{"id":10551,"date":"2014-10-11T21:32:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T21:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10551"},"modified":"2014-10-11T21:32:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T21:32:51","slug":"polyglottery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10551","title":{"rendered":"Polyglottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/cathedral_novisad.jpg\" width=\"153\" height=\"204\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" alt=\"Novi Sad Catholic Cathedral\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning I met up with other conference participants and after a bit of a wander around the city, we had lunch then went to the opening ceremony a reception. In the after we had a little guided tour of Novi Sad seeing some interesting buildings, including the Catholic or Orthodox Cathedrals, and the fortress. There are some rather attractive buildings here, wide, pedestrianised caf\u00e9-lined streets, some nice parks and generally a relaxed kind of atmosphere. <\/p>\n<p>In the evening we all went to a restaurant about 4 or 5km from the city centre for dinner. I walked there with a few others, and the rest went by bus or taxi. We had a nice dinner with lots of polyglot chat, then some people started dancing, and others carried on chatting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/townhall_novisad.jpg\" width=\"204\" height=\"153\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" alt=\"Novi Sad town hall\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today there were lectures and talks on a variety of topics including sound symbolism, the magic of metaphors, language coaching, and acting and humour in a foreign language.<\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve had conversations in about 10 languages and spoken bits and pieces of maybe 10 others. In some cases this was only a few words (all I know), in others it was a bit more. There are even two guys here who are learning Scottish Gaelic, one of whom also speaks a bit of Manx, and another who is learning Irish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning I met up with other conference participants and after a bit of a wander around the city, we had lunch then went to the opening ceremony a reception. In the after we had a little guided tour of Novi Sad seeing some interesting buildings, including the Catholic or Orthodox Cathedrals, and the fortress. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,99,100,102,104,105,111,116,118,127,128,129,131,10,13,23,37,39,41,52,56,57,58,60,64,67,73,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-czech","category-danish","category-dutch","category-english","category-esperanto","category-french","category-german","category-greek","category-irish","category-italian","category-japanese","category-korean","category-language","category-language-learning","category-manx","category-persian-farsi","category-polish","category-portuguese","category-russian","category-scottish-gaelic","category-serbian","category-sign-language","category-slovak","category-spanish","category-swedish","category-travel","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551","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=10551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}