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This is a list of learning resources for Toki Pona. For a curated list, see Recommended learning resources.

Lessons

Written lessons

• Learn Toki Pona! by jan Kekan San
• lipu sona pona by jan Lentan
  • German translation by jan Ke Tami, Murdock
  • Esperanto translation by acreativename41, jan Pensa, soweli suno (Eriko)
  • Polish translation by Maksymilian Król (jan Otele) and Alicja (jan Alise)
  • Portuguese translation by Alice de Paula (jan Alise)
  • Russian translation by jan Lentan
• lipu sona by soweli Tesa
  • French translation by jan Aleko
  • Italian translation by mun Sijala
  • Norwegian translation by soweli Tesa
• Updated jan Pije's lessons on Wikibooks
• Lessons of Toki Pona, author unknown (2017)

Video lessons

• Toki Pona in 18 Minutes by ilo Tani (2023)
• o pilin e toki pona by jan Telakoman (2023)
• 12 Days of sona pi toki pona by jan Misali (2015)
  • Esperanto translation by Eterna Krokodilanto (2021)
  • French translation by Bruno Bord (2020)
  • Spanish translation (incomplete, 6 videos, 2021)
• Learn toki pona in a fortnight (14 video lessons) by jan Mali (2014)
• Learn Toki Pona with Chris (5 video lessons, 2015–2016)
• Learn Toki Pona! (video lessons) by jan Kekan San (2022–2023)
• o kama sona e sitelen pona (13 video lessons about sitelen pona) by jan Same (2019)

Non-English lessons

• Lessons in Chinese
• Lessons in Dutch (archive) by Dennis Rijnvis
• Lessons in Esperanto
• Lessons in Esperanto
• Lessons in French (another link, another link 2, another link 3, another link 4)
• Lessons in Hebrew
• Lessons in Indonesian by jan Lekakosi
• Lessons in Italian
• Lessons in Japanese
• Lessons in Japanese
• Lessons in Korean
• Lessons in Lingua Franca Nova
• Lessons in Persian
• Lessons in Polish
• Lessons in Russian (another link by jan Sawiku, another link)
• Lessons in Slovak by jan Nowo

Lessons for historical usage

The subject of this article is historical information that is presented for completeness, and might not reflect current usage.

• Original lessons (first course to be posted online by jan Sonja, 2001)
• Lessons by jan Pije (o kama sona e toki pona!)
  • Catalan translation (PDF, on Wikibooks) by Lluís Batlle (2004)
• Lessons (controversial) by jan Lope (2004–2020)
  • German translation
  • Archived (2004): Index, Contents)
• Baza Lecionaro de Tokipono (in Esperanto) (archived) by jan Jakopo (2006)
• Lessons by jan Kalen (last updated 2008)
• Toki Pona in 76 illustrated lessons (in Spanish, website, PDF) by Eliazar Parra Cárdenas (2004)
  • Translation into English by Dave Raferty (2009)
• Twitter lessons by jan Mato (2011–2013)
• Reddit Toki Pona Course by jan Kapi (2012)
• Simple Toki Pona lessons idea by Dave Raftery (2013)

Grammars

• Overview by A. Hemmetter (2018)
• Toki Pona Analysis: Parts of Speech by kala kala (2019)
• Grammar by jan Sotan (2019)
• Toki Pona Word Classes and Parts of Speech by jan Tepan (2019)
• toki ike (comments on Toki Pona usage) by jan Tepan (2019)
• nasin toki pona by jan Juli (2022)

Flash cards

• Memrise course by solpahi
• Cram flash cards
• Quizlet flash card courses