Polyglot Gathering Online 2021

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Programme

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

This schedule is still a draft, small changes are possible.

Legend:

  • 🎤 – live workshop or talk with active participation of the audience
  • 🎧 – listening only, with a possibility to ask questions in writing at the end
  • 📼 – pre-recorded talk
  • ▶️ – talk you can rewatch later (up to one month after the end of the Polyglot Gathering)
  • ⭐ – sponsored talk

Wednesday, May 19th, 2021

TimeRoom 1Language practice room 1Language practice room 2Language practice room 3Language practice room 4Language practice room 5Language practice room 6
18:00KoreanEsperantoPolishHebrewSpanish (not yet fluent)Spanish (fluent)
19:00CatalanGreekDanishTagalogPortuguese (not yet fluent)Portuguese (fluent)
20:00🎧▶️ Opening ceremony
21:00🎤 Social activity: Intercultural communication
Elisa Polese
TurkishCantoneseIndonesian/MalayGerman (not yet fluent)JapaneseGerman (fluent)
22:00VietnamesePortuguese (not yet fluent)HindiRussianCzechPortuguese (fluent)
23:00SwedishThaiHungarianSlovakChinese (not yet fluent)Chinese (fluent)

Thursday, May 20th, 2021

TimeRoom 1Room 2Language practice room 1Language practice room 2Language practice room 3Language practice room 4Language practice room 5Language practice room 6
00:00PersianToki PonaFrench (not yet fluent)ItalianDutchFrench (fluent)
01:00PunjabiGerman (not yet fluent)German (fluent)
02:00ArabicSpanish (not yet fluent)Spanish (fluent)
03:00RussianEsperanto
04:00Chinese (not yet fluent)ItalianChinese (fluent)
05:00Portuguese (not yet fluent)SwahiliPortuguese (fluent)
06:00UkrainianGreek
07:00IcelandicSerbian/CroatianPolishSpanish (not yet fluent)VietnameseSpanish (fluent)
08:00ArmenianFrench (not yet fluent)DutchItalianLithuanianFrench (fluent)
09:00German (not yet fluent)JapaneseScottish GaelicCatalanTibetanGerman (fluent)
10:00CzechEsperantoUkrainianPortuguese (not yet fluent)BulgarianPortuguese (fluent)
11:00English (not yet fluent)RussianDanishBasqueNorwegian
12:00🎧▶️ Crash course in Slovak
Peter Roman
English
🎤 Language Learning with Netflix: Dicas para estudar idiomas sem perder um episódio sequer.
Diogo Pereira Almanacy
Portuguese
FinnishSloveneArabicChinese (not yet fluent)TurkishChinese (fluent)
13:00🎧▶️ Rumantsch – Get to know (and fall in love with) Switzerland’s endangered language
Lawrence Zünd
English
🎧▶️ Speak Italian from day one
Elisa Polese
English, Italian
KoreanFrench (not yet fluent)RussianArabicJapaneseFrench (fluent)
14:00🎧▶️ Interkultura Novelo-Konkurso
Nicolas Viau
Esperanto
🎤 Icon guessing – visual language game
KomunIKON team
Multilingual
TurkishIndonesian/MalayEsperantoSlovakDutch
15:00🎧▶️ Celtic Origins: Archaeologically Speaking
Johnnie Gallacher
English
🎧▶️⭐ J’étais une enseignante traditionnelle avant la pandémie
Marie
French
PersianEnglish (not yet fluent)LatinUkrainianPortuguese (not yet fluent)Portuguese (fluent)
16:00🎧▶️ Early intentional multilingualism (14 languages in a monolingual country)
Elizaveta Kalugina
English
🎤 Language crash course: Korean
Judy Um
French
German (not yet fluent)PolishItalianNorwegianCzechGerman (fluent)
17:00📼▶️⭐ Online Language Exchange Events: Reasons to join the community
Brian Heavey
English
🎤 Konjunktiv i germanska och romanska språk
Jan Marszałek
Swedish
Serbian/CroatianRomanianFinnishSpanish (not yet fluent)GreekSpanish (fluent)
18:00🎧▶️ Insights Gained from 365 Days of Recordings in 6 Languages
Jonathan Huggins
English
🎤 Crash course in Lezgi (East Caucasian language)
Piotr Kozłowski
English
HebrewEnglish (not yet fluent)EsperantoChinese (not yet fluent)IcelandicChinese (fluent)
19:00🎧▶️ Fonetiko de Esperanto: konsonantoj
Petr Fedosov
Esperanto
🎧▶️ Multimodal Language Processing – How gestures and other non-verbal cues facilitate comprehension
Xaver Funk
English
HindiRomanianGerman (not yet fluent)TurkishBasqueGerman (fluent)
20:00🎧▶️ The sèxe von de angelos – Gender incluziveco in langues
Cesco Reale
Multilingual
🎤 Introduzione al dialetto romano
Adriano Jannacos
Italian
VietnameseKlingonCatalanCzechYiddishAlbanian
21:00PersianIrishPolishBulgarianUkrainian
22:00EsperantoHungarianDanishJapaneseHebrew
23:00📼▶️ Comença a aprendre català!
Laura Homs Vila
Catalan
English (not yet fluent)LithuanianSlovakLatinKorean

Friday, May 21st, 2021

TimeRoom 1Room 2Language practice room 1Language practice room 2Language practice room 3Language practice room 4Language practice room 5Language practice room 6
00:00ItalianGuaraniSerbian/CroatianRussianFinnish
01:00Spanish (not yet fluent)SwedishSpanish (fluent)
02:00Indonesian/MalayEsperanto
03:00📼▶️ Introdução ao Guarani
Flávia Scaldelai
Portuguese
Chinese (not yet fluent)Indonesian/MalayChinese (fluent)
04:00Portuguese (not yet fluent)NepaliPortuguese (fluent)
05:00ThaiArabic
06:00RussianCatalan
07:00SwahiliKorean
08:00EsperantoJapaneseFrench (not yet fluent)UkrainianGreekFrench (fluent)
09:00📼▶️ Tips for regaining motivation in language learning
András Orisek
English
HindiRomanianPolishRussianChinese (not yet fluent)Chinese (fluent)
10:00VietnameseIndonesian/MalayIcelandicNorwegianDutch
11:00🎧▶️ Do you want to learn a language for ages OR do you want to SPEAK it now?
Lýdia Machová
English
PersianIrishBelarusianGerman (not yet fluent)CzechGerman (fluent)
12:00🎤 The dark side of learning languages
Eliza Illukiewicz
Spanish, English
MacedonianKlingonIndonesian/MalayItalianHebrew
13:00🎧▶️ Japanese and Chinese literacy in multilingual kids raised in Canada
Tetsu Yung
English
🎧▶️ El desprestigio lingüístico desde el punto de vista de un políglota
Violeta Caballero Caballero
Spanish
DanishSwedishBasqueSpanish (not yet fluent)CantoneseSpanish (fluent)
14:00🎧▶️ Language x Tech: Getting Started with Computational Linguistic
Etiene Dalcol
English
🎤 Serbian for beginners – crash course
Suzana Andjelkovic
Portuguese
YiddishKoreanTurkishUkrainianPortuguese (not yet fluent)Portuguese (fluent)
15:00🎧▶️ The power of translation: ’Shrek’ in Polish, Spanish and German dubbing
Karolina Puchała-Ladzińska
English
🎧▶️ Polonais express – une séance de découverte
Ewa Corser
French
GeorgianSerbian/CroatianSloveneSlovakTamilMongolian
16:00🎧▶️ The mystery of Polish cases
Zuzanna Yevtushyk
English
🎤⭐ Fancy a quiz – we will get uTalking! A journey through 45 languages in 45 minutes!
Emily Martyn, Charlotte Donnelly
English
HungarianLatvianCatalanFrench (not yet fluent)DutchFrench (fluent)
17:00🎧▶️ The Most Interesting Things About English Pronunciation
Ruben Adery
English
🎧▶️ Paraglot – alia reformita Esperanto
Rafał Darasz
Esperanto
WelshAfrikaansBulgarianArabicThaiTagalog
18:00🎧▶️ Why I only learn tongue twisters / Pourquoi je n’étudie que les virelangues / Varför jag studerar bara tungvrickare / mi sona taso ni: toki nasa
G. B.
Toki Pona
🎤 Self-mastery in language learning
Nicolò Violini
English
LithuanianSwahiliPolishEsperantoChinese (not yet fluent)Chinese (fluent)
19:00🎧▶️ Teenagers in the language learning community
Daniela Szep
English
🎧▶️ Salience and Suggestibility – A Virtuous Circle
Freddie Kift
French
CzechGreekCatalanRussianHebrewWu
20:00🎧▶️ Poetry evening
Cesco Reale
Multilingual
🎤 Irish language taster
Seán Ó Riain
English
GalicianSerbian/CroatianSlovakItalianSwedishEstonian
21:00📼▶️⭐ How I took 262 lessons hours in the last italki Language Challenge
Matthew J. Pereira
English
IrishSpanish (not yet fluent)BulgarianHungarianBretonSpanish (fluent)
22:00NorwegianRomanianUkrainianPortuguese (not yet fluent)English (not yet fluent)Portuguese (fluent)
23:00HindiFrench (not yet fluent)PolishArabicIdoFrench (fluent)

Saturday, May 22nd, 2021

TimeRoom 1Room 2Language practice room 1Language practice room 2Language practice room 3Language practice room 4Language practice room 5Language practice room 6
00:00German (not yet fluent)JapaneseDanishToki PonaSlovakGerman (fluent)
01:00VietnameseFinnish
02:00PersianLatin
03:00Spanish (not yet fluent)KlingonSpanish (fluent)
04:00CantoneseSwedish
05:00NepaliSerbian/Croatian
06:00GeorgianChinese (not yet fluent)Chinese (fluent)
07:00HungarianLatvianTagalog
08:00YiddishAfrikaansBulgarianEsperantoThai
09:00LithuanianSwahiliPolishArabicKorean
10:00🎧▶️ The How and Why of Learning Sanskrit
Olga Olina
English
🎤 The Elephant in the Room: Language Complexity, the Meaning of Sounds, and Why Polyglots Matter
Juliana Barembuem
English
EsperantoJapaneseFrench (not yet fluent)UkrainianGreekFrench (fluent)
11:00🎧▶️ Polish Your Underused Languages: an Interpreter’s Perspective
Dmytro Kushnir
English, Polish
🎧▶️ Об одном классе слов и их порядке
Petr Fedosov
Russian
HindiRomanianCzechRussianVietnameseOccitan
12:00🎧▶️ Speak early, speak often… or not?
Gareth Popkins
English
🎤 Introduction to te reo Māori
Marta Melnyk
English
Chinese (not yet fluent)IcelandicNorwegianDutchIrishChinese (fluent)
13:00🎧▶️⭐ How to use music to learn languages
David Mark Evans
English
🎧▶️ Your Name Is Invalid!
Miroslav Šedivý
German
PersianWelshBelarusianMaoriPolishAlbanian
14:00🎧▶️ Finnish in 45 Minutes
Kelvin Jackson
English
🎤 Moderate the Moderator – How to lead discussions, panels and whole conferences in more than one language
Aleksandar Medjedovic
English
MacedonianKlingonIndonesian/MalayItalianGerman (not yet fluent)German (fluent)
15:00🎧▶️ Using Tatoeba.org to learn a new language or help others to learn yours
Ricardo Vernaut Jr. (Ryck)
English
🎧▶️ Miejsce kobiety w języku polskim, czyli o seksizmie językowym
Zuzanna Yevtushyk
Polish
DanishFinnishBasqueSpanish (not yet fluent)CantoneseSpanish (fluent)
16:00🎧▶️ Globalization, Education, and Localization: How a Little Bit of Language Can Go a Long Way At Work
Stephanie Horn
English
🎤⭐ Introduction to Online Language Exchange Events
Brian Heavey
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Japanese, Mandarin
NepaliSerbian/CroatianTurkishUkrainianPortuguese (not yet fluent)Portuguese (fluent)
17:00🎧▶️ Brazilian Portuguese Crash Course
Ricardo Vernaut Jr. (Ryck)
English
🎤 Musical language quiz
Matthieu Desplantes
English
GeorgianKoreanSloveneSlovakSwedishNeapolitan
18:00🎧▶️ A novel approach – an easy approach to start thinking in a new language
Chris Conkling and Robin Conkling
English with a little Japanese, Spanish and Italian
🎤 Murder Mystery en français!
Farah Aden
French
HungarianLatvianBulgarianFrench (not yet fluent)DutchFrench (fluent)
19:00🎧▶️ Neologisms and loanwords in Icelandic
Siru Laine
English
🎧▶️ Diminutives in Spanish: what they are and how to use them
Sonia Maćkowiak
English, Spanish
YiddishAfrikaansEnglish (not yet fluent)EsperantoChinese (not yet fluent)Chinese (fluent)
20:00🎧▶️⭐ Ĉu ĉiuj lingvoj estas kreitaj egale? Diskriminacio kaj privilegio – Are all languages created equally? Discrimination and privilege – Toutes les langues sont-elles créées égales ? Discrimitation et privilège
Valentin Ceretto, Nicolas Viau, Michael Vrazitulis, Cyprien Guiya
English, French, German, Esperanto
🎧▶️ Como hablar alemán desde el primer día
Elisa Polese
Spanish, German
LithuanianSwahiliPolishArabicThaiHaitian Creole
21:00📼▶️ Secrets to perfecting your Mandarin pronunciation – missed in mainstream Chinese teaching
Benfang Wang
English
CzechGreekCatalanRussianHebrewTagalog
22:00GalicianSerbian/CroatianRussianItalianSwedish
23:00LatinDanishBulgarianHungarianBreton

Sunday, May 23rd, 2021

TimeRoom 1Room 2Language practice room 1Language practice room 2Language practice room 3Language practice room 4Language practice room 5Language practice room 6
00:00NorwegianRomanianSlovakSpanish (not yet fluent)EsperantoSpanish (fluent)
01:00HindiFrench (not yet fluent)French (fluent)
02:00ArabicJapanese
03:00VietnameseIndonesian/Malay
04:00📼▶️⭐ How I make money online teaching on italki and YouTube
Graziana Filomeno
Italian
PersianGerman (not yet fluent)German (fluent)
05:00Indonesian/MalayItalian
06:00CantoneseSwedish
07:00TamilTurkish
08:00📼▶️ Basque crash course
Siru Laine
English
GeorgianKoreanSloveneSlovakSwedish
09:00HungarianLatvianThaiFrench (not yet fluent)BasqueFrench (fluent)
10:00🎧▶️ Juggling and learning multiple languages while doing a full time job
Anish Man Shrestha
Japanese
🎤 أَلَذُّ الطَّعَام في سنغافورة، Sedap Singapura!
Mawaddah Ismail
English
YiddishAfrikaansBulgarianEsperantoEnglish (not yet fluent)Mongolian
11:00📼▶️ The many faces of code-switching: why do we mix languages?
Mari-Liis Korkus
English
🎤 Language crash course: Slovene / Po slovensko, prosim
Urška Obreza
Slovene, English
LithuanianSwahiliPolishArabicChinese (not yet fluent)Chinese (fluent)
12:00🎧▶️ Echoes of Ancestral Voices: Comparing languages of the Austronesian family from Madagascar to Polynesia
Brian Loo Soon Hua
English
🎧▶️ Music and languages: how the two of them are connected!
Rodrigo Garcia Abal
German, English
CatalanJapaneseSloveneUkrainianGreek
13:00🎧▶️ The 5 key strategies of Successful Bilingual Familes
Simon Brampton
Spanish
🎤 Is life too short to learn German?
Dr. Barbara Gräff
English, German
HindiRomanianBelarusianIcelandicCantonese
14:00🎧▶️ Diversitatea lingvistică a Republicii Moldova
Krzysztof Kolanowski
Romanian, Russian
🎤 Language Matters – Polyglot Edition
Nathalie Töpperwien Blom
German, English, Swedish, Spanish
VietnameseIndonesian/MalayRussianNorwegianDutch
15:00🎧▶️ Why learn Cornish?
Richard Simcott
English
🎤 Apprenons à parler français ! Crash Course in French
Heather Koziol
French, English
PersianIrishPolishGerman (not yet fluent)CzechGerman (fluent)
16:00🎧▶️ Languages to Promote Scientific Research
Timothy Douglas
Dutch
🎤 Try to study Chinese in 30 minutes
Jingtao Zhu
Spanish
MacedonianKlingonIndonesian/MalayItalianFrench (not yet fluent)French (fluent)
17:00🎧▶️ Do you do ta’arof? or how to be polite in Persian
Piotr Kozłowski
English
🎧▶️ 10 lessons learned from 10 years of language teaching
Chris Bain
English
DanishEstonianBasqueChinese (not yet fluent)HebrewChinese (fluent)
18:00🎧▶️ TikTok for language learners and polyglot video creators
Benny Lewis
English
🎤 Arabic Writing 101
Nichole Graham
English
NepaliSerbian/CroatianTurkishUkrainianPortuguese (not yet fluent)Portuguese (fluent)
19:00🎧▶️ Complexities of identity formation: Life journey of self-discovery
Sofiya Sarkisova
English
🎧▶️ Persian crash course
Ahmad Mamdoohi
English, Esperanto
GeorgianKoreanSloveneSlovakSwedishTagalog
20:00🎤 Talent Show
Elisa Polese, Marta Melnyk
Multilingual
HungarianLatvianAfrikaansSpanish (not yet fluent)DutchSpanish (fluent)
21:00YiddishEnglish (not yet fluent)BulgarianEsperantoThai
22:00LithuanianSwahiliPolishArabicChinese (not yet fluent)Chinese (fluent)
23:00CzechGreekCatalanRussianHebrew

Monday, May 24th, 2021

TimeLanguage practice room 1Language practice room 2Language practice room 3Language practice room 4Language practice room 5Language practice room 6
00:00GalicianSerbian/CroatianUkrainianItalianSwedish
01:00LatinGerman (not yet fluent)BulgarianHungarianBretonGerman (fluent)
02:00NorwegianRomanianSlovakFrench (not yet fluent)KoreanFrench (fluent)
03:00HindiSpanish (not yet fluent)PolishDanishIdoSpanish (fluent)
04:00ArabicJapanesePortuguese (not yet fluent)Toki PonaSlovakPortuguese (fluent)
05:00VietnameseIndonesian/MalayIcelandicNorwegianDutch
06:00PersianIrishBelarusianGerman (not yet fluent)CzechGerman (fluent)
07:00MacedonianKlingonIndonesian/MalayItalianHebrew
08:00DanishSwedishBasqueSpanish (not yet fluent)CantoneseSpanish (fluent)
09:00TamilSerbian/CroatianTurkishUkrainianPortuguese (not yet fluent)Portuguese (fluent)
10:00ArmenianCatalanSloveneSlovakRussian
11:00HungarianLatvianThaiFrench (not yet fluent)DutchFrench (fluent)
12:00YiddishAfrikaansBulgarianEsperantoEnglish (not yet fluent)
13:00LithuanianSwahiliPolishArabicChinese (not yet fluent)Chinese (fluent)