Polyglot Gathering 2023

Programm

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Wednesday, June 14th, 2023

TimeEsperanto roomGarden
13:00Registration
14:00
15:00
16:00Language games
17:00
18:00
19:00
20:00Opening ceremony
20:30Icebreakers with Elisa
Elisa Polese
21:00

Thursday, June 15th, 2023

TimeBabbel roomTestu roomVortoj roomEsperanto roomGarden
09:00Language Immersion through Live Group Experiences online
Michelle Kubitza, Tobias Dickmeis
English
Crash course Norwegian
Werner Skalla
English
El cuarto de juegos de Mater Latina: ubi comoedia musicaque habitant (max. 15 participants)
María de Vera
Spanish
10:00Eques polonus sum, latīnē loquor
Jan Oko
Polish
11:00Multiword Expressions: The Spice of Language Learning
Till Überrück-Fries
English
Mini language course: Arabic & Hebrew
Tom Yuval
English
Polyglot Strategy for International Crime
Prof. Dr. Stanislovas Tomas
English with elements of French, Spanish, Hebrew and Elvish
12:00The Taiwanese language, from a language learner’s perspective
Israel Lai
English
What does a child who learned her first language at the age of 11 teach us about learning and teaching languages?
Sirlara Donato Assunção Wandenkolk Alves
Polish
13:00
14:00
15:00A brief history of the languages of the world
Emily Martyn
English
Introduksion al Ladino (Djudeo-Espanyol) i el Solitreo
Carlos Yebra Lopez
Ladino
Polyglot Debate: Discuss Controversial Language Learning Ideas with the Yes/No Method
Georg Jähnig
English
16:00Brain tumor infiltrating the speech area in a polyglot patient – case of awake neurosurgery with monitoring of the speech abilities
Tristan Baliński
English, Polish, Spanish
17:00Slaying the POR and PARA Dragon: A 30-Minute Game to Master Them
JOSEP MARTI
Spanish
Penning it Down: A Hands-On Workshop for Writing in a Foreign Language
Charlotte Donnelly
English
Cracking the Knitting Code
Tanja Orme
Dutch
18:00
19:00
20:00uTalk Mini-Quiz
Charlotte Donnelly & Emily Martyn
English
20:30International Culinary Festival
21:00
22:00Polyglot disco
Marta Melnyk
23:00

Friday, June 16th, 2023

TimeBabbel roomTestu roomVortoj roomEsperanto roomGarden
09:00Finding Your Language Identity: How It Compares to Buying a Winter Coat?
Veronika Ismailova
English
Typing from Day One: Strategies to Type with Confidence in Any Language
Nacho Caballero
Spanish
Pronunciation and movement practice
Feilin
Multilingual
10:00Polyglots’ attitudes to accent and pronunciation
Mateusz Pietraszek
English
Niemiec płakał jak się nauczył polskiego – How to learn Polish effectively from scratch
Dennis Czekalla
English, Polish
Bridging the Language Gap – How Polyglots Can Save the Day
Alina Raatikainen
English
11:00Medžuslovjansky Pomoćny Język / Меджусловјанскы Помочны Језык
Michał Swat
Interslavic
12:00Does learning each new language get easier?
Gareth Popkins
English
Wikipedia and language learning: how to use it effectively and contribute to it?
KuboF Hromoslav
English
Language challenge – Medžuslovjansky
13:00
14:00
15:00Jumpstart Your Esperanto: Learn Top Morphemes and Grammar Fast
Georg Jähnig
English
Ukrainian from zero to pre-A1-hero
Zuzanna Yevtushyk and Maciej Jaskot
English, Ukrainian
How to pass 3 language exams in one year without a tutor
Krisztina Fehér
English, Spanish and French
16:00I wish I spoke my mother tongue: tips for learning Belarusian
Yelizaveta Babichava
English, Belarusian
Language challenge – Esperanto
17:00Can AI Models Teach Us Anything About How Language Works?
Kevin Fei Sun
English (with examples in various languages)
Learn Italian the smart way!
Elisa Polese
English and Italian
¡Bailar y gozar!
Jonatan Haile
Spanish
18:00
19:00
20:00uTalk Pub Quiz
Charlotte Donnelly & Emily Martyn
English
20:30Polyglot Expo
21:00Polyglot karaoke
Marta Melnyk
22:00Musical language quiz
Matthieu Desplantes
Multilingual

Saturday, June 17th, 2023

TimeBabbel roomTestu roomVortoj roomEsperanto roomGarden
09:00Publishing My Memoir “A Life in 30 Languages” as Dual Language Books: A Great Source of Comprehensible Input at Any Level
Tim Keeley
English
How to use different media for language learning
Robyn Farah, Héctor Hernández
English
Welcome to the Tower of Babel
Blanka Rzewuska
English
10:00Why care to translate?
Jonatan Haile
English, and some expressions in other languages
Speak like the Romans did
Jan Oko
English and Latin
11:00Language Revival: the Manx Language
Jeffrey C. Micher
English
Life Hacks from Theoretical Linguistics
Felicitas Andermann
German
Dancing workshop. (Zumba)
Adrian Makoć
Spanish, English, Polish
12:00The 10 secrets to help you learn any language like never before!
Elisa Polese
English
13:00
14:00
15:00Nothing Sentences (with a lot behind them)
Ruben Adery
English
Using AI to improve your accent and pronunciation
Adrian Lin
English
Learn Life Balance: setting sustainable language goals supporting but not harming other areas of life
Anna Bakova
16:00The Language Learning Journey: How can Babbel support your polyglot ambitions
Héctor Hernández
English
Esperanto Crash Course
Maciej Jaskot
Spanish
Networking event
Elisa Polese
17:00Animal communication and human language.
Santiago Diossa Muñoz
English
Fiesta latina
Agnieszka Gauza
English, French, Spanish, Polish
18:00
19:00
20:00uTalk Mini-Quiz
Charlotte Donnelly & Emily Martyn
English
20:30Multilingual concert by JoMo
JoMo
21:00
21:30Polyglot disco
22:00
23:00

Sunday, June 18th, 2023

TimeBabbel roomTestu roomVortoj roomEsperanto room
09:00Learning a sign language as a hearing person: diving into the Deaf community
Rafał Darasz
English
The benefits of learning an Exotic language (Non Verbal communication in Urdu)
Joshua Balata
English
Czego się nauczyłem o swoim języku, tworząc podcast od 3 lat
Israel Lai
Polish
10:00The Politics of Language Learning
Richard Simcott
English
Language Coaching 101: How to support your monolingual friends
Florian Kaspar
German
Você sabia que falar e comer ao mesmo tempo em língua de sinais não é falta de etiqueta?: Introdução à Língua Brasileira de Sinais
Sirlara Donato Assunção Wandenkolk Alves
Portuguese
11:00ChatGPT, AI, and the Future of Language Learning
Lucas Bighetti and Fabrício Carraro
English
Can you sing your way to fluency? Music as an underrated tool in language learning
Vanessa Berger
English
12:00Language of Crimean Tatars as Esperanto of Turkic Languages Group
Zeram Zeytullayeva
English
Wikipedia in Action: Learn How To Make World a Better Place by Practicing Languages
KuboF Hromoslav and Václav Zouzalík
English
How to communicate with machines? / Jak się dogadać z maszynami? / ...
Dawid Herman
Polish
13:00
14:00
15:00Why the majority of well-known “polyglots” online are men, and what we can do about it
Lucy
English
The mysterious Hungarian runes
Thomas Sulmon
English, Hungarian
Telephone / Viskleken / Kulaktan kulağa / Téléphone Arabe / Głuchy Telefon / 传话游戏 /
Fischers Fritz
Multilingual
16:00Hobby in lingue straniere: Spaß muss sein!
Walter Freiberg
Italian and German
Navigating the Similarity Trap: How to Learn a Mutually Intelligible Language without Falling into Interlanguage
Veronika Ismailova
English
Debate: linguistic hegemony in international communication
Cesco Reale
17:00Conference interpreting: might it suit you?
Oscar Hughes
Multilingual (English, French, German, Italian, Esperanto)
Fiesta latina
Agnieszka Gauza
English, French, Spanish, Polish
18:00
19:00
20:00uTalk Language Quiz Extravaganza
Charlotte Donnelly & Emily Martyn
English
20:30Closing ceremony
21:00Interslavic concert
22:00Talent show

Language practice tables

In addition to the talks and workshops, there will be language practice tables during the whole event.

Time Wednesday, June 14 Thursday, June 15 Friday, June 16 Saturday, June 17 Sunday, June 18
09:00 Spanish
Chinese
Slovak
Finnish
Hebrew
Polish
Dutch
Arabic
Hungarian
Catalan
French
Serbian/Croatian
Romanian
Turkish
Hebrew
German
Japanese
Bulgarian
Indonesian
Macedonian
10:00 French
Serbian/Croatian
Romanian
Indonesian
Danish
Spanish
Chinese
Slovak
Finnish
Hebrew
Italian
Japanese
Czech
Hindi/Urdu
Catalan
Ukrainian
Swedish
Greek
Hungarian
Danish
11:00 Polish
Portuguese
Arabic
Korean
Norwegian
Ukrainian
Japanese
Romanian
Turkish
Macedonian
Esperanto
Chinese
Bulgarian
Persian
Norwegian
French
Russian
Czech
Turkish
Catalan
12:00 German
Russian
Lithuanian
Persian
Kazakh
Kazakh
Swedish
Bulgarian
Hindi/Urdu
Esperanto
Kazakh
Swedish
Slovak
Indonesian
Spanish
Polish
Dutch
Arabic
Hindi/Urdu
Kazakh
13:00
14:00
15:00 Ukrainian
Dutch
Greek
Hungarian
Catalan
Italian
Portuguese
Czech
Indonesian
Norwegian
German
Russian
Lithuanian
Korean
Danish
Italian
Chinese
Slovak
Korean
Hebrew
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