Polyglot Gathering 2020

Program

In addition to the program below, there will be a free chatroom available during the entire time. The talks will last 45 minutes.

The Polyglot Gathering wants to offer a networking place for language lovers who are looking for business opportunities and collaborations. Here you can also share job opportunities, ask for advice or keep the polyglot tribe posted on the progress you make with your business idea. We also want to give the PG participants the opportunity to keep in touch on business-related matters. Is there a person you talked to and you missed the chance to get their contact details? Here is the place where to find them! You will find here also interesting material about business development, business coaching and personal development. Join the Polyglot Gathering Networking community now!

We reserve rights to change the program.

Friday, May 29th, 2020

TimeRoom 1Room 2Language practice room 1Language practice room 2Language practice room 3Language practice room 4Language practice room 5
15:00Language crash course: Polish
Szabolcs Szilva
Language crash course: Esperanto
Tim Morley
TurkishEnglishRussianArabicDutch
16:00Language crash course: Italian
Elisa Polese
Language crash course: Klingon
André Müller
FinnishSerbo-CroatianEsperantoUkrainianHebrew
17:00Opening session
18:009 practical lessons from learning 9 languages
Lýdia Machová
English
Language Learning Around the World
Tobias Dickmeis
English
LithuanianHindiPolishSwedishCatalan
19:00Decoding Movies - How hearing and transcribing audio content can boost your skills in a foreign language
Jobst Upmeier
English
Foreign languages in modern diplomacy
Piotr Kozlowski
English
HungarianJapaneseGermanGreekSerbo-Croatian
20:00Panel discussion: raising multilingual childrenLanguage crash course: Na’vi
André Müller
RomanianLatinSlovakDanishNorwegian
21:00Epic polyglot quiz showFrenchSpanishChineseFinnishEnglish
22:00Comedy quiz: IKEA product or swear word?
Tim Morley
PersianItalianBulgarianPortugueseArabic
23:00GalicianCzechLatvianHindiGerman

Saturday, May 30th, 2020

TimeRoom 1Room 2Language practice room 1Language practice room 2Language practice room 3Language practice room 4Language practice room 5
00:00KoreanIndonesianFrenchJapaneseSpanish
01:00
02:00
03:00
04:00
05:00
06:00
07:00
08:00KoreanEsperantoPolishSpanishHebrew
09:00MalayCantoneseIndonesianGermanChinese
10:00Esperanto and the United Nations: Challenges on Language and Cultures of the World
Rakoen Maertens
English
Is Lithuanian the Oldest Language?
Olga Olina
English
VietnamesePortugueseHindiRussianCzech
11:00Do you speak business? – How languages can or can’t impact your career
Aleksandar Medjedovic
English
Don't Misunderestimate Brexit: the Politics of Language Evolution
Judith Meyer
English
SwedishThaiHungarianSlovakJapanese
12:00Four language skills, twelve learning tips
Gareth Popkins
English
Public Speaking for language learning
Marta Melnyk
Polish
PersianToki PonaFrenchItalianDutch
13:0010 Golden Rules for Great Pronunciation in Any Language
Luca Lampariello
English
Kak početi učenje naslědnogo slovjanskogo jezyka? / Как почети учење наслєдного словјанского језыка?
Rafał Darasz
Interslavic, English
PunjabiAfrikaansPolishGermanGreek
14:00CatalanUrduFinnishSpanishArabic
15:00Start speaking Polish now!
Ewa Hogarth-Jones
English
Me in Belarusian – basics of the endangered language
Albert Wierzbicki
Russian, English
DanishTurkishEsperantoRussianHebrew
16:00Unlocking the hidden meanings of everyday words
Emily Martyn, Brian Loo Soon Hua
English
W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie, czyli wszystko o wymowie języka polskiego
Zuzanna Wilk
Polish
Upper SorbianNorwegianLatinChinesePortuguese
17:00Using the Listening-Reading method
Rick Dearman
English
Papia kristang y chavacano: Una historia de dos criollos de base ibérica en el Sudeste Asiático
Steven Neoh
Spanish
YiddishBelarusianSlovakItalianSwahili
18:00The importance of learning and teaching idiomatic language
Chris Bain
English
Mexico – the paradise for polyglots and language lovers
Anja Spilker
Spanish
HungarianIrishUkrainianArabicGreek
19:00Do I Detect An Accent?
Ruben Adery
English
Ponme una chela: Diferencias (y similitudes) entre el español de México y el de España
Nacho Caballero
Spanish
IcelandicSerbo-CroatianPolishCzechSwedish
20:00Panel discussion: multilingual learningLanguage crash course: Irish
Benny Lewis
ArmenianFrenchGermanItalianLithuanian
21:00Multilingual concert
JoMo
Epic polyglot quiz showDutchJapaneseScottish GaelicPortugueseTibetan
22:00SpanishEsperantoUkrainianCatalanBulgarian
23:00EnglishRussianDanishBasqueNorwegian

Sunday, May 31st, 2020

TimeRoom 1Room 2Language practice room 1Language practice room 2Language practice room 3Language practice room 4Language practice room 5
00:00FinnishSloveneArabicChineseTurkish
01:00
02:00
03:00
04:00
05:00
06:00
07:00
08:00EsperantoJapaneseFrenchUkrainianGreek
09:00HindiRomanianPolishRussianChinese
10:00Circassian: The endangered language of the Northern Caucasus
Umut Uğrak
English
Hakka Chinese, by a Latin American heritage speaker
Johnny Enrique Lee Othon
German
VietnameseMalayIcelandicNorwegianDutch
11:00Introduction to Basque
Siru Laine
English
Kann man eine Fremdsprache kostenlos lernen?
Maria Spantidi
German
PersianIrishBelarusianGermanCzech
12:00Big Data and Language Learning: How HelloTalk is Dealing with New Challenges in the Language Learning World
Michael Liubymov
English
Self-mastery in language learning
Nicolò Violini
English
MacedonianKlingonIndonesianItalianHebrew
13:00An iconic language beyond Emoji, for the social networks of the future.
Cesco Reale
English
Por quê é que as pessoas acham que o português de Portugal soa como o russo? Introdução à fonologia da língua portuguesa.
Piotr Cios
Portuguese
DanishSwedishBasqueSpanishCantonese
14:00NepaliSerbo-CroatianTurkishUkrainianPortuguese
15:00How to develop speaking skills without talking?
András Orisek
English
Use linguistics for your personal language learning
Patrick Geneit
German, English
GeorgianKoreanSloveneSlovakSwedish
16:00Lessons from Neuroscience for Language Learners
Xaver Funk
English
Why Sign Language was and will always be an International Language
Heiko Burak
German
HungarianLatvianEnglishFrenchDutch
17:00Unique ways of expression: The favorable world of untranslatable words
Andriana Mourti
English
Speaking multiple languages from day one
Ana Jimena Aguilar Castro
French
YiddishAfrikaansBulgarianEsperantoThai
18:00When can I say I speak a language?
Richard Simcott
English
Learn Italian the smart way!
Elisa Polese
Italian, English
LithuanianSwahiliPolishArabicChinese
19:00ClosingCzechGreekCatalanRussianHebrew
20:00Discussion with moderator: Opinions divergentes about langue policies – Debatte between Helder De Schutter und Michele Gazzola
Moderator: Cesco Reale
English, French, German
Language crash course: Quenya
Marta Melnyk
GalicianSerbo-CroatianUkrainianItalianSwedish
21:00Polyglots got talent LatinDanishBulgarianHungarianBreton
22:00NorwegianRomanianSlovakSpanishCatalan
23:00HindiFrenchPolishGermanIdo

Monday, June 1st, 2020

TimeRoom 1Room 2Language practice room 1Language practice room 2Language practice room 3Language practice room 4Language practice room 5
00:00ArabicJapanesePortugueseToki PonaSlovak
01:00
02:00
03:00
04:00
05:00
06:00
07:00
08:00
09:00
10:00KoreanFrenchRussianArabicJapanese
11:00Interview in 6 languages of two siblings with 5 mother tongues: Llorenç and Julia Muela
Cesco Reale
Swiss German, Catalan, Spanish, French, German, with interpretation to English
TurkishIndonesianEsperantoSlovakDutch
12:00Lightning talks PersianEnglishLatinUkrainianHebrew
13:00Children teach children
Lisa Kalugina
English
Reformita Esperanto
Petr Fedosov
Esperanto
FinnishPolishItalianChineseCzech
14:00A.S.A.P. Approach for guaranteed satisfaction in raising bilingual and multilingual children.
Tetsu Yung
English
Teaching languages at school - Implementing polyglot techniques within the classroom
Gabriel Pablo Cortiñas
Italian
Serbo-CroatianRomanianGermanSpanishGreek