This website is about the Polyglot Gathering in 2022. For information about the current edition, follow this link.
Program
Small changes in the program are still possible. You can download the schedule in the iCalendar format.
For more details about the program, download the program book.
Are you planning to spend some time in Warsaw before or after the Polyglot Gathering? Download our PDF guide with a lot of practical tips!
Wednesday, June 1st, 2022
| Time | Esperanto room | Garden | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13:00 | Registration | ||
| 14:00 | |||
| 15:00 | |||
| 16:00 | Icebreaking with Elisa Elisa Polese Multilingual | ||
| 17:00 | |||
| 18:00 | Dinner | ||
| 19:00 | |||
| 20:00 | Opening ceremony | ||
| 20:30 | Intercultural communication: dos and don’ts around the world English | ||
| 21:00 | |||
| 21:30 | Musical language quiz Matthieu Desplantes Multilingual | ||
| 22:00 | |||
Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
| Time | E@I room | Amikumu room | Vortoj room | Esperanto room | Garden |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Labelling, and the hidden power of being a polyglot! Jonatan Haile English | Polish your Polish czyli wypoleruj swój polski Zuzanna Yevtushyk Polish | |||
| 10:00 | Wie das Gärtnern mein Deutsch (und meinen Keiz) verbessert hat Amanda Patterson German | How we built a dictionary with just a corpus and a few random speakers Marek Blahuš English | |||
| 11:00 | Aramaic – the mysterious language of the Jewish tradition Elad Ben David Hebrew (with slides in English) | Zacznij swoją przygodę z esperantem! Rafał Darasz Polish | Singing with Disney for language learning Marta Melnyk Multilingual | ||
| 12:00 | Harnessing Chinese morphemes in learning other Sinitic languages, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and sometimes even Tibetan vocabulary Yi-An Liao English | Stół z powyłamywanymi nogami Fischers Fritz Multilingual | |||
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:00 | |||||
| 15:00 | Tried and tested techniques to get the best translations Emily Martyn English | Back to school: Ukrainian in 3 hours Marta Melnyk English | Apprendre à jongler en français Suzanne Zaccour French | ||
| 16:00 | Xiao’erjing – Writing Chinese with Perso-Arabic Letters Iskandar Ding English | Networking session Multilingual | |||
| 17:00 | Interslavic – a common language for all Slavs and a gateway to learning Slavic languages? Medžuslovjansky – spolny jezyk dlja vsih Slovjanov i vrata k učenju slovjanskyh jezykov? Michael Patscheke English | ||||
| 18:00 | Dinner | ||||
| 19:00 | |||||
| 20:00 | Mini language quiz Emily Martyn and Charlotte Donnelly English | ||||
| 20:30 | International culinary festival | ||||
| 21:00 | |||||
| 21:30 | Multilingual concert: jOmO | ||||
| 22:00 | |||||
Friday, June 3rd, 2022
| Time | E@I room | Amikumu room | Vortoj room | Esperanto room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | How to Overcome the Intermediate Plateau in Language Learning – Principles & Strategies Luca Lampariello English | Back to school: Ukrainian in 3 hours Marta Melnyk English | ||
| 10:00 | Коротка історія української мови Zuzanna Yevtushyk Ukrainian | Listen Up! How to train your listening comprehension skills with the right techniques Jobst Upmeier English | El cuerpo dice lo que las palabras no pueden decir Jonatan Haile Spanish | |
| 11:00 | The beautiful patterns behind “irregular” verbs in German, English, Low Saxon & co. Johnny Enrique Lee Othon German | The language(s) of Europe: quelles langues por kiaj eŭropanoj? Valentin Ceretto Bergerat Esperanto, French, English | ||
| 12:00 | Hai voluto la bicicletta e allora pedala! Espressioni italiane (utili!) per divertirsi e divertire Elisa Polese Italian | |||
| 13:00 | Lunch | |||
| 14:00 | ||||
| 15:00 | Language Speaker Detector App: Amikumu Chuck Smith English | Warsiaska gwara dla lal i andrusów Albert Jerzy Wierzbicki Polish | Apprendre à jongler en français Suzanne Zaccour French | |
| 16:00 | La España plurilingüe: contexto y desafíos Ángel García Manso Spanish | IPA for Polyglots Mateusz Pietraszek English | ||
| 17:00 | Have you got the fluency mindset? Gareth Popkins English | Language Challenge | ||
| 18:00 | Dinner | Dinner | ||
| 18:30 | Dinner | |||
| 19:00 | ||||
| 20:00 | Mini language quiz Emily Martyn and Charlotte Donnelly English | |||
| 20:30 | Polyglot Expo | |||
| 21:00 | ||||
| 21:30 | Polyglot karaoke | Polyglot disco | ||
| 22:00 | ||||
| 23:00 | ||||
Saturday, June 4th, 2022
| Time | E@I room | Amikumu room | Vortoj room | Esperanto room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Training to Teach: The CELTA Student Experience Will Corbett English | Ludzie kodują język, czy język koduje ludzi? Zuzanna Yevtushyk Polish | ||
| 10:00 | Mutual (non)comprehension between Romance languages Maciej Jaskot Spanish (with slides in English) | Using visuals to learn languages Nathalie Töpperwien Blom English | ||
| 11:00 | გამარჯობა! A brief guide to a unique alphabet, the Georgian “Mkhedruli” Stefano Suigo English | Sesame, open up Blanka Rzewuska English | ||
| 12:00 | Big UPS! (Universal Phonetic Stylings) Ruben Adery English | Back to school: Ukrainian in 3 hours Marta Melnyk English | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch | |||
| 14:00 | ||||
| 15:00 | Journey through the history of language learning. Santiago Diossa Muñoz English | Learn to write quickly in Teeline shorthand Rafał Darasz English | ||
| 16:00 | Learn New Alphabets Through Games Judith Meyer English | Bailar bachata te puede cambiar la vida Nacho Caballero Spanish | ||
| 17:00 | Could Different Languages Strengthen Our Cognitive Health in Different Ways? Yan-Yi Lee English | Let's get crafty with Finnish! Alina Raatikainen English | ||
| 18:00 | Dinner | |||
| 19:00 | ||||
| 20:00 | Mini language quiz Emily Martyn and Charlotte Donnelly English | |||
| 20:30 | Multilingual concert: Kaŝi | |||
| 21:00 | ||||
Sunday, June 5th, 2022
| Time | E@I room | Amikumu room | Vortoj room | Esperanto room | Garden |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | La traduction littéraire : l’art d’adapter Thomas Sulmon French | Про Греку, Сашу и Клару. Воркшоп по русским скороговоркам! Ruslan Kokorin Russian | |||
| 10:00 | Listening to accents to improve your pronunciation Adrian Lin English | Meine Sprachenbiographie als Zeichnung – Kreative und visuelle Darstellungen von Sprachen Anna Becker German | Schwyzerdütsch – Singemer alli zamme Jordan Aikins and Roberto Lauber Swiss German, German, English | ||
| 11:00 | Learn Three Languages At Once: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean through 808 Shared Characters Wang Xing Hao English | Esperanto Crash Course Maciej Jaskot English | |||
| 12:00 | Holistic Language Learning Richard Simcott English | Baltic languages – (unknown) treasures of the Indo-European language family Anna Sedláčková French | |||
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:00 | |||||
| 15:00 | El lenguaje de la comunicación no violenta. Santiago Diossa Muñoz Spanish | Korean 101 Judy Um English | |||
| 16:00 | 3 ways languages can influence our personality and why Daniela Szep English | International Olympiad in Linguistics As a Way to Introduce Young People to Linguistic Research Stanislav Gurevich English | Improv (improvisation theater) in Italian and other languages Elisa Polese Italian | ||
| 17:00 | Consistency: The Key to Language Mastery Nacho Caballero English | ||||
| 18:00 | Dinner | ||||
| 19:00 | |||||
| 20:00 | A big language quiz Emily Martyn and Charlotte Donnelly English | ||||
| 21:00 | Closing ceremony | ||||
| 21:30 | Talent show | ||||
| 22:00 | |||||
| 22:30 | Polyglot karaoke | Polyglot disco | |||
| 23:00 | |||||
Language practice tables
In addition to the talks and workshops, there will be language practice tables during the whole event.
| Time | Wednesday, June 1 | Thursday, June 2 | Friday, June 3 | Saturday, June 4 | Sunday, June 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Spanish Chinese Slovak Finnish Hebrew |
Polish Dutch Arabic Hungarian Catalan |
French Serbian/Croatian Romanian Turkish Hebrew |
German Japanese Bulgarian Indonesian Macedonian |
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| 10:00 | French Serbian/Croatian Romanian Indonesian Danish |
Spanish Chinese Slovak Finnish Hebrew |
Italian Japanese Czech Hindi/Urdu Catalan |
Ukrainian Swedish Greek Hungarian Danish |
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| 11:00 | Polish Portuguese Arabic Korean Norwegian |
Ukrainian Japanese Romanian Turkish Macedonian |
Esperanto Chinese Bulgarian Persian Norwegian |
French Russian Czech Turkish Catalan |
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| 12:00 | German Russian Lithuanian Persian on demand |
Esperanto Swedish Bulgarian Hindi/Urdu on demand |
Spanish Swedish Slovak Indonesian on demand |
Polish Dutch Arabic Hindi/Urdu on demand |
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| 13:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:00 | |||||
| 15:00 | Ukrainian Dutch Greek Hungarian Catalan |
Italian Portuguese Czech Indonesian Norwegian |
German Russian Lithuanian Korean Danish |
Italian Chinese Slovak Korean Hebrew |
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| 16:00 | Language practice tables ad hoc | Esperanto Japanese Czech Turkish Macedonian |
German Serbian/Croatian Greek Korean Danish |
Polish Dutch Arabic Hungarian Macedonian |
Spanish Portuguese Lithuanian Persian Norwegian |
| 17:00 | Language practice tables ad hoc | Italian Swedish Bulgarian Hindi/Urdu Multilingual |
French Russian Lithuanian Persian Multilingual |
Ukrainian Portuguese Greek Finnish Multilingual |
Esperanto Serbian/Croatian Romanian Finnish Multilingual |