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
| Time | Room 1 | Room 2 | Language practice room 1 | Language practice room 2 | Language practice room 3 | Language practice room 4 | Language practice room 5 |
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| 15:00 | Language crash course: Polish Szabolcs Szilva | Language crash course: Esperanto Tim Morley | Turkish | English | Russian | Arabic | Dutch |
| 16:00 | Language crash course: Italian Elisa Polese | Language crash course: Klingon André Müller | Finnish | Serbo-Croatian | Esperanto | Ukrainian | Hebrew |
| 17:00 | Opening session | ||||||
| 18:00 | 9 practical lessons from learning 9 languages Lýdia Machová English | Language Learning Around the World Tobias Dickmeis English | Lithuanian | Hindi | Polish | Swedish | Catalan |
| 19:00 | Decoding 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 | Hungarian | Japanese | German | Greek | Serbo-Croatian |
| 20:00 | Panel discussion: raising multilingual children | Language crash course: Na’vi André Müller | Romanian | Latin | Slovak | Danish | Norwegian |
| 21:00 | Epic polyglot quiz show | French | Spanish | Chinese | Finnish | English | |
| 22:00 | Comedy quiz: IKEA product or swear word? Tim Morley | Persian | Italian | Bulgarian | Portuguese | Arabic | |
| 23:00 | Galician | Czech | Latvian | Hindi | German |
Saturday, May 30th, 2020
| Time | Room 1 | Room 2 | Language practice room 1 | Language practice room 2 | Language practice room 3 | Language practice room 4 | Language practice room 5 |
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| 00:00 | Korean | Indonesian | French | Japanese | Spanish | ||
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| 08:00 | Korean | Esperanto | Polish | Spanish | Hebrew | ||
| 09:00 | Malay | Cantonese | Indonesian | German | Chinese | ||
| 10:00 | Esperanto and the United Nations: Challenges on Language and Cultures of the World Rakoen Maertens English | Is Lithuanian the Oldest Language? Olga Olina English | Vietnamese | Portuguese | Hindi | Russian | Czech |
| 11:00 | Do 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 | Swedish | Thai | Hungarian | Slovak | Japanese |
| 12:00 | Four language skills, twelve learning tips Gareth Popkins English | Public Speaking for language learning Marta Melnyk Polish | Persian | Toki Pona | French | Italian | Dutch |
| 13:00 | 10 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 | Punjabi | Afrikaans | Polish | German | Greek |
| 14:00 | Break | Break | Catalan | Urdu | Finnish | Spanish | Arabic |
| 15:00 | Start speaking Polish now! Ewa Hogarth-Jones English | Me in Belarusian – basics of the endangered language Albert Wierzbicki Russian, English | Danish | Turkish | Esperanto | Russian | Hebrew |
| 16:00 | Unlocking 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 Sorbian | Norwegian | Latin | Chinese | Portuguese |
| 17:00 | Using 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 | Yiddish | Belarusian | Slovak | Italian | Swahili |
| 18:00 | The importance of learning and teaching idiomatic language Chris Bain English | Mexico – the paradise for polyglots and language lovers Anja Spilker Spanish | Hungarian | Irish | Ukrainian | Arabic | Greek |
| 19:00 | Do 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 | Icelandic | Serbo-Croatian | Polish | Czech | Swedish |
| 20:00 | Panel discussion: multilingual learning | Language crash course: Irish Benny Lewis | Armenian | French | German | Italian | Lithuanian |
| 21:00 | Multilingual concert JoMo | Epic polyglot quiz show | Dutch | Japanese | Scottish Gaelic | Portuguese | Tibetan |
| 22:00 | Spanish | Esperanto | Ukrainian | Catalan | Bulgarian | ||
| 23:00 | English | Russian | Danish | Basque | Norwegian |
Sunday, May 31st, 2020
| Time | Room 1 | Room 2 | Language practice room 1 | Language practice room 2 | Language practice room 3 | Language practice room 4 | Language practice room 5 |
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| 00:00 | Finnish | Slovene | Arabic | Chinese | Turkish | ||
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| 08:00 | Esperanto | Japanese | French | Ukrainian | Greek | ||
| 09:00 | Hindi | Romanian | Polish | Russian | Chinese | ||
| 10:00 | Circassian: The endangered language of the Northern Caucasus Umut Uğrak English | Hakka Chinese, by a Latin American heritage speaker Johnny Enrique Lee Othon German | Vietnamese | Malay | Icelandic | Norwegian | Dutch |
| 11:00 | Introduction to Basque Siru Laine English | Kann man eine Fremdsprache kostenlos lernen? Maria Spantidi German | Persian | Irish | Belarusian | German | Czech |
| 12:00 | Big 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 | Macedonian | Klingon | Indonesian | Italian | Hebrew |
| 13:00 | An 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 | Danish | Swedish | Basque | Spanish | Cantonese |
| 14:00 | Break | Break | Nepali | Serbo-Croatian | Turkish | Ukrainian | Portuguese |
| 15:00 | How to develop speaking skills without talking? András Orisek English | Use linguistics for your personal language learning Patrick Geneit German, English | Georgian | Korean | Slovene | Slovak | Swedish |
| 16:00 | Lessons from Neuroscience for Language Learners Xaver Funk English | Why Sign Language was and will always be an International Language Heiko Burak German | Hungarian | Latvian | English | French | Dutch |
| 17:00 | Unique ways of expression: The favorable world of untranslatable words Andriana Mourti English | Speaking multiple languages from day one Ana Jimena Aguilar Castro French | Yiddish | Afrikaans | Bulgarian | Esperanto | Thai |
| 18:00 | When can I say I speak a language? Richard Simcott English | Learn Italian the smart way! Elisa Polese Italian, English | Lithuanian | Swahili | Polish | Arabic | Chinese |
| 19:00 | Closing | Czech | Greek | Catalan | Russian | Hebrew | |
| 20:00 | Discussion 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 | Galician | Serbo-Croatian | Ukrainian | Italian | Swedish |
| 21:00 | Polyglots got talent | Latin | Danish | Bulgarian | Hungarian | Breton | |
| 22:00 | Norwegian | Romanian | Slovak | Spanish | Catalan | ||
| 23:00 | Hindi | French | Polish | German | Ido |
Monday, June 1st, 2020
| Time | Room 1 | Room 2 | Language practice room 1 | Language practice room 2 | Language practice room 3 | Language practice room 4 | Language practice room 5 |
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| 10:00 | Korean | French | Russian | Arabic | Japanese | ||
| 11:00 | Interview 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 | Turkish | Indonesian | Esperanto | Slovak | Dutch | |
| 12:00 | Lightning talks | Persian | English | Latin | Ukrainian | Hebrew | |
| 13:00 | Children teach children Lisa Kalugina English | Reformita Esperanto Petr Fedosov Esperanto | Finnish | Polish | Italian | Chinese | Czech |
| 14:00 | A.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-Croatian | Romanian | German | Spanish | Greek |