jansegersTo motivate yourself to learn a language like toki pona, you got to get lingua franca thinking out of your mind. toki pona is not and will never be a language for substantive communication between people who otherwise couldn't communicate.
People are reporting being able to write texts and read texts after about 30 hours of study. This is the least expensive language learning experiment I know of. A similar amount of study for something prestigious like French would leave you unable to read or say anything at all.
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