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.
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
Thursday, April 28th, 2022
| Time | Room 1 | Room 2 | Language practice room 1 | Language practice room 2 | Language practice room 3 | Language practice room 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Korean | English | Persian | Albanian | ||
| 10:00 | Polish | Arabic | Esperanto (fluent) | Esperanto (not yet fluent) | ||
| 11:00 | Ukrainian | Turkish | French (fluent) | French (not yet fluent) | ||
| 12:00 | Indonesian/Malay | Hindi | Spanish (fluent) | Spanish (not yet fluent) | ||
| 13:00 | Slovak | Italian | German (fluent) | German (not yet fluent) | ||
| 14:00 | Japanese | Serbian/Croatian | Russian (not yet fluent) | Russian (fluent) | ||
| 15:00 | Irish | Persian | Dutch | Tamil | ||
| 16:00 | Czech | Finnish | Danish | Hungarian | ||
| 17:00 | Romanian | Greek | Afrikaans | Norwegian | ||
| 18:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Opening ceremony | Arabic | Slovene | Bulgarian | Basque | |
| 19:00 | 🎤 Back to school with Ukrainian 1/3 Marta Melnyk English, Polish, German | 🎧 ▶️ ⭐ How to use games in language exchange John Jang English | Polish | Swahili | Chinese (fluent) | Chinese (not yet fluent) |
| 20:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Sanskrit Essentials Olga Olina English | 🎤 Let’s practise Swedish! Låt oss öva svenska! Olga Koeva Swedish | Ukrainian | English | Italian | |
| 21:00 | Esperanto (fluent) | Esperanto (not yet fluent) | French (fluent) | French (not yet fluent) | ||
| 22:00 | German (fluent) | German (not yet fluent) | Spanish (fluent) | Spanish (not yet fluent) | ||
| 23:00 | Turkish | Welsh | Russian (not yet fluent) | Russian (fluent) |
Friday, April 29th, 2022
| 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 | Belarusian | Neapolitan | ||
| 01:00 | Portuguese (fluent) | Portuguese (not yet fluent) | Icelandic | |||
| 02:00 | Hebrew | Indonesian/Malay | ||||
| 03:00 | French (fluent) | French (not yet fluent) | Korean | |||
| 04:00 | English | Vietnamese | ||||
| 05:00 | Esperanto (fluent) | Esperanto (not yet fluent) | Thai | |||
| 06:00 | Japanese | Hindi | ||||
| 07:00 | Chinese (fluent) | Chinese (not yet fluent) | Czech | |||
| 08:00 | Spanish (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 | Italian | Romanian | German (fluent) | German (not yet fluent) | |
| 10:00 | Turkish | Persian | French (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 | Ukrainian | Korean | Arabic | Mongolian |
| 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 | Polish | Hindi | Russian (not yet fluent) | Russian (fluent) |
| 13:00 | 🎤 My Linguistic Journey to Scandinavia Olga Koeva English | Lithuanian | Indonesian/Malay | Portuguese (fluent) | Portuguese (not yet fluent) | |
| 14:00 | Czech | Italian | Esperanto (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) | Slovak | English | Chinese (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 | Finnish | Japanese | Spanish (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 | Catalan | Serbian/Croatian | German (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 | Estonian | Arabic | Dutch | Georgian |
| 19:00 | 🎤 Multilingual vegan meet-up Suzanne Zaccour Multilingual | 🎤 Back to school with Ukrainian 2/3 Marta Melnyk English, Polish, German | Polish | Irish | Swedish | Hungarian |
| 20:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Multilinguals: Myths and reality Sofiya Sarkisova English, Spanish | 🎤 Quiz: Test your knowledge of German idioms and grammar traps Vanessa Berger English | Ukrainian | Persian | Greek | Swahili |
| 21:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Challenge Yourself For 100 Days Erin Joel Moore Multilingual | 🎧 ▶️ Language through digital gaming Yvonne Chi English, Mandarin | Italian | Norwegian | Russian (not yet fluent) | Russian (fluent) |
| 22:00 | Turkish | Latin | Esperanto (fluent) | Esperanto (not yet fluent) | ||
| 23:00 | Tagalog | Bulgarian | Portuguese (fluent) | Portuguese (not yet fluent) |
Saturday, April 30th, 2022
| Time | Room 1 | Room 2 | Language practice room 1 | Language practice room 2 | Language practice room 3 | Language practice room 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 🎤 ⭐ Curso flash de Esperanto para hispanohablantes 1/3 Luis Obando Spanish | English | Danish | French (fluent) | French (not yet fluent) | |
| 01:00 | German (fluent) | German (not yet fluent) | Romanian | |||
| 02:00 | Chinese (fluent) | Chinese (not yet fluent) | Hindi | |||
| 03:00 | 📼 ▶ ️ O tronco tupi Flávia Scaldelai Portuguese | Japanese | Vietnamese | |||
| 04:00 | Spanish (fluent) | Spanish (not yet fluent) | Latvian | |||
| 05:00 | Korean | Cantonese | ||||
| 06:00 | Indonesian/Malay | Arabic | ||||
| 07:00 | Nepali | Wu | ||||
| 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 | Polish | Italian | |||
| 09:00 | Ukrainian | Hindi | French (fluent) | French (not yet fluent) | ||
| 10:00 | 🎤 Intro to Te Reo Māori Alec Redvers-Hill English | Catalan | Turkish | Russian (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 | Maori | Persian | German (fluent) | German (not yet fluent) |
| 12:00 | Latvian | Japanese | Esperanto (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 | Korean | Arabic | Chinese (fluent) | Chinese (not yet fluent) |
| 14:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Icelandic crash course Siru Laine English | 🎧 ▶️ Litauisch und Polnisch – distanzierte Nachbarsprachen? Krzysztof Kolanowski German | Czech | Swedish | Dutch | Hebrew |
| 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 | Icelandic | Lithuanian | French (fluent) | French (not yet fluent) |
| 16:00 | Breton | Slovak | Spanish (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 | Catalan | Tamil | German (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 | Polish | Irish | Finnish | English |
| 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 | Occitan | Hungarian | Russian (not yet fluent) | Russian (fluent) |
| 20:00 | Ukrainian | Turkish | Portuguese (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 | Italian | Arabic | French (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) | |
| 23:00 | Toki Pona | Klingon | Spanish (fluent) | Spanish (not yet fluent) |
Sunday, May 1st, 2022
| Time | Room 1 | Room 2 | Language practice room 1 | Language practice room 2 | Language practice room 3 | Language 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) | |
| 01:00 | Yiddish | Galician | ||||
| 02:00 | 📼 ▶ ️ Als Amerikanerin 7 Jahre in Deutschland Fay Wilks German | Spanish (fluent) | Spanish (not yet fluent) | Estonian | ||
| 03:00 | Indonesian/Malay | Korean | ||||
| 04:00 | Tagalog | Thai | ||||
| 05:00 | Portuguese (fluent) | Portuguese (not yet fluent) | Hungarian | |||
| 06:00 | French (fluent) | French (not yet fluent) | Swahili | |||
| 07:00 | Japanese | English | ||||
| 08:00 | 📼 ▶ ️ What Do Sign Languages Tell Us About Language? Sara Maria Hasbun English | Esperanto (fluent) | Esperanto (not yet fluent) | Slovene | ||
| 09:00 | Maori | Cantonese | German (fluent) | German (not yet fluent) | ||
| 10:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Interlinguistica ed esperantologia oggi: l'esperienza di Amsterdam Federico Gobbo Italian | 🎧 ▶️ Introduction au polonais Matthieu Desplantes French | Catalan | Italian | Serbian/Croatian | Persian |
| 11:00 | 🎤 Habla español: Spanish crash course Sonia Maćkowiak English, Spanish | 🎧 ▶️ Start Writing Now! Miriam Zeilinger English | Icelandic | Polish | Arabic | Hindi |
| 12:00 | Ukrainian | Georgian | Chinese (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 | Latvian | Turkish | Dutch | Danish |
| 14:00 | 🎧 ▶️ Ist Stenographie immer noch von Bedeutung? Rafał Darasz German | Occitan | Slovak | Japanese | Swedish | |
| 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 | Thai | French (fluent) | French (not yet fluent) |
| 16:00 | English | Indonesian/Malay | Portuguese (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 | Catalan | Korean | Russian (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 | Lithuanian | Vietnamese | Esperanto (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 | Macedonian | Arabic | German (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 | Armenian | Belarusian | Spanish (fluent) | Spanish (not yet fluent) |
| 21:00 | 🎤 Polyglots got talent Multilingual | Turkish | Persian | French (fluent) | French (not yet fluent) | |
| 22:00 | Irish | Serbian/Croatian | Hebrew | Romanian | ||
| 23:00 | Finnish | Ukrainian | Danish | Italian |
Monday, May 2nd, 2022
| Time | Room 1 | Language practice room 1 | Language practice room 2 | Language practice room 3 | Language practice room 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 🎤 ⭐ Curso flash de Esperanto para hispanohablantes 3/3 Luis Obando Spanish | Haitian Creole | Hungarian | Yiddish | Polish |
| 01:00 | Esperanto (fluent) | Esperanto (not yet fluent) | Slovak | ||
| 02:00 | Portuguese (fluent) | Portuguese (not yet fluent) | Indonesian/Malay | ||
| 03:00 | Spanish (fluent) | Spanish (not yet fluent) | Vietnamese | ||
| 04:00 | Korean | English | |||
| 05:00 | Chinese (fluent) | Chinese (not yet fluent) | Tagalog | ||
| 06:00 | Japanese | Hungarian | |||
| 07:00 | Czech | Persian | |||
| 08:00 | French (fluent) | French (not yet fluent) | Cantonese | ||
| 09:00 | German (fluent) | German (not yet fluent) | Thai | ||
| 10:00 | Esperanto (fluent) | Esperanto (not yet fluent) | Norwegian | ||
| 11:00 | Polish | Serbian/Croatian | |||
| 12:00 | Dutch | Greek | |||
| 13:00 | Italian | Arabic |