Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (2015)

In high school I was the founder of our (small) Esperanto Club. I gave Esperanto lessons each week at our club meeting designed as a one year course, usually by the end of the year if someone attended each week and did moderate self study outside of class they could communicate in Esperanto really well. We even had one international student who really struggled with english that after a few months of attending our club could communicate with us in…

Toki Pona is great as an introduction into language learning. As many English speaking people seem to be functionally monolingual they could greatly benefit from learning it. It would probably be the human language equivalent of a pure Java programmer spending a weekend hacking Lisp in broadening your horizon. Even if you don't end up using Toki Pona, you will still benefit greatly from it. Due to its small size you will be able to acquire a certain "mastery" over…