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Toki Pona, (vernunftzentrum.de), 07/20/2018
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Some unexpected medical expenses coupled with a shortage of
time mean I haven't purchased the Toki Pona book and I
haven't worked on learning yet. This is not good!
The solution, for now, is to spend some time memorizing the
120 basic words in the language. I've printed off a copy
from tokipona.net, which I'm going to set to work learning.
At one point, years ago, I memorized a large number of
French vocabulary words daily. I was living in France at the
time, and had plenty of opportunity to use the language as I
learned it, which helped a lot. My method for memorizing was
simple:
- Create lists of 10 words at at time I wished to memorize.
Say the word and the meaning, write the word and the
meaning in two columns, read aloud what I wrote. Read it
out loud several times, until I think I've got the 10 words
down. Cover the definition column and attempt to re-write
it from memory. Cover the word column and attempt to
re-write it from memory. Always speaking out loud (which is
important for my learning style.)
- When reading in the new language, write down every word
or phrase that I don't fully understand, and look them up.
Use those words to feed the vocabulary learning list.
- When a word or phrase is forgotten, re-learn it the same
way again.
It worked for me then. I am hopeful that it will work for
me now. With French, I tried to learn 10 new words a day.
At 10 words a day, Toki Pona would go quickly.
You have to have a goal, so my goal will be to learn 10
words per day for the next 12 days, all 120 words in the
basic dictionary. I had a lot less life on my plate back
when I was learning French, so we'll see how this works.
