Is it possible to learn a new language in 48 hours?
BenWhately | 13 November 2014

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Reflections on Toki Pona
Toki Pona is an interesting experiment. I’m unclear whether or not I would recommend people learn it. It did help me think about a problem I had had recently in Russian, with trying to translate directly from my English thoughts. Toki Pona is so simple that it forces you to re-think your original idea, down to the core concepts and I think this is something that benefits me in Russian as well. I need to move away from trying to translate English into Russian when I speak.

Toki Pona is very, very easy to learn though, so even if the benefits of learning it is somewhat limited, it’s still a very small time investment compared to any other language. As long as you go through the official book, which can be done in a few hours, you should be ready to form sentences in Toki Pona.

Listening and understanding will take a bit longer, but that’s not a problem. Last Polyglot Gathering in Berlin there were a handful of Toki Pona speakers, so that’s at least one venue to practice.
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