{"id":10110,"date":"2014-06-15T06:16:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T06:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10110"},"modified":"2014-06-15T06:16:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T06:16:25","slug":"polyglot-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10110","title":{"rendered":"Polyglot Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived in Berlin yesterday for the <a href=\"http:\/\/polyglotberlin.com\/\">Polyglot Gathering<\/a>, which starts today. I flew here on KLM via Amsterdam, and unfortunately my luggage stayed in Amsterdam. It should arrive today though, and I&#8217;ve coped without it so far. This is only the second time this has happened to me &#8211; the last time was when I went to Cuba via Madrid, and my luggage stayed in Madrid for a few days.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I met some of the other polyglots, some of whom speak even more languages than I do. I spoke lots of Esperanto, French and English, and some German, Dutch, Mandarin, Italian, Welsh and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>The next few days are packed with talks, language lessons and other language-related activities, and lots of polyglottery. A few people I&#8217;ve met so far are even familiar with Omniglot, which is great as I rarely meet people who know the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived in Berlin yesterday for the Polyglot Gathering, which starts today. I flew here on KLM via Amsterdam, and unfortunately my luggage stayed in Amsterdam. It should arrive today though, and I&#8217;ve coped without it so far. This is only the second time this has happened to me &#8211; the last time was when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,102,104,105,111,116,128,10,64,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-dutch","category-english","category-esperanto","category-french","category-german","category-italian","category-language","category-spanish","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}