Polyglot Gathering 2022

This website is about the Polyglot Gathering in 2022. For information about the current edition, follow this link.

Program

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.

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Thursday, April 28th, 2022

TimeRoom 1Room 2Language practice room 1Language practice room 2Language practice room 3Language practice room 4
09:00KoreanEnglishPersianAlbanian
10:00PolishArabicEsperanto (fluent)Esperanto (not yet fluent)
11:00UkrainianTurkishFrench (fluent)French (not yet fluent)
12:00Indonesian/MalayHindiSpanish (fluent)Spanish (not yet fluent)
13:00SlovakItalianGerman (fluent)German (not yet fluent)
14:00JapaneseSerbian/CroatianRussian (not yet fluent)Russian (fluent)
15:00IrishPersianDutchTamil
16:00CzechFinnishDanishHungarian
17:00RomanianGreekAfrikaansNorwegian
18:00🎧 ▶️ Opening ceremonyArabicSloveneBulgarianBasque
19:00🎤 Back to school with Ukrainian 1/3
Marta Melnyk
English, Polish, German
🎧 ▶️ ⭐ How to use games in language exchange
John Jang
English
PolishSwahiliChinese (fluent)Chinese (not yet fluent)
20:00🎧 ▶️ Sanskrit Essentials
Olga Olina
English
🎤 Let’s practise Swedish! Låt oss öva svenska!
Olga Koeva
Swedish
UkrainianEnglishItalian
21:00Esperanto (fluent)Esperanto (not yet fluent)French (fluent)French (not yet fluent)
22:00German (fluent)German (not yet fluent)Spanish (fluent)Spanish (not yet fluent)
23:00TurkishWelshRussian (not yet fluent)Russian (fluent)

Friday, April 29th, 2022

TimeRoom 1Room 2Language practice room 1Language practice room 2Language practice room 3Language practice room 4
00:00KoreanSerbian/CroatianBelarusianNeapolitan
01:00Portuguese (fluent)Portuguese (not yet fluent)Icelandic
02:00HebrewIndonesian/Malay
03:00French (fluent)French (not yet fluent)Korean
04:00EnglishVietnamese
05:00Esperanto (fluent)Esperanto (not yet fluent)Thai
06:00JapaneseHindi
07:00Chinese (fluent)Chinese (not yet fluent)Czech
08:00Spanish (fluent)Spanish (not yet fluent)Armenian
09:00📼 ▶ ️ Self-study Chinese tips- How to turbocharge your Chinese level by watching the best TV series
Benfang Wang
ItalianRomanianGerman (fluent)German (not yet fluent)
10:00TurkishPersianFrench (fluent)French (not yet fluent)
11:00🎧 ▶️ There are more pronouns than my workbook says: How we can engage with neopronouns outside of the classroom
Martina Gerdts
English, German
🎤 ⭐ uTalk Quiz
Charlotte Donnelly
English
UkrainianKoreanArabicMongolian
12:00🎧 ▶️ 4 languages – 4 journeys within the soul
Anish Man Shrestha
Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Mandarin
🎤 SolReSol: The Project – Digitising the Language of Music and Colors Two Centuries Later
Phil Shary
English
PolishHindiRussian (not yet fluent)Russian (fluent)
13:00🎤 My Linguistic Journey to Scandinavia
Olga Koeva
English
LithuanianIndonesian/MalayPortuguese (fluent)Portuguese (not yet fluent)
14:00CzechItalianEsperanto (fluent)Esperanto (not yet fluent)
15:00🎤 Learning a language by using Facebook
Suzana Andjelkovic
English
🎧 ▶️ The Forgotten "Face" of Afrikaans: A Brief Introduction of Cape Malay Afrikaans
Alexander Themas
English (some parts in Afrikaans and Malay)
SlovakEnglishChinese (fluent)Chinese (not yet fluent)
16:00🎧 ▶️ How to be confident when you speak French (or another language) even when you are not bilingual
Yasmine Lesire
English
🎤 Presenta’t en català (Introduce yourself in Catalan)
Laura Homs Vila
Catalan, English
FinnishJapaneseSpanish (fluent)Spanish (not yet fluent)
17:00🎧 ▶️ Lingua Carporophili (Karpoforofila lingvo)
Petr Fedosov
Esperanto
🎧 ▶️ Why games can be ideal learning environments – an experimental approach
Mike Dietrich
English
CatalanSerbian/CroatianGerman (fluent)German (not yet fluent)
18:00🎤 Nauczmy się (trochę) polskiego! Polish Crash Course
Rafał Darasz
English
🎧 ▶️ Trapped in the Anglosphere: compassion for native-English speakers
Laura Jane Baxter
English
EstonianArabicDutchGeorgian
19:00🎤 Multilingual vegan meet-up
Suzanne Zaccour
Multilingual
🎤 Back to school with Ukrainian 2/3
Marta Melnyk
English, Polish, German
PolishIrishSwedishHungarian
20:00🎧 ▶️ Multilinguals: Myths and reality
Sofiya Sarkisova
English, Spanish
🎤 Quiz: Test your knowledge of German idioms and grammar traps
Vanessa Berger
English
UkrainianPersianGreekSwahili
21:00🎧 ▶️ Challenge Yourself For 100 Days
Erin Joel Moore
Multilingual
🎧 ▶️ Language through digital gaming
Yvonne Chi
English, Mandarin
ItalianNorwegianRussian (not yet fluent)Russian (fluent)
22:00TurkishLatinEsperanto (fluent)Esperanto (not yet fluent)
23:00TagalogBulgarianPortuguese (fluent)Portuguese (not yet fluent)

Saturday, April 30th, 2022

TimeRoom 1Room 2Language practice room 1Language practice room 2Language practice room 3Language practice room 4
00:00🎤 ⭐ Curso flash de Esperanto para hispanohablantes 1/3
Luis Obando
Spanish
EnglishDanishFrench (fluent)French (not yet fluent)
01:00German (fluent)German (not yet fluent)Romanian
02:00Chinese (fluent)Chinese (not yet fluent)Hindi
03:00📼 ▶ ️ O tronco tupi
Flávia Scaldelai
Portuguese
JapaneseVietnamese
04:00Spanish (fluent)Spanish (not yet fluent)Latvian
05:00KoreanCantonese
06:00Indonesian/MalayArabic
07:00NepaliWu
08:00📼 ▶ ️ Peek into Chinese Cyberspeak: Popular Internet Slangs
向思聪 Xiang Sicong
A combination of Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese and Chinese Mandarin, the slides are in Chinese Mandarin and English
PolishItalian
09:00UkrainianHindiFrench (fluent)French (not yet fluent)
10:00🎤 Intro to Te Reo Māori
Alec Redvers-Hill
English
CatalanTurkishRussian (not yet fluent)Russian (fluent)
11:00🎧 ▶️ Bunadas – a database of cognate words
Caoimhín Ó Donnaíle
English
🎧 ▶️ West Coast Sounds: An Introduction to the Languages of the Pacific Northwest
Brian Loo Soon Hua
English
MaoriPersianGerman (fluent)German (not yet fluent)
12:00LatvianJapaneseEsperanto (fluent)Esperanto (not yet fluent)
13:00🎤 L'art de la mémoire au service du polyglotte
Céline De Luca
French
🎧 ▶️ Language Diaries: How to Stay Organized and Help Researchers
Aleshkevich-Suslov Yan Vyacheslavovich
English
KoreanArabicChinese (fluent)Chinese (not yet fluent)
14:00🎧 ▶️ Icelandic crash course
Siru Laine
English
🎧 ▶️ Litauisch und Polnisch – distanzierte Nachbarsprachen?
Krzysztof Kolanowski
German
CzechSwedishDutchHebrew
15:00🎧 ▶️ El bilingüísmo artificial – Criar a tu hijo en tu segundo idioma
Simon Brampton Dodson
Spanish
🎤 LudIKON game: guess the meaning of icon-words!
KomunIKON
English, Italian, German, Russian
IcelandicLithuanianFrench (fluent)French (not yet fluent)
16:00BretonSlovakSpanish (fluent)Spanish (not yet fluent)
17:00🎧 ▶️ Advanced Ukrainian Learner's Toolkit
Dmytro Kushnir
English
🎤 Lingue e dialetti d'Italia: one site to rule them all, one site to find them, one site to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
Francesco Lafornara
Italian
CatalanTamilGerman (fluent)German (not yet fluent)
18:00🎧 ▶️ Butchering multiple languages on Twitter
Timothy Douglas
Multilingual
🎧 ▶️ Le Luxembourg : le paradis du multilinguisme en Europe ?
Valentin Ceretto
French
PolishIrishFinnishEnglish
19:00🎤 Back to school with Ukrainian 3/3
Marta Melnyk
English, Polish, German
🎧 ▶️ Translating Poetry from Other languages into English
Chris Conkling
English with a smattering of ancient Hebrew, ancient Greek, Japanese and Old Norse
OccitanHungarianRussian (not yet fluent)Russian (fluent)
20:00UkrainianTurkishPortuguese (fluent)Portuguese (not yet fluent)
21:00🎧 ▶️ Exploring 3 Fun Linguistic Features of Bolivian Andean Spanish
Monica Flores Rojas
English, Spanish
🎤 Creating a foundation for learning the language of a former enemy region or nation + Crisis communication in Russian
Tatjana Kiefer
German, English, Russian
ItalianArabicFrench (fluent)French (not yet fluent)
22:00🎤 Musical language quiz
Matthieu Desplantes
English
Esperanto (fluent)Esperanto (not yet fluent)Chinese (fluent)Chinese (not yet fluent)
23:00Toki PonaKlingonSpanish (fluent)Spanish (not yet fluent)

Sunday, May 1st, 2022

TimeRoom 1Room 2Language practice room 1Language practice room 2Language practice room 3Language practice room 4
00:00🎤 ⭐ Curso flash de Esperanto para hispanohablantes 2/3
Luis Obando
Spanish
German (fluent)German (not yet fluent)Russian (not yet fluent)Russian (fluent)
01:00YiddishGalician
02:00📼 ▶ ️ Als Amerikanerin 7 Jahre in Deutschland
Fay Wilks
German
Spanish (fluent)Spanish (not yet fluent)Estonian
03:00Indonesian/MalayKorean
04:00TagalogThai
05:00Portuguese (fluent)Portuguese (not yet fluent)Hungarian
06:00French (fluent)French (not yet fluent)Swahili
07:00JapaneseEnglish
08:00📼 ▶ ️ What Do Sign Languages Tell Us About Language?
Sara Maria Hasbun
English
Esperanto (fluent)Esperanto (not yet fluent)Slovene
09:00MaoriCantoneseGerman (fluent)German (not yet fluent)
10:00🎧 ▶️ Interlinguistica ed esperantologia oggi: l'esperienza di Amsterdam
Federico Gobbo
Italian
🎧 ▶️ Introduction au polonais
Matthieu Desplantes
French
CatalanItalianSerbian/CroatianPersian
11:00🎤 Habla español: Spanish crash course
Sonia Maćkowiak
English, Spanish
🎧 ▶️ Start Writing Now!
Miriam Zeilinger
English
IcelandicPolishArabicHindi
12:00UkrainianGeorgianChinese (fluent)Chinese (not yet fluent)
13:00🎤 L'occitan, qu'es aquò ?
Marion QUENUT
French
🎧 ▶️ Language Learning on Steroids: How Learning Multiple Languages at the Same Time Can Boost Speed of Acquisition
Stefani Kostadinova
English
LatvianTurkishDutchDanish
14:00🎧 ▶️ Ist Stenographie immer noch von Bedeutung?
Rafał Darasz
German
OccitanSlovakJapaneseSwedish
15:00🎧 ▶️ How long does it take to learn a language?
Richard Simcott
English
🎧 ▶️ Introducción a los derechos lingüísticos – Introduction to linguistic rights
Violeta Caballero Caballero
Spanish
🎤 Let’s speak some Czech!
Olga Koeva
Czech
ThaiFrench (fluent)French (not yet fluent)
16:00EnglishIndonesian/MalayPortuguese (fluent)Portuguese (not yet fluent)
17:00🎧 ▶️ From Hebrew to Israeli – the success of a language revival
Piotr Kozlowski
English
🎤 Writing stories with neopronouns in German and English
Martina Gerdts
English, German
CatalanKoreanRussian (not yet fluent)Russian (fluent)
18:00🎤 "Why so English?" – how to stimulate multiligualism in English-dominated environment
Wojtek Oreszczuk
Multilingual
🎧 ▶️ Canto-Chinese 2: Trilingual Boogaloo — Past, Present, and Future of Subtitles in Hong Kong
Israel Lai
English
LithuanianVietnameseEsperanto (fluent)Esperanto (not yet fluent)
19:00🎤 ¡Juguemos a Código Secreto!
Sonia Maćkowiak
Spanish
🎧 ▶️ The best way to learn Slavic languages
Patrick Lencastre Pessanha
English
MacedonianArabicGerman (fluent)German (not yet fluent)
20:00🎧 ▶️ 韓国語語彙力のコナミコマンド/일어 어휘력의 코나미 거맨드/The Konami Code to Japanese/Korean Vocabulary learning.
Élise Hendrick
Japanese
🎧 ▶️ It Takes a Village... (Benefits of Community-Based Language Learning)
Jonathan Huggins
Spanish
ArmenianBelarusianSpanish (fluent)Spanish (not yet fluent)
21:00🎤 Polyglots got talent
Multilingual
TurkishPersianFrench (fluent)French (not yet fluent)
22:00IrishSerbian/CroatianHebrewRomanian
23:00FinnishUkrainianDanishItalian

Monday, May 2nd, 2022

TimeRoom 1Language practice room 1Language practice room 2Language practice room 3Language practice room 4
00:00🎤 ⭐ Curso flash de Esperanto para hispanohablantes 3/3
Luis Obando
Spanish
Haitian CreoleHungarianYiddishPolish
01:00Esperanto (fluent)Esperanto (not yet fluent)Slovak
02:00Portuguese (fluent)Portuguese (not yet fluent)Indonesian/Malay
03:00Spanish (fluent)Spanish (not yet fluent)Vietnamese
04:00KoreanEnglish
05:00Chinese (fluent)Chinese (not yet fluent)Tagalog
06:00JapaneseHungarian
07:00CzechPersian
08:00French (fluent)French (not yet fluent)Cantonese
09:00German (fluent)German (not yet fluent)Thai
10:00Esperanto (fluent)Esperanto (not yet fluent)Norwegian
11:00PolishSerbian/Croatian
12:00DutchGreek
13:00ItalianArabic