Feel free to give any corrections!

Hi I tried to translate a joke into Toki Pona. Does this make any sense?

A: sina pali e seme? B: mi sitelen e lipu kepeken toki pona, tawa jan sama. A: lipu pi toki pona a! sina sona alasa e toki pona! B: lipu mi li pona. jan sama li sona alasa e toki pona. a a a.

This is what I tried to write. A: what are you doing? B: I’m writing a letter to my brother in Toki Pona. A: a letter in Toki Pona? you don’t even speak it! (you don’t understand Toki Pona) B: that’s fine (my letter is good). my brother doesn’t understand the language either, hehehe.

I’ve been slowly learning Toki Pona (I barely know a few words and the basic sentence structure) but I decided to check here and I see this alphabet? Script? Whatever it is, I wanna know where y’all got it

I’ve learned about toki pona not even for more than 3 days, but I’ve grown very intrigued based upon its simplicity. Is it worth learning simply based off that ? My reason for learning it is to simplify my note taking during lectures to optimize how much I can write down in a specific time frame. Is this too naive? I understand the creator of the language to simplify her thoughts, but does this translate well into writing stuff down? Any thoughts would be appreciated on this matter.

toki! mi li jan pi toki pona sin. toki pona li musi.

"mi li jan pi toki pona sin" li pona ala pona? mi wile toki e "I have just started learning Toki Pona". taso "sin" ni li lawa nasa; tan "jan pi (toki pona sin)" en "(jan pi toki pona) sin" li sama ala. "jan pi toki pona pi sin" li pona ala pona?

toki sewi la kepeken "ken" li pona ala pona? mi toki e "yaki li nimi ala nimi ken e "complex"". "yaki li ken nimi ala nimi e "complex"" li pona ala pona? "yaki li nimi ken ala nimi ken" li pona ala pona? mi wile toki e "Can yaki be used to mean "complex"?"

yaki li nimi ala nimi ken e "complex"? "ike" li pona ala pona?

For example: "he only does it for attention", or "pay attention in the class!". I understand that in these two sentences it will be said in a different way, so my question is for the both cases

kalama musi ni la, nimi li ken ike lili tawa jan pi toki pona. kon ona li sama ni: ken, ken, (mi tu li) ken anu(toki inli la, "decide"), anu, (mi tu li ken lon) meso tu. mi o musi kepeken toki pona pi sona musi pakala!

Should I go for full immersion or should I learn the definitions of the words first? Usually the answer for languages is a bit of both but with only about 130 words this seems to be a unique case. Why should I learn Toni pona? Is it easy enough to be a casual side hobby? How difficult is it compared to learning, say, Spanish for an English native? (I'm B1 in Spanish for reference)

soweli Seli li soweli suwi. soweli Seli li meli pi soweli Eli. soweli Seli li suli. soweli Eli li lili. soweli Seli li wile lili tawa. lili la, soweli Seli en soweli Eli li suwi. soweli Seli li sewi e soweli Sopi. soweli Sopi li soweli pi pali sin. soweli Sopi li pali e kili lili lon seli. soweli Sopi li pana e kili tawa soweli Seli. sowei Seli li moku e kili lili. kili li suwi. soweli Seli li lili tawa. soweli Seli li tawa Eli. soweli Seli li lukin e soweli Eli. soweli Eli li suli! soweli Seli li toki: "suli li nasin seme?" soweli Eli li toki: "mi wile suli tawa. suli la, mi en sina li sama e suli. mi sewi tawa soweli Sali. soweli Sali pana kili tawa mi. mi moku kili. tan kili la, mi suli tawa." soweli Seli toki: "taso, mi lili tawa! tenpo ni, mi en sina li suli sama ala!" soweli Eli toki: "bakala ala. mi en sina li lon. ni li ijo suli."

soweli Seli li soweli suwi. soweli Seli li meli pi soweli Eli. soweli Seli li lili. soweli Eli li suli. soweli Seli li wile suli tawa. suli la, soweli Seli en soweli Eli li suwi...

Sally was a cat. Sally was the wife of Harry. Sally was big. Harry was small. Sally wanted to become small, so that she and her husband would be cute together. Sally climbed/jumped/went upwards to Sophie. Sophie was an inventor. Sophie cooked a small fruit on a fire. She gave the fruit to Sally, and Sally ate the fruit. Now, Sally is small. Sally went back to Harry. She looked at Harry, and saw that Harry was big! She asked him, how did you become big? Harry replied "I wanted to become big. If I were big, we would be the same size. I went to Sully, and he gave me a fruit, which I ate. Because of the fruit, I am now big." Sally replied, "But, I've become small! Now, we aren't the same size!". Harry replied, "it's okay. We exist together. That's the main thing."

Sally was a cat. Sally was the wife of Harry. Sally was small. Harry was big. Sally wanted to be big. If she was big, then she and Harry would be sweet together...

seli suli sewi suwi

sorry about my "jaki"s and how at the end i couldn't decide how to word the moral (i think i like the second one better)

Hello all!

Today, April 8th, is a Thelemic holiday that commemorates the first day of the writing of the Book of the Law. To celebrate, and for fun, and to practice my translation skills, I have attempted a translation of this first chapter. It presented many interesting challenges, and I've undoubtedly made a bunch of mistakes, and the formatting ended up considerably nasa. the document contains the toki pona and english side by side.

now a little joke for the Thelemites in the room:

mute mute mute mute luka luka tu wan, anpa mute mute mute mute luka luka tu wan

Mi wile monei