questions (toki pona lesson four)

the fourth in a twelve-part series about toki pona

words taught in this video:
seme: what, which
pilin: feel
jo: have
suwi: sweet
nasa: strange, unusual
anu: or
kili: fruit, vegetable
kasi: plant
pan: grain, grain-based food
kiwen: rock-like object (hard and solid thing)
palisa: stick-like object (long inflexible thing)
linja: rope-like object (long flexible thing)

[HBMmaster]

if you're wondering why this series has been on hiatus for so long I explained that at 14:43 in this video.

[Pacca]

Minecraft has a Toki Pona option in the language settings! It's great for adding to and reinforcing your vocab. I recognize suwi, linja, palisa, and kiwen by sight already!

[evelynminer]

"The Small House or the Bigness" is the name of my next progressive black metal album I think

[numburger]

"The telo lete causes the lape to become lili" is me favoritest quote of all time

[BasketOfPuppies]

I love how vague toki pona can be. Like, telo nasa kili probably means wine, but I chose to translate it as strawberry daiquiri. And that’s completely valid!

[daniel-andersson]

A huge reason behind why I want to learn toki pona is that it just sounds weirdly magical when spoken. Something about the language just makes me inexplicably glad. Awesome to see a new lesson, thanks!

[janaki]

9:52
Don't forget to smash that pause button and hit the left arrow key to be reminded of important details!

[SeaShroom]

Don't give up on this series, this being the revamp of the original series has been amazing. My friends and i are learning a lot and enjoying it so much. Have a good one 👍

[glitchybrawl]

i fully know toki pona but i still love watching this series to see how you explain it, it's great!

[twerdeffan]

Thank you so much for making these videos!! I've always wanted to learn a language, but I always hit a wall before I'm able to construct any of the sentences I want to. Language learning has always felt like a weak point of mine, and your careful, laid-back, humorous teaching style, (along with the simplicity of toki pona) is the first thing that really makes me feel like I'm cracking a language, and that makes it feel so much more accessible. I'm truly sorry some people are giving you a hard time over releases. Thank you so much!

[kaengurus.sind.genossen]

Fun fact to lipu: In German, both a sheet of paper and a leaf are called "Blatt".

[sanstheblaster]

3:39 this has got to be the most subtle Rick Roll of all time

[yuvalne]

As someone who learned toki pona from your last series, I really appreciate how improved, thought out and just generally pona this series is. It is much more lesson-like, and I genuinely believe that a person could learn toki pona using this series and nothing else.
o awen pona!!

[SnoFitzroy]

I took ""telo nasa kili" a bit literal and understood it as "strange fruit water" - ie "their fruit juice is weird" which I understood as possibly spoiled food - other than that I got every translation pretty spot on which I'm _pilin pona a_ about

[oxygen]

something i like about toki pona is that when you are trying to figure out how to say something, you have to use more creativity than natural languages or many conlangs that have a larger vocabulary where words are more specific

[Fennaixelphox]

One time I dreamt that you and MatPat switched shows so that MatPat was the host of Conlang Critic and you were the host of Game Theory

[loiseauxmort]

Letsgo, new Toki Tutorial! I Loved the og series but I'm hype for this one as well!

[nyon]

The best analogy I can think of for how toki pona is vague, rather than ambiguous is laso, which means "Grue". Which is the term for greens, blues, and the colors inbetween.
In english, we have a color called "Royal Blue" which is a purplish navy, and navy is a dark blue, and blue is a grue that is more similar to water in color than it is to leaves.
Most words in English have definitions as narrow as "Royal Blue" or "Navy", while most words in toki pona are as broad as "Grue". Their still very well defined, but their scope is just broader.

[dunksi]

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[Shireke]

I've been paying a lot of attention on the lessons and taking notes and all, getting most questions wrong and doing it for the fun of it, feeling I probably have a lot of practice to get before I can actually make sentences

So when I actually got "mama mama li lukin e linja musi" completely right I started dancing out of joy