 So about five or six days ago I made a video in which I spoke about both Esperanto and Tokipana and in that video I stated that I now had an interest in learning Tokipana specifically because I found some really cool stuff that was made for Tokipana and that made me explore the community a little bit more which in turn made me realize that the community was quite sizable now and therefore I had more of an interest in it because I need to give you guys a little bit of context about my brain and how it operates so I love really random communities like small communities or random communities but I don't like them being too small so that was a problem when I first discovered Tokipana many many years ago so I think like six plus years ago when I first discovered it I learned a tiny bit but the community quite well the community at that time was quite small and it was a bit too small for my liking so I didn't really stick around to see like what it would grow into or if it even continued to grow or whatnot because I'm the type of person who likes to engage in the community and also partake in a culture now I like to get into things when they're early and innovative but not too early I don't know if that's a good way of explaining it but anyway recently when I took a look at Tokipana it's now that lots of videos there's music there's lots of texts there's published books there's a lot more stuff for me to actually engage in and to put my claws into and kind of like nibble away at and I don't know why I'm making velociraptor hands right now but that's basically how my brain operates anyway I made that video and unbeknownst to me at the time lots of Tokipana speakers started leaving comments on it I don't know if that's because secretly hiding in my comment section is just a bunch of Tokipana speakers just waiting for their moment to pounce or if someone just shared it with the Tokipana community at large and then that brought some more interest over to my channel anyway I do want to say that that was very good that you guys all did that because that drove my interest in turn in fact if you have a look at the video you can see there is a ton of comments either in Tokipana or in English or even an Esperanto about Tokipana and basically saying you know they're really happy and excited to see that I've come to come learn this language and at the time for me Tokipana was one of my many languages that I was learning or planning to learn and it didn't take up too much my brain space but seeing all these like awesome comments specifically from like people's videos like this guy right here Jan Telakoman whose videos I was starting to watch made me like way more engaged in like this whole idea of learning this language so you guys are very smart about that if anyone shows any interest just like I don't know like huddle on top of them and then they will be like I am converted it's like a zombie like thing where you'll run on top of the next thing you know there's a new Tokipana zombie he's like coming out I don't know where that's leading I'm sorry guys but anyway it's been like six or so days since I declared my intention to learn this language and at the time I had a very very very small understanding of some Tokipana primarily via my ability to speak Esperanto because Esperanto has had an influence on Tokipana but you're probably more curious to know where I'm at actually Tokipana wise so I figured in this video I would speak a little bit of Tokipana about my history with the language now I do want to forewarn you I am not fluent I've probably done a cumulative four hours of study of Tokipana in the last six days or so which doesn't sound like much but it's actually quite a bit when you're working full-time studying multiple languages and you have a part-time job so I have dedicated some of my brain time to learning this language and I'm now going to attempt to go into the recesses of my brain and pull out the necessary words to tell you a really cut down summary of what I literally just said in English so before we get started I probably need a drink okay let's do this Yanpana En Mi Li Toki Mi Mute Toki Eio Mute Yanpana Mi Li Toki Eni Ivo Dia Mi Wille Eni Sina Kamasone E Tokipana Mi Toki Insa Eni Tokipana Tokipana Li Seme Mi Toki E Yanpana Mi Tokipana Li Seme Yanpana Mi Li Li Toki Eni Tokipana Li Toki Li Li Li Li Toki Wawa Li Toki Suli Mi Wille Eni Ni Kamasone E Tokipana Taso Tempo Nila Mi Yo Ala E Tempo Mute Mi Toki E Ni Tawa Yanpana Yanpana Mi Ni Li Pillen Anpa Li Pillen Anpa Taso Suno Luka Pinnila Mi Wille Luken E Sitalen Tawa Mute Mi Luken E Sitalen Tawa Ni Mi Luken E Sitalen Tawa Ni Mi Luken E Sitalen Tawa Musi Pi Toki Mi Luken E Sitalen Tawa Yani Li Toki E Toki Li Toki E Toki Mute Li Toki E Tokipana Mi Open Toki Insa Eni Tokipana Yanpana Mi Li Wille E Ni Mi Kamasone E Tokipana Mi Mi Alasa E Tokipana Kepeken Ilomi Ah Tokipana Oh Tokipana Li Suli Tokipana Yo Yanmute Kulupu Tokipana Li Suli Oh Tokipana Li Yo E Sitalen Tawa Li Yo E Yanmute Tempo Nila Mi Wille Toki E Mi Wille Sonakama E Tokipana Okay guys, I hope that wasn't too difficult for you to understand and I hope that I didn't utterly destroy the language. But that was my first attempt at speaking Tokipana beyond just like some basic phrases to myself. Like I basically been practicing a little bit by just like yelling at my cat. My cat, I feel sorry for my cats because they hear me yelling at them in English, Esparando, Chinese, German. Now Tokipana, they must be the most confused animals in the world. But anyway, that's where I'm at. I wanted to show you also a little bit what I've done with my Anki decks. So if you take a look at my screen right here, I've got two little Anki decks I've got here. So I've got this first one where I basically got, is that the right deck? Let me check. Yes, so this one is just like a whole heap of closed cards where I just do the fill in. And if you have a look at what I'm actually sentence mind here, I have sentence mind the bejesus out of, um, oh God. Oh God, I forgot his name. What's his name? Yan Telecoman. I've been watching this guy's video. This is literally how I've only been learning Tokipana. I've just been watching his videos and reading your comments. So I've been sentence minding him. So I'm probably going to sound very like him when I get to like a reasonable level. Anyway, and then I've also got over here, this other deck, which is basically just random words in, oh, there you go. I even put his name into the deck and I totally forgot his name. I'm so sorry. But this is where I've got like small little phrases that are audio, just so I can listen to them over and over again, because specifically with this word la, I don't know why, but my brain doesn't wrap its head around easily around it. But when I stack it together with like all these time ones, I see what it does here. Like I know in sentences, it means if blah, blah, blah, when blah, blah, blah, but it could also mean, you know, at this time or at this place, then blah, blah. And I seen the dictionary reference for it. So if you look at like la on here, where is it? Right here. They're like a particle between context, phrase and main sentence. See, to give you guys a little bit of information about myself, I don't really know much about grammar. Like I literally learned everything I know about grammar by learning Esperanto. And everything else I've learned about languages, I kind of just learned in context. So when I see something like this context, phrase and main sentence, I got a basic idea, but it doesn't mean anything to me until I start seeing like a whole heap of examples. And then I'm like, oh, now I get it. But that is where I am at Tokipona wise. Now to let you guys know what the plan is long term. So I make an Esperanto video every Sunday. And I'm thinking every Thursday I'm going to make a video either in English about Tokipona or in Tokipona about something. Now the goal is that eventually I will get to vlogging like I do in Esperanto and telling funny stories in Esperanto in Tokipona. But obviously that's going to take a while because my Tokipona at this stage is shocking. That in fact is my goal with many of my languages. My goal is to eventually also get to that stage with Chinese. So yeah, that's pretty much the plan. If you guys like this video, I hope you've liked it. That was like the worst way to stop a video, whatever. Bye.