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+# toki pona guide
+
+## Learning the language
+
+- [jan Lentan's lessons](https://devurandom.xyz/tokipona/). By far the best guide for learning the language.
+- [jan Misali's 12 days of toki pona](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L-dvvng4Zc). Not as good as jan Lentan's lessons, but serves as a speedy introduction to the vocab.
+
+## Vocabulary
+
+- Download a client for the spaced-repetition software, [Anki](https://apps.ankiweb.net/). 
+  - [AnkiDroid for Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ichi2.anki)
+
+- [Shared Deck of all the current popular words](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1075479788) (~137 words as of 2022, known as *pu + nimi ku suli*).
+- [Shared Deck of all the phrases from jan Lentan's lessons.](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/204928497)
+- You can find other shared decks [here](https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/toki%20pona).
+
+## Listening / Fluency
+
+- [Youtube channel - ma pi toki pona](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQTppoxw6lJTtvr9ZRIjmgg) . Has lots of fluent speakers having conversations about different topics.
+
+## Other resources
+
+- [ku - the toki pona dictionary](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0978292367/)
+- [pu - toki pona: the language of good (first book)](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0978292308)
+