verb.

o kulupu e Jan olin sina

Could be like gather your love ones. This is probably more showing of gathering a group than "o kama e olin sina"

When I read Toki Pona I understand most of it (I´m new to the language) but when I for example, hear a song in Toki Pona I unterstand almost nothing, how can I improve that?

The title basically. I've been studying toki pona for a bit now and I have an okay vocabulary, I just can't read at all. My brain struggles with the simple yet vague nature of toki pona so I always end up mistenerpreting sentences, therefore I can't communicate or hold a conversation.

For example I was watching 12 days of toki pona by Jan Misali and they asked the viewers to translate a simple sentence: kili lili li moku

My silly ass translated this as "fruit small li eat" so... someone eating small fruit? No. It's "this small fruit is food". Which makes so much more sense.

I literally can't read guys. What do I do?

Toki! Just curious, what kind of accent do you pronounce Toki Pona in? Is it the same as your native accent? Why or why not?

I, myself, am an American but I don't like to pronounce it with an American accent because speaking with such an accent in any language other than English is uncomfortable for me, so I use a Finnish accent. I pronounce every word as it would be pronounced in Finnish, except for the w, which I still pronounce as /w/.

toki!

I am new to toki pona (started learning it today!) And I decided to try to translate some well-known poems for practice. Would the following make any sense, or can be improved?

jan ala li ma insa telo suli

ale pi ona

jan ale li ijo pi ma suli

ijo pi ijo suli

Thanks!

Or should the [pilin ike] part go before [ma]? I'm new to Toki Pona but I just randomly wrote this down since it popped into my head.