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.
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
| Time | Room 1 | Language practice room 1 | Language practice room 2 | Language practice room 3 | Language practice room 4 | Language practice room 5 | Language practice room 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18:00 | Korean | Esperanto | Polish | Hebrew | Spanish (not yet fluent) | Spanish (fluent) | |
| 19:00 | Catalan | Greek | Danish | Tagalog | Portuguese (not yet fluent) | Portuguese (fluent) | |
| 20:00 | 🎧▶️ Opening ceremony | ||||||
| 21:00 | 🎤 Social activity: Intercultural communication Elisa Polese | Turkish | Cantonese | Indonesian/Malay | German (not yet fluent) | Japanese | German (fluent) |
| 22:00 | Vietnamese | Portuguese (not yet fluent) | Hindi | Russian | Czech | Portuguese (fluent) | |
| 23:00 | Swedish | Thai | Hungarian | Slovak | Chinese (not yet fluent) | Chinese (fluent) |
Thursday, May 20th, 2021
| 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 | Language practice room 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | Persian | Toki Pona | French (not yet fluent) | Italian | Dutch | French (fluent) | ||
| 01:00 | Punjabi | German (not yet fluent) | German (fluent) | |||||
| 02:00 | Arabic | Spanish (not yet fluent) | Spanish (fluent) | |||||
| 03:00 | Russian | Esperanto | ||||||
| 04:00 | Chinese (not yet fluent) | Italian | Chinese (fluent) | |||||
| 05:00 | Portuguese (not yet fluent) | Swahili | Portuguese (fluent) | |||||
| 06:00 | Ukrainian | Greek | ||||||
| 07:00 | Icelandic | Serbian/Croatian | Polish | Spanish (not yet fluent) | Vietnamese | Spanish (fluent) | ||
| 08:00 | Armenian | French (not yet fluent) | Dutch | Italian | Lithuanian | French (fluent) | ||
| 09:00 | German (not yet fluent) | Japanese | Scottish Gaelic | Catalan | Tibetan | German (fluent) | ||
| 10:00 | Czech | Esperanto | Ukrainian | Portuguese (not yet fluent) | Bulgarian | Portuguese (fluent) | ||
| 11:00 | English (not yet fluent) | Russian | Danish | Basque | Norwegian | |||
| 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 | Finnish | Slovene | Arabic | Chinese (not yet fluent) | Turkish | Chinese (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 | Korean | French (not yet fluent) | Russian | Arabic | Japanese | French (fluent) |
| 14:00 | 🎧▶️ Interkultura Novelo-Konkurso Nicolas Viau Esperanto | 🎤 Icon guessing – visual language game KomunIKON team Multilingual | Turkish | Indonesian/Malay | Esperanto | Slovak | Dutch | |
| 15:00 | 🎧▶️ Celtic Origins: Archaeologically Speaking Johnnie Gallacher English | 🎧▶️⭐ J’étais une enseignante traditionnelle avant la pandémie Marie French | Persian | English (not yet fluent) | Latin | Ukrainian | Portuguese (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) | Polish | Italian | Norwegian | Czech | German (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/Croatian | Romanian | Finnish | Spanish (not yet fluent) | Greek | Spanish (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 | Hebrew | English (not yet fluent) | Esperanto | Chinese (not yet fluent) | Icelandic | Chinese (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 | Hindi | Romanian | German (not yet fluent) | Turkish | Basque | German (fluent) |
| 20:00 | 🎧▶️ The sèxe von de angelos – Gender incluziveco in langues Cesco Reale Multilingual | 🎤 Introduzione al dialetto romano Adriano Jannacos Italian | Vietnamese | Klingon | Catalan | Czech | Yiddish | Albanian |
| 21:00 | Persian | Irish | Polish | Bulgarian | Ukrainian | |||
| 22:00 | Esperanto | Hungarian | Danish | Japanese | Hebrew | |||
| 23:00 | 📼▶️ Comença a aprendre català! Laura Homs Vila Catalan | English (not yet fluent) | Lithuanian | Slovak | Latin | Korean |
Friday, May 21st, 2021
| 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 | Language practice room 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | Italian | Guarani | Serbian/Croatian | Russian | Finnish | |||
| 01:00 | Spanish (not yet fluent) | Swedish | Spanish (fluent) | |||||
| 02:00 | Indonesian/Malay | Esperanto | ||||||
| 03:00 | 📼▶️ Introdução ao Guarani Flávia Scaldelai Portuguese | Chinese (not yet fluent) | Indonesian/Malay | Chinese (fluent) | ||||
| 04:00 | Portuguese (not yet fluent) | Nepali | Portuguese (fluent) | |||||
| 05:00 | Thai | Arabic | ||||||
| 06:00 | Russian | Catalan | ||||||
| 07:00 | Swahili | Korean | ||||||
| 08:00 | Esperanto | Japanese | French (not yet fluent) | Ukrainian | Greek | French (fluent) | ||
| 09:00 | 📼▶️ Tips for regaining motivation in language learning András Orisek English | Hindi | Romanian | Polish | Russian | Chinese (not yet fluent) | Chinese (fluent) | |
| 10:00 | Vietnamese | Indonesian/Malay | Icelandic | Norwegian | Dutch | |||
| 11:00 | 🎧▶️ Do you want to learn a language for ages OR do you want to SPEAK it now? Lýdia Machová English | Persian | Irish | Belarusian | German (not yet fluent) | Czech | German (fluent) | |
| 12:00 | 🎤 The dark side of learning languages Eliza Illukiewicz Spanish, English | Macedonian | Klingon | Indonesian/Malay | Italian | Hebrew | ||
| 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 | Danish | Swedish | Basque | Spanish (not yet fluent) | Cantonese | Spanish (fluent) |
| 14:00 | 🎧▶️ Language x Tech: Getting Started with Computational Linguistic Etiene Dalcol English | 🎤 Serbian for beginners – crash course Suzana Andjelkovic Portuguese | Yiddish | Korean | Turkish | Ukrainian | Portuguese (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 | Georgian | Serbian/Croatian | Slovene | Slovak | Tamil | Mongolian |
| 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 | Hungarian | Latvian | Catalan | French (not yet fluent) | Dutch | French (fluent) |
| 17:00 | 🎧▶️ The Most Interesting Things About English Pronunciation Ruben Adery English | 🎧▶️ Paraglot – alia reformita Esperanto Rafał Darasz Esperanto | Welsh | Afrikaans | Bulgarian | Arabic | Thai | Tagalog |
| 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 | Lithuanian | Swahili | Polish | Esperanto | Chinese (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 | Czech | Greek | Catalan | Russian | Hebrew | Wu |
| 20:00 | 🎧▶️ Poetry evening Cesco Reale Multilingual | 🎤 Irish language taster Seán Ó Riain English | Galician | Serbian/Croatian | Slovak | Italian | Swedish | Estonian |
| 21:00 | 📼▶️⭐ How I took 262 lessons hours in the last italki Language Challenge Matthew J. Pereira English | Irish | Spanish (not yet fluent) | Bulgarian | Hungarian | Breton | Spanish (fluent) | |
| 22:00 | Norwegian | Romanian | Ukrainian | Portuguese (not yet fluent) | English (not yet fluent) | Portuguese (fluent) | ||
| 23:00 | Hindi | French (not yet fluent) | Polish | Arabic | Ido | French (fluent) |
Saturday, May 22nd, 2021
| 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 | Language practice room 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | German (not yet fluent) | Japanese | Danish | Toki Pona | Slovak | German (fluent) | ||
| 01:00 | Vietnamese | Finnish | ||||||
| 02:00 | Persian | Latin | ||||||
| 03:00 | Spanish (not yet fluent) | Klingon | Spanish (fluent) | |||||
| 04:00 | Cantonese | Swedish | ||||||
| 05:00 | Nepali | Serbian/Croatian | ||||||
| 06:00 | Georgian | Chinese (not yet fluent) | Chinese (fluent) | |||||
| 07:00 | Hungarian | Latvian | Tagalog | |||||
| 08:00 | Yiddish | Afrikaans | Bulgarian | Esperanto | Thai | |||
| 09:00 | Lithuanian | Swahili | Polish | Arabic | Korean | |||
| 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 | Esperanto | Japanese | French (not yet fluent) | Ukrainian | Greek | French (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 | Hindi | Romanian | Czech | Russian | Vietnamese | Occitan |
| 12:00 | 🎧▶️ Speak early, speak often… or not? Gareth Popkins English | 🎤 Introduction to te reo Māori Marta Melnyk English | Chinese (not yet fluent) | Icelandic | Norwegian | Dutch | Irish | Chinese (fluent) |
| 13:00 | 🎧▶️⭐ How to use music to learn languages David Mark Evans English | 🎧▶️ Your Name Is Invalid! Miroslav Šedivý German | Persian | Welsh | Belarusian | Maori | Polish | Albanian |
| 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 | Macedonian | Klingon | Indonesian/Malay | Italian | German (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 | Danish | Finnish | Basque | Spanish (not yet fluent) | Cantonese | Spanish (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 | Nepali | Serbian/Croatian | Turkish | Ukrainian | Portuguese (not yet fluent) | Portuguese (fluent) |
| 17:00 | 🎧▶️ Brazilian Portuguese Crash Course Ricardo Vernaut Jr. (Ryck) English | 🎤 Musical language quiz Matthieu Desplantes English | Georgian | Korean | Slovene | Slovak | Swedish | Neapolitan |
| 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 | Hungarian | Latvian | Bulgarian | French (not yet fluent) | Dutch | French (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 | Yiddish | Afrikaans | English (not yet fluent) | Esperanto | Chinese (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 | Lithuanian | Swahili | Polish | Arabic | Thai | Haitian Creole |
| 21:00 | 📼▶️ Secrets to perfecting your Mandarin pronunciation – missed in mainstream Chinese teaching Benfang Wang English | Czech | Greek | Catalan | Russian | Hebrew | Tagalog | |
| 22:00 | Galician | Serbian/Croatian | Russian | Italian | Swedish | |||
| 23:00 | Latin | Danish | Bulgarian | Hungarian | Breton |
Sunday, May 23rd, 2021
| 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 | Language practice room 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | Norwegian | Romanian | Slovak | Spanish (not yet fluent) | Esperanto | Spanish (fluent) | ||
| 01:00 | Hindi | French (not yet fluent) | French (fluent) | |||||
| 02:00 | Arabic | Japanese | ||||||
| 03:00 | Vietnamese | Indonesian/Malay | ||||||
| 04:00 | 📼▶️⭐ How I make money online teaching on italki and YouTube Graziana Filomeno Italian | Persian | German (not yet fluent) | German (fluent) | ||||
| 05:00 | Indonesian/Malay | Italian | ||||||
| 06:00 | Cantonese | Swedish | ||||||
| 07:00 | Tamil | Turkish | ||||||
| 08:00 | 📼▶️ Basque crash course Siru Laine English | Georgian | Korean | Slovene | Slovak | Swedish | ||
| 09:00 | Hungarian | Latvian | Thai | French (not yet fluent) | Basque | French (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 | Yiddish | Afrikaans | Bulgarian | Esperanto | English (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 | Lithuanian | Swahili | Polish | Arabic | Chinese (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 | Catalan | Japanese | Slovene | Ukrainian | Greek | |
| 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 | Hindi | Romanian | Belarusian | Icelandic | Cantonese | |
| 14:00 | 🎧▶️ Diversitatea lingvistică a Republicii Moldova Krzysztof Kolanowski Romanian, Russian | 🎤 Language Matters – Polyglot Edition Nathalie Töpperwien Blom German, English, Swedish, Spanish | Vietnamese | Indonesian/Malay | Russian | Norwegian | Dutch | |
| 15:00 | 🎧▶️ Why learn Cornish? Richard Simcott English | 🎤 Apprenons à parler français ! Crash Course in French Heather Koziol French, English | Persian | Irish | Polish | German (not yet fluent) | Czech | German (fluent) |
| 16:00 | 🎧▶️ Languages to Promote Scientific Research Timothy Douglas Dutch | 🎤 Try to study Chinese in 30 minutes Jingtao Zhu Spanish | Macedonian | Klingon | Indonesian/Malay | Italian | French (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 | Danish | Estonian | Basque | Chinese (not yet fluent) | Hebrew | Chinese (fluent) |
| 18:00 | 🎧▶️ TikTok for language learners and polyglot video creators Benny Lewis English | 🎤 Arabic Writing 101 Nichole Graham English | Nepali | Serbian/Croatian | Turkish | Ukrainian | Portuguese (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 | Georgian | Korean | Slovene | Slovak | Swedish | Tagalog |
| 20:00 | 🎤 Talent Show Elisa Polese, Marta Melnyk Multilingual | Hungarian | Latvian | Afrikaans | Spanish (not yet fluent) | Dutch | Spanish (fluent) | |
| 21:00 | Yiddish | English (not yet fluent) | Bulgarian | Esperanto | Thai | |||
| 22:00 | Lithuanian | Swahili | Polish | Arabic | Chinese (not yet fluent) | Chinese (fluent) | ||
| 23:00 | Czech | Greek | Catalan | Russian | Hebrew |
Monday, May 24th, 2021
| Time | Language practice room 1 | Language practice room 2 | Language practice room 3 | Language practice room 4 | Language practice room 5 | Language practice room 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | Galician | Serbian/Croatian | Ukrainian | Italian | Swedish | |
| 01:00 | Latin | German (not yet fluent) | Bulgarian | Hungarian | Breton | German (fluent) |
| 02:00 | Norwegian | Romanian | Slovak | French (not yet fluent) | Korean | French (fluent) |
| 03:00 | Hindi | Spanish (not yet fluent) | Polish | Danish | Ido | Spanish (fluent) |
| 04:00 | Arabic | Japanese | Portuguese (not yet fluent) | Toki Pona | Slovak | Portuguese (fluent) |
| 05:00 | Vietnamese | Indonesian/Malay | Icelandic | Norwegian | Dutch | |
| 06:00 | Persian | Irish | Belarusian | German (not yet fluent) | Czech | German (fluent) |
| 07:00 | Macedonian | Klingon | Indonesian/Malay | Italian | Hebrew | |
| 08:00 | Danish | Swedish | Basque | Spanish (not yet fluent) | Cantonese | Spanish (fluent) |
| 09:00 | Tamil | Serbian/Croatian | Turkish | Ukrainian | Portuguese (not yet fluent) | Portuguese (fluent) |
| 10:00 | Armenian | Catalan | Slovene | Slovak | Russian | |
| 11:00 | Hungarian | Latvian | Thai | French (not yet fluent) | Dutch | French (fluent) |
| 12:00 | Yiddish | Afrikaans | Bulgarian | Esperanto | English (not yet fluent) | |
| 13:00 | Lithuanian | Swahili | Polish | Arabic | Chinese (not yet fluent) | Chinese (fluent) |