% Recommendations from 2020-2021
% kala Asi + /dev/urandom
% 2024-08-22

jan Lentan wrote a list of recommended websites in April 2020--May 2021.
The community has changed significantly since then, so most of them are not
currently relevant to show on the front page, and required a complete rewrite.
However I felt like it would be best to keep the list intact for as a piece of
community legacy from that era, for those who like that kind of stuff.

~ kala Asi

## Software

Here are links to some software that I personally found useful:

* ["ding" dictionary tool](http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/ding/) is a
simple-looking and easy to use dictionary tool that, by default, comes bundled
with German-to-English dictionaries, but toki pona-to-English files for it are
also available [on this
page](https://jan-lope.github.io/Toki_Pona_lessons_English/).

* [toki pona keyboard](https://github.com/timeopochin/tokiponakeyboard) for
  Android phones. Supports both Latin (with some sitelen pona font features) and
  sitelen emoji. (WIP)

* [ilo pi sitelen pona](https://ilo-pi-sitelen-pona.glitch.me/): a web-based
  tool that converts Latin-based toki pona into UCSUR-compatible sitelen pona.

## Other courses online

* [Jonathan Gabel's lessons](https://jonathangabel.com/toki-pona) teach both
  toki pona as a language and "sitelen sitelen", a rather ornamental-looking (if
  uncommon in general usage) writing system for toki pona.

## Useful resources

Apart from the above-mentioned book and courses, here are some good resources
and links for people who want to learn or use toki pona:

* [tokipona.net](http://tokipona.net) (warning: if your "HTTPS Everywhere" addon
  is set to "Encrypt All Sites Eligible", disable it for tokipona.net, or else
  it will redirect you to an unrelated website)

* ["lipu lili pona", a description of toki pona's rules and vocabulary on 2 
 pages](https://neocities.org/site/lipu-lili-pona)

* [Another description of toki pona's rules and vocab on 2
  pages](https://morr.cc/toki-pona-cheat-sheet/)

* [A toki pona dictionary with sitelen pona
 characters](https://theotherwebsite.com/tokipona/) by "The Other Website"

* [toki pona flashcards for Anki](https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/toki%20pona)

  * [flashcards based on this
website](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/204928497), by u/parentis\_shotgun

* [jan Sotan's description of his personal style, including the informal "tok'
  apona" dialect](https://github.com/ae-dschorsaanjo/lipu-lili-pi-toki-pona)

## Other people's original works

* ["musi lili"](https://musilili.net/), a page by jan Same

* [lipu kule, a blog with posts in toki pona by various
  people](https://lipukule.org/)

* ["lipu tenpo", a toki pona magazine](https://liputenpo.org/)

* [lipu Wikipesija, a recent project to make a toki pona
 Wikipedia](https://wikipesija.org)

* [nasin tenpo pona](https://weatherwhim.github.io/nasin-tenpo-pona/), a
  calendar system that uses toki pona words

### Discussion groups and chats

* [/r/tokipona subreddit](https://reddit.com/r/tokipona)

* ["ma pona pi toki pona" Discord server](https://discord.gg/Byqn5z9)

* [toki pona Telegram group](https://telegram.me/joinchat/BLVsYz92zHUp2h2TYp9kTA)
  * [IRC channel #tokipona on Freenode, bridged with the Telegram group](ircs://freenode.org:6697/#tokipona)

* ["kulupu pi toki pona" Telegram group](https://t.me/kulupupitokipona) (this
  one is usually more about talking _in_ toki pona)