diff --git a/pages/tokipona/7a.md b/pages/tokipona/7a.md
index 6fbd003..6fad9eb 100644
--- a/pages/tokipona/7a.md
+++ b/pages/tokipona/7a.md
@@ -44,8 +44,16 @@ tomo Sakata".
 | t         | t, d                            |
 | w         | v, w, sometimes r               |
 
-To deal with several consonant or vowel sounds in a row, you can either remove
-one of them or add an extra one.
+To deal with several consonant or vowel sounds in a row, it's best to remove
+one of them, but as an alternative, you can add an extra syllable.
+
+If you're adding a syllable for a vowel sound, it usually goes with a "j" or "w"
+consonant, since they make the least sound (examples: the continent of Asia is
+"ma Asija" and the country of Eritrea is "ma Eliteja").
+
+If you're adding a syllable for a consonant, the vowel is either repeated from
+the last syllable or "u" (examples: Iceland(Ísland) is "ma Isilan" and Scotland
+is "ma Sukosi").
 
 For names of cities, it's best to use pronunciations that people _in_ that city
 would use. For example, the city of Toronto, Canada is transcribed in the
@@ -56,12 +64,12 @@ refer to their country's people or language. For example, the native name for
 Japan is pronounced "Nippon", but the one for Japanese people and the language
 is "Nihonjin" and "Nihongo" respectively. The latter two are used to create the
 unofficial word "Nijon". Similarly, the name for Sweden is "Wensa", derived from
-"Svenska" ("Swedish").
+"svenska" ("Swedish").
 
 A rule some people use is that, if the resulting unofficial word sounds exactly
 like a native toki pona word, then the unofficial word is modified. For example,
 the name "Mary" (from which "meli" is already derived from) is typically turned
-into "jan Mewi" instead.
+into "jan Mewi" instead to avoid confusion.
 
 There are other rules, and interpretations of them differ. The "o kama sona e
 toki pona!" course features [this
diff --git a/pages/tokipona/x1.md b/pages/tokipona/x1.md
index 053c145..898cbc8 100644
--- a/pages/tokipona/x1.md
+++ b/pages/tokipona/x1.md
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ people or anyone in the LGBT community.
 
 In addition, the word "kule" (color) is sometimes given an additional meaning --
 sometimes "gender", sometimes "LGBT". At first, this might raise questions, such
-as "what about 'people of color'?", but in the toki pona community, a person's
-race or skin color is usually mentioned directly (e.g. "white person" is "jan pi
-selo walo", "person of white skin").
+as "what about phrases like 'people of color'?", but in the toki pona community,
+a person's race or skin color is usually mentioned directly (e.g. "white person"
+is "jan pi selo walo", "person of white skin").
 
 ## Joke words