Program
This is a provisory schedule of the talks and workshops of the Polyglot Gathering – minor changes are still possible.
The talks with a camera icon 🎥 will be recorded and put on our YouTube channel. The talks will be in the same language as the title, unless indicated otherwise.
For more details about each talk, you can download the program booklet that will be given to all participants at the Gathering.
Last-minute changes
The following information has been added to the program after the program booklet has been printed:
Crashcourse Klingon (André Müller)
Saturday, 12:00
The Klingon language (invented by Marc Okrand for the Star Trek movies and series) is one of the best developed and most famous constructed languages. Of course, 45 minutes does not suffice to fully learn this exotic language, but it will be enough to get a brief overview on the development of the language, and give an insight into its pronunciation, syntax and morphology, as well as some useful expressions. Don’t miss out on the fastest growing language of the galaxy!
How to improve language education (not only) in the EU? Challenges, problems, solutions
Thursday, 10:00–12:00
Download this PDF file for more details.
Wednesday, May 30
| Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 13-18 | Speed polyglotting and language meeting game Cesco Reale, Vanessa Berger, Ekaterina Lozina | Free mingling | Registration |
| 18-19:30 | Dinner | ||
| 19:30-20:30 | Opening ceremony | ||
| 20:30-22 | More polyglot games Cesco Reale, Miroslav Šedivý | ||
Thursday, May 31
| Room | Language Mentoring | E@I | uTalk | Assimil | Amikumu | Esperanto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | English talks | Non-English talks | Language workshops | Non-language workshops / More talks | Social events | |
| 9-10 | Fast Track Language Learning 🎥 Judith Meyer | Current challenges for multilingualism policy in the EU 🎥 Emília Andrejová | Polyglot breakfast | |||
| 10-11 | Introduction to Warlpiri: An Indigenous Language from Australia’s Northern Territory 🎥 Brian Loo Soon Hua | Das Schlesische und seine deutschen Einflüsse 🎥 Małgorzata Długosz | Speaking from day one: an interactive multilingual lesson Elisa Polese | How to improve language education (not only) in the EU? Challenges, problems, solutions 🎥 Panel discussion | Лингвистическая игра для полиглотов «Знаете ли вы пословицы на 11 языках?» Linguistic game “Proverbs in 11 languages” (RU, SK, EN, FR, ES, IT, DE, UK, BE, EO, LA) Tatiana Mozhniakova | |
| 11-12 | Love in the mirror of languages throughout the centuries 🎥 Aleksandar Medjedovic | La géographie et histoire des langues européennes 🎥 Niels Johannes Legarth Iversen | ||||
| 12-13 | How it all works: insights into the nature of language learning 🎥 Grigory Kazakov | Как полиглоты учат языки. Обзор разных методов 🎥 Ruslan Kokorin | The Polyglot Singalong (FR, ES, IT, EN) Olivia Sumich | Die Sprachenfrage in Europa: Chancen, Gefahren und Zukunftsperspektiven eines English-only Europe 🎥 Oscar Hughes | ¿Chili sin o con carne? Qué pasa con el mundo cambiando a una dieta vegana / basada en plantas Jitka Vršovská (aka Jiti Dias) | Introduction into Russian by means of folk dance Egor Anosov |
| 13-15 | Lunch | |||||
| 15-16 | The Bengali Language 🎥 Timothy McKeon | Jsou podobné či ne? 🎥 Anastasiia Martynenko | A practical workshop in the GoldList method David J. James and Lýdia Machová | Programmiersprachen für Polyglotten: eine Einführung Miroslav Šedivý | Nárečové projekty Slovenského národného korpusu: Korpus nárečí SNK a Archív nárečí SNK 🎥 Katarína Gajdošová | |
| 16-17 | Tibetan Indigenous Grammar in Colloquial Tibetan – Taught via Zoom: A synthesis of tradition and modernity 🎥 Franziska Oertle | La lectura extensiva: el método polígloto por excelencia 🎥 Joanna van Schaïk | Rôznorodosť slovenských zemepisných dialektov na Slovensku a v jazykových enklávach vo svete 🎥 Katarína Balleková | |||
| 17-18 | Start-up talks (Lexical Computing and Amikumu) 🎥 Marek Blahuš, Chuck Smith | Polyglot Punning / Multlingve vortludumi (MUL) 🎥 Kelvin Jackson | Ukrainian with Disney (all levels) Marta Melnyk | Secret Missions when you visit a Target Language country Rick Dearman | Find Your Why, Your Goal Depends On It! 🎥 Francesco Samarelli | Aligatorejo (MUL) |
| 18-19:30 | Dinner | |||||
| 19:30-21 | Culinary festival | |||||
| 21-22 | Polyglot karaoke Olivia Sumich, Marta Melnyk, Cesco Reale | |||||
Friday, June 1
| Room | Language Mentoring | E@I | uTalk | Assimil | Amikumu | Esperanto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | English talks | Non-English talks | Language workshops | Non-language workshops / More talks | Social events | |
| 9-10 | Polyglot breakfast | |||||
| 10-11 | Bet you can’t pronounce it 🎥 Brian Loo Soon Hua, Hadrian Rachwał | 5 Methoden um in einem Viertel der Zeit eine Fremdsprache fließend zu sprechen 🎥 Gabriel Gelman | Indo-Aryan for Slavic Speakers: from Sanskrit to Romani Kevin Fei Sun | Language is in the ear, not the eye: Why learning to read too soon ruins your accent 🎥 Kyle Kuzman | Chinese and Japanese calligraphy Oung-Heng Heng | |
| 11-12 | Shy perfectionists can learn, too: How to learn languages despite your internal struggles 🎥 Maria Spantidi | Apprenants intermédiaires, démoralisation et démotivation 🎥 Rick Dearman | Shanghainese: A Comparative Approach/用历史比较语言学学说上海话 Kevin Fei Sun | Deconstructing language 🎥 Simon Ager | Polyglots Dance Around the World (FR, ES, IT, EN) Olivia Sumich | |
| 12-13 | How many languages do you speak or know? The Numbers Game – Examining Foreign Language Proficiency and Relative Language Difficulty 🎥 Timothy Dean Keeley | Najczęstsze błędy Polaków uczących się języka węgierskiego 🎥 Szabolcs Szilva | Почему русские смеются? Anastasiia Lbova | Journey through the history of language learning 🎥 Santiago Diossa Muñoz | Polyglots: the Beginning (RU) Petr Fedosov | |
| 13-15 | Lunch | |||||
| 15-16 | Principles of accelerated language learning 🎥 Grigory Kazakov | Rescued from extinction: uTalk’s Manx workshop Dick Howeson | Introduction to Pashto/Pakhto 🎥 Bartłomiej Janiczak | Music Language Learning Kyle Kuzman | Sácale todo el jugo a tus sesiones de español Nacho Caballero | |
| 16-17 | Wikitongues: Preserving Languages and Talking to Strangers 🎥 Timothy McKeon, Irena Dahl | Why Hungarian is Easy Kyle Kuzman | Mehrere Sprachen parallel lernen und gleichzeitig pflegen 🎥 Philippe Gagneur, André Herling | The Language of Aviation Gavan Fantom | ||
| 17-18 | Can you learn a language while sleeping? 🎥 Luca Sadurny | Comparaison entre deux langues planifiées: Rumantsch Grischun et Esperanto 🎥 Mireille Grosjean | Language of reindeer herders: uTalk’s Southern Saami workshop Dick Howeson | Teochew: the other Minnan Chinese 🎥 Oung-Heng Heng | ||
| 18-19:30 | Dinner | |||||
| 19:30-20:30 | Multilingual concert Jonny M | |||||
Saturday, June 2
| Room | Language Mentoring | E@I | uTalk | Assimil | Amikumu | Esperanto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | English talks | Non-English talks | Language workshops | Non-language workshops / More talks | Social events | |
| 9-10 | Polyglot breakfast | |||||
| 10-11 | (Re)Learning a Heritage Language: How Hindi (and other languages) Helped Improve My Shanghainese 🎥 Kevin Fei Sun | Introduction au wallon 🎥 Simon Lejeune | Brazilian Portuguese Phonology Fábio | Creanguages. Learning new words by writing songs and poetry Arina | Suomalais-ugrilaiset kielet 🎥 Kelvin Jackson | |
| 11-12 | A structured approach to online language teaching integrating LingQ and other online resources 🎥 | La recette des apprentis polyglottes 🎥 Cécile Plecenik | An Introduction to the Persian Language through Singing Renate Hafemann | Learn to knit better than your grandma (MUL) Kryštof Klestil | Arabic with Romanized letters 🎥 Bojana Zlatić | Kio? Kie? Kiam? Petr Fedosov |
| 12-13 | The Importance of Affect (Emotions) When Functioning in Foreign Languages and Cultures 🎥 Timothy Dean Keeley | Mitoj de poliglotoj aŭ kial la tuta homaro ne estas plurlingva 🎥 Peter Baláž | Crashcourse Klingon André Müller | Canada – A Multilingual Country (With 2 Official Languages) 🎥 Matthew Schleifer | ||
| 13-15 | Lunch | |||||
| 15-16 | “I’m Not Dead Yet!” Waking the Sleeping Language of Tunica 🎥 Dave Prine | Interpreters at Work (DE EN FR) 🎥 Madeline Vadkerty, Lissie Doerrer, Vahagn Petrosyan and Sayf Camran | Introduction to Esperanto in 100 minutes Tim Morley | Meditado – kial kaj kiel ĝin praktiki? Peter Baláž | Learn how to pronounce German correctly with the IPA 🎥 Ellen de Visser | Aligatorejo (MUL) |
| 16-17 | Language Mentoring two years later: No one is taught, everyone is learning! 🎥 Lýdia Machová | Neuro-plasticità e implicazioni nell’apprendimento delle lingue 🎥 Stephen Artinian | So You Want to Build a Language App? 🎥 Eugenio Grapa | |||
| 17-18 | A Talent for Languages 🎥 Richard Simcott | Lightning talks 🎥 | Following the News in Five Languages: An App, A Research Project, and an Invitation Mircea Lungu | Fizikaj ekzercoj por ĉekomputilaj homoj Ekaterina Lozina | Keyboard Layout for Polyglots 🎥 Adam Libuša | |
| 18-19:30 | Dinner + speakers’ dinner | |||||
| 20-22 | International culture evening | |||||
Sunday, June 3
| Room | Language Mentoring | E@I | uTalk | Assimil | Amikumu | Esperanto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | English talks | Non-English talks | Language workshops | Non-language workshops / More talks | Social events | |
| 9-10 | Polyglot breakfast | |||||
| 10-11 | The three-part strategy for improving listening skills 🎥 Tran Quang Hung | Language learning with Sports 🎥 Tervel Zwjatkow | Adapter un « Bullet Journal » pour l’apprentissage des langues Maryline Lengert | How I learned 2000 Chinese characters in 50 days, and you can too 🎥 Pablo Román | Language challenge: Esperanto | |
| 11-12 | Don’t be intimidated by Asian languages! 🎥 Jana Fadness | L’utilisation de nos talents linguistiques pour créer un monde plus tolérant : l’étude de documents concernant l’Holocauste 🎥 Madeline Vadkerty | Get to know one of most beautiful languages in the world (Turkish) Jarosław Szemet | The Talent Question 🎥 Gareth Popkins | Language challenge: Slovak for Slavic speakers | Dance is the language of the soul Marta Melnyk |
| 12-13 | 『らくらくでペラペラよ!』: Japanese through onomatopoeia! 🎥 Jennifer Geacone-Cruz | Finally, a new logika système de transliteración for Chinês: il Mandarino was never so simpla! (EN, FR, ES, PT, IT, EO) 🎥 Cesco Reale | Slavic inflections: An introduction to Russian and Polish languages Olga Diacova | The Concept of Mapping applied to Foreign Language Acquisition / 论映射在外语习得中的应用 🎥 Hadrian Sebastian Rachwał | Language challenge: Slovak for non-Slavic speakers | |
| 13-15 | Lunch | |||||
| 15-16 | The Austronesian Languages: The Family that Spread from China’s Southern Coast to Madagascar and Polynesia 🎥 Brian Loo Soon Hua | Les grands espaces linguistiques du monde 🎥 Nicolas Viau | Learning a language through “authentic listening” of songs: a workshop about Italian Davide Bozzo | Hand Off, Headphones On: Don’t Miss Out On Language Podcasts Kerstin Cable | Aligatorejo (MUL) | |
| 16-17 | When will AI powered voice-bots replace humans in language teaching? 🎥 Silver Ilves | Lightning talks (MUL) 🎥 | Mandarin and Slovak demonstration lessons 🎥 italki | |||
| 17-18 | Closing ceremony | |||||
| 18-19:30 | Dinner | |||||