About

ilo kama sona ("learning tool") is a course in toki pona. It covers the words of pu and ku suli, all of the grammar, and how to express yourself with them.

How it teaches

• Retrieval practice. You learn by recalling, not rereading. Almost everything here is a question.
• Spaced repetition. Every word and grammar pattern is scheduled with FSRS, which brings it back just before you'd forget it.
• Short explicit explanations. Each unit begins with a brief note on the rule, followed by plenty of examples.
• From recognition to production. Lessons start with choosing, move on to assembling sentences, and end with writing your own.
• Interleaving. Lessons mix in earlier material, and reviews mix everything.
• Practice until correct. Mistakes come back later in the same session.
• Real sentences. Exercises use only words you've learned, drawn from thousands of sentences written by toki pona speakers.

Sources

• Word definitions from Linku, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
• Example sentences from Tatoeba, licensed under CC BY 2.0 FR. Each exercise links to its original sentence and contributors.
• toki pona was created by Sonja Lang. Read Toki Pona: The Language of Good (pu) and the Toki Pona Dictionary (ku).