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127 Native Speakers are Overrated - Reading has Helped Christina Learn 10 Foreign Languages so Far

My Fluent Podcast

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The History of Toki Pona

Toki Pona was an experiment in the Sapi'ivore hypothesis that says that language shapes your thoughts. If there's no word for something in a language, then it will be hard to talk about it. People are inventing new words just because people want those words. So you end up needing specific words if you want to talk about specific things.

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