This website is about the Polyglot Gathering in 2024. For information about the current edition, follow this link.
Program
In addition to the program below, there will a chatroom available during the entire time. The talks will last 45 minutes.
Small changes in the schedule are possible.
Legend:
- 🎤 – live workshop or talk with active participation of the audience
- 🎧 – watching 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
For some of the more popular languages, there will be two language practice rooms at the same time for two different levels: fluent and not yet fluent.
Wednesday, February 28th, 2024
| Time | Room 1 | Language practice room 1 | Language practice room 2 | Language practice room 3 | Language practice room 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16:00 | Tamil | Arabic | Dutch | Hungarian | |
| 17:00 | Slovak | Kazakh | Lithuanian | Italian (fluent/not yet fluent) | |
| 18:00 | German (fluent/not yet fluent) | Spanish (fluent/not yet fluent) | Bengali | Finnish | |
| 19:00 | Swedish | Hebrew | Chinese (fluent/not yet fluent) | Korean | |
| 20:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Opening ceremony English | ||||
| 21:00 | ⭐ 🎤 ▶️ uTalk Language Quiz uTalk Team English | Polish | Arabic | English (fluent/not yet fluent) | Bulgarian |
| 22:00 | Irish | Ukrainian | Esperanto (fluent/not yet fluent) | Catalan | |
| 23:00 | Portuguese (fluent/not yet fluent) | Greek | French (fluent/not yet fluent) | Norwegian |
Thursday, February 29th, 2024
| Time | Room 1 | Language practice room 1 | Language practice room 2 | Language practice room 3 | Language practice room 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | Latin | Italian (fluent/not yet fluent) | Russian (fluent/not yet fluent) | Romanian | |
| 01:00 | Czech | Hungarian | German (fluent/not yet fluent) | Spanish (fluent/not yet fluent) | |
| 02:00 | Hebrew | Dutch | |||
| 03:00 | Japanese | Danish | |||
| 04:00 | Chinese (fluent/not yet fluent) | Turkish | |||
| 05:00 | Hindi | Vietnamese | |||
| 06:00 | Thai | Swedish | |||
| 07:00 | Indonesian/Malay | Italian (fluent/not yet fluent) | |||
| 08:00 | Lithuanian | Chinese (fluent/not yet fluent) | |||
| 09:00 | Korean | English (fluent/not yet fluent) | Persian | Albanian | |
| 10:00 | Polish | Arabic | Esperanto (fluent/not yet fluent) | Dutch | |
| 11:00 | Ukrainian | Turkish | French (fluent/not yet fluent) | Cantonese | |
| 12:00 | Indonesian/Malay | Hindi | Spanish (fluent/not yet fluent) | Belarusian | |
| 13:00 | Slovak | Italian (fluent/not yet fluent) | Russian (fluent/not yet fluent) | Wu | |
| 14:00 | 🎤 ▶️ Se construire une routine quotidienne en langues (Building a daily routine for language learning) Paul Bradley French | Japanese | Serbian/Croatian | German (fluent/not yet fluent) | Bengali |
| 15:00 | 🎧 ▶️ The Norwegian language war: from no to two official languages Werner Skalla English | Irish | Persian | Dutch | Tamil |
| 16:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Why Hindi has such a regular grammar while being so hard to actually speak? Marged Flavia Trumper English | Czech | Finnish | Danish | Hungarian |
| 17:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Szanowna Pani, Szanowny Panie – як звертатися до інших польською мовою Zuzanna Yevtushyk Ukrainian | Romanian | Greek | Afrikaans | Norwegian |
| 18:00 | 🎤 ▶️ Interactive quiz about culinary, linguistic, and cultural European wonders Elisa Polese English | Arabic | Slovene | Bulgarian | Basque |
| 19:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Моја нова авантура са српском језиком (my new adventure with the Serbian language) Timothy Douglas Serbian (with slides in English) | Polish | Swahili | Chinese (fluent/not yet fluent) | Latvian |
| 20:00 | 🎤 ▶️ Engaging with language diversity via the Wikipedia ecosystem Daniel Mietchen English | Neapolitan | Ukrainian | English (fluent/not yet fluent) | Portuguese (fluent/not yet fluent) |
| 21:00 | 📼 ▶️ Pamper your Brain to Learn Languages Jana Grezova English | 🎤 Danish Olga Koeva Danish | Esperanto (fluent/not yet fluent) | French (fluent/not yet fluent) | Italian (fluent/not yet fluent) |
| 22:00 | German (fluent/not yet fluent) | Spanish (fluent/not yet fluent) | Belarusian | ||
| 23:00 | Turkish | Welsh | Russian (fluent/not yet fluent) | Kazakh |
Friday, March 1st, 2024
| Time | Room 1 | Room 2 | Language practice room 1 | Language practice room 2 | Language practice room 3 | Language practice room 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | Korean | Serbian/Croatian | Vietnamese | Norwegian | ||
| 01:00 | Portuguese (fluent/not yet fluent) | Icelandic | ||||
| 02:00 | Hebrew | Indonesian/Malay | ||||
| 03:00 | French (fluent/not yet fluent) | Korean | ||||
| 04:00 | English (fluent/not yet fluent) | Vietnamese | ||||
| 05:00 | Esperanto (fluent/not yet fluent) | Thai | ||||
| 06:00 | Japanese | Hindi | ||||
| 07:00 | Chinese (fluent/not yet fluent) | Czech | ||||
| 08:00 | Spanish (fluent/not yet fluent) | Armenian | ||||
| 09:00 | Italian (fluent/not yet fluent) | Romanian | German (fluent/not yet fluent) | Esperanto (fluent/not yet fluent) | ||
| 10:00 | Turkish | Persian | French (fluent/not yet fluent) | Slovene | ||
| 11:00 | 📼 ▶️ Serbian Cyrilic alphabet 101 Suzana Anđelković English | Ukrainian | Korean | Arabic | Mongolian | |
| 12:00 | 🎤 ▶️ Malayalathilekku Swagatham (Welcome to Malayalam!) Eliza Keyton English | Polish | Hindi | Russian (fluent/not yet fluent) | Yiddish | |
| 13:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Perfezionando le tue lingue attraverso il volontariato! Giovanna Martinelli Botan Italian | Lithuanian | Indonesian/Malay | Portuguese (fluent/not yet fluent) | Malayalam | |
| 14:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Slavic traces in Romanian Anastasia Martynenko English | Czech | Italian (fluent/not yet fluent) | Esperanto (fluent/not yet fluent) | French (fluent/not yet fluent) | |
| 15:00 | 🎤 ▶️ Belarusian crash course Volha Yermalayeva Franco English | Slovak | English (fluent/not yet fluent) | Chinese (fluent/not yet fluent) | Macedonian | |
| 16:00 | 🎤 ▶️ Lyrics for peace and freedom: a musical journey through social movements Philippe Rendulić English | Finnish | Japanese | Spanish (fluent/not yet fluent) | Belarusian | |
| 17:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Sekrety efektywnej nauki dwóch pokrewnych języków jednocześnie Patrick Lencastre Polish | Catalan | Serbian/Croatian | German (fluent/not yet fluent) | Bengali | |
| 18:00 | 🎤 ▶️ Panel discussion: Unlocking the Language Learning Mindset: Insights and Strategies with Elisa Polese, Richard Simcott and Anna Bakova Nicolò Violini English | Estonian | Arabic | Albanian | Georgian | |
| 19:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Booste ton français avec des films Marion Trotté French with slides in Portuguese | Polish | Kazakh | Latvian | Hungarian | |
| 20:00 | 🎧 ▶️ へえー？ 日本語ができるようになってしまった？？(Huh? I accidentally learned Japanese?) Sofía Dorta Japanese and English | 🎤 ▶️ Unlearning English to Master German Grammar with Songs Maggie Jabczynski English and German | Ukrainian | Persian | Greek | Swahili |
| 21:00 | ⭐ 🎤 ▶️ uTalk Language Quiz uTalk Team English | 🎤 Swedish Olga Koeva Swedish | Italian (fluent/not yet fluent) | Norwegian | Russian (fluent/not yet fluent) | |
| 22:00 | Turkish | Latin | Esperanto (fluent/not yet fluent) | |||
| 23:00 | Tagalog | Bulgarian | Portuguese (fluent/not yet fluent) | Dutch |
Saturday, March 2nd, 2024
| Time | Room 1 | Room 2 | Language practice room 1 | Language practice room 2 | Language practice room 3 | Language practice room 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | English (fluent/not yet fluent) | Danish | French (fluent/not yet fluent) | Czech | ||
| 01:00 | German (fluent/not yet fluent) | Romanian | ||||
| 02:00 | Chinese (fluent/not yet fluent) | Hindi | ||||
| 03:00 | Spanish (fluent/not yet fluent) | Swedish | ||||
| 04:00 | Japanese | Vietnamese | ||||
| 05:00 | Korean | Cantonese | ||||
| 06:00 | Indonesian/Malay | Arabic | ||||
| 07:00 | Nepali | Wu | ||||
| 08:00 | Polish | Italian (fluent/not yet fluent) | ||||
| 09:00 | 📼 ▶️ Com utilitzar el mètode natural per aprendre llengües de la mateixa família Laura Couch Polyglot Catalan | Ukrainian | Hindi | French (fluent/not yet fluent) | Estonian | |
| 10:00 | 🎧 ▶️ the Evolution and History of the Turkic Languages Batuhan Azeloğlu English | 🎧 ▶️ Lingua frança(ise) – quel avenir pour les langues régionales de France? Luke Jackson French | Catalan | Turkish | Russian (fluent/not yet fluent) | Welsh |
| 11:00 | ⭐ 🎤 ▶️ Why must language learning be difficult? Mateusz Wiącek English | Maori | Persian | German (fluent/not yet fluent) | Belarusian | |
| 12:00 | Latvian | Japanese | Esperanto (fluent/not yet fluent) | Bengali | ||
| 13:00 | 🎧 ▶️ What Do Polyglots Want in the AI Era? Global Research into the Needs and Desires of Language Learners Victor Hart English | 🎤 ▶️ Discover Ukrainian Through Tales Marta Melnyk English and Ukrainian | Korean | Arabic | Chinese (fluent/not yet fluent) | Malayalam |
| 14:00 | 🎧 ▶️ A History of The Cornish Language Richard Simcott English | 🎤 ▶️ Crash course Norwegian Werner Skalla English | Czech | Swedish | Dutch | Hebrew |
| 15:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Pioneers of language learning commercialization: M. Madrigal, P. Pimsleur, M. Thomas and their methods Radosław Grodzki Spanish with slides in English | 🎧 ▶️ Letting Curiosity Guide Your Languages Elle Charisse, Emily Richardson, Heidi Lovejoy English | Hungarian | Lithuanian | French (fluent/not yet fluent) | Basque |
| 16:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Imparare lingue leggendo testi autentici (Language learning by reading authentic texts) Tímea Judit Varga Italian | 🎤 ▶️ Slavic Without Cases: Macedonian language crash course Andrijana Smiljkovska English | Breton | Slovak | Spanish (fluent/not yet fluent) | Afrikaans |
| 17:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Learning languages through Work Exchanges Constanze Baur English | 🎤 ▶️ Introducción al Esperanto en 16 pasos Maciej Jaskot Spanish | Catalan | Tamil | German (fluent/not yet fluent) | Georgian |
| 18:00 | Polish | Irish | Finnish | Esperanto (fluent/not yet fluent) | ||
| 19:00 | 🎧 ▶️ El Arte de Criar Niños Multilingües: La Sincronía de la Pareja Patrick y Bruna Lencastre Spanish | 🎤 ▶️ Sketch & Connect: a drawing game experience Elisa Polese English | Occitan | Ukrainian | Russian (fluent/not yet fluent) | Macedonian |
| 20:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Leveraging the Science of Motivation to Learn Languages Nadu Barbashova English | 🎤 ▶️ Handwriting in a New Language: Writing as output for language acquisition Erin Joel Moore English with demonstrations in Japanese, Arabic, Korean | Greek | Turkish | Portuguese (fluent/not yet fluent) | Bulgarian |
| 21:00 | 🎤 ▶️ Quechua: Una lengua incaica y su aprendizaje en 2024 Anna Reyeros Petsch Spanish | Latin | Italian (fluent/not yet fluent) | Arabic | French (fluent/not yet fluent) | |
| 22:00 | English (fluent/not yet fluent) | Esperanto (fluent/not yet fluent) | Chinese (fluent/not yet fluent) | Hebrew | ||
| 23:00 | Toki Pona | Klingon | Spanish (fluent/not yet fluent) | Armenian |
Sunday, March 3rd, 2024
| Time | Room 1 | Room 2 | Language practice room 1 | Language practice room 2 | Language practice room 3 | Language practice room 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | German (fluent/not yet fluent) | Russian (fluent/not yet fluent) | Mongolian | Czech | ||
| 01:00 | Yiddish | Galician | ||||
| 02:00 | Spanish (fluent/not yet fluent) | Estonian | ||||
| 03:00 | Indonesian/Malay | Korean | ||||
| 04:00 | Tagalog | Thai | ||||
| 05:00 | Portuguese (fluent/not yet fluent) | Hungarian | ||||
| 06:00 | French (fluent/not yet fluent) | Swahili | ||||
| 07:00 | Japanese | English (fluent/not yet fluent) | ||||
| 08:00 | Esperanto (fluent/not yet fluent) | Slovene | ||||
| 09:00 | Maori | Cantonese | German (fluent/not yet fluent) | Afrikaans | ||
| 10:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Translanguaging within Indian Academic Zones: Breaking Linguistic Barriers Dr Devina Krishna English | Catalan | Italian (fluent/not yet fluent) | Serbian/Croatian | Persian | |
| 11:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Introducción al modo subjuntivo para hablantes de lenguas eslavas Maciej Jaskot Spanish | Icelandic | Polish | Arabic | Hindi | |
| 12:00 | Ukrainian | Georgian | Chinese (fluent/not yet fluent) | Tamil | ||
| 13:00 | 🎤 ▶️ Unlocking “to be” in Spanish Sonia Maćkowiak zoom | 🎤 ▶️ Haben Tiere eine Sprache? Was uns die Tierkommunikation über Sprache beibringen kann Yasmin Meyer German | Latvian | Turkish | Dutch | Danish |
| 14:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Children's multiliteracy Lisa Kalugina English | 🎤 ▶️ Polish crash course Zuzanna Yevtushyk English | Occitan | Slovak | Japanese | Swedish |
| 15:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Portuñol: el arte de separar español y portugués Ivelina Ivanova Dobreva Spanish | 🎤 ▶️ An Introduction to Cornish Richard Simcott English | Polish | Thai | French (fluent/not yet fluent) | Bengali |
| 16:00 | 🎤 ▶️ Introduce yourself in Arabic (MSA) Thouria Benferhat English | English (fluent/not yet fluent) | Indonesian/Malay | Russian (fluent/not yet fluent) | Norwegian | |
| 17:00 | Catalan | Arabic | Kazakh | Welsh | ||
| 18:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Entre Lenguas y Letras: El Multilingüismo que Moldeó el Boom Latinoamericano César Manuel Martínez Soto Spanish | 🎤 ▶️ Alternative Writing Systems for English and ESL Students. Enoch Daniel Nevins Stokes English | Lithuanian | Vietnamese | Esperanto (fluent/not yet fluent) | Bulgarian |
| 19:00 | 🎤 ▶️ Interactive workshop: Engage, Empower, Excel: Nurturing a Growth Mindset in Language Learning Elisa Polese English | Macedonian | Korean | German (fluent/not yet fluent) | Greek | |
| 20:00 | 🎤 Talent show | Armenian | Hungarian | Spanish (fluent/not yet fluent) | Russian (fluent/not yet fluent) | |
| 21:00 | 📼 ▶️ VR Language Learning Chuck Smith English | Turkish | Persian | French (fluent/not yet fluent) | Basque | |
| 22:00 | Irish | Serbian/Croatian | Hebrew | Romanian | ||
| 23:00 | Finnish | Ukrainian | Danish | Italian (fluent/not yet fluent) |
Monday, March 4th, 2024
| Time | Language practice room 1 | Language practice room 2 | Language practice room 3 | Language practice room 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | Haitian Creole | Belarusian | Yiddish | Polish |
| 01:00 | Esperanto (fluent/not yet fluent) | Slovak | ||
| 02:00 | Portuguese (fluent/not yet fluent) | Indonesian/Malay | ||
| 03:00 | Spanish (fluent/not yet fluent) | Vietnamese | ||
| 04:00 | Korean | English (fluent/not yet fluent) | ||
| 05:00 | Chinese (fluent/not yet fluent) | Tagalog | ||
| 06:00 | Japanese | Hungarian | ||
| 07:00 | Czech | Persian | ||
| 08:00 | French (fluent/not yet fluent) | Cantonese | ||
| 09:00 | German (fluent/not yet fluent) | Thai | ||
| 10:00 | Esperanto (fluent/not yet fluent) | Norwegian | ||
| 11:00 | Polish | Serbian/Croatian | ||
| 12:00 | Dutch | Greek | ||
| 13:00 | Italian (fluent/not yet fluent) | Arabic |