{"id":10839,"date":"2015-01-12T17:32:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10839"},"modified":"2015-01-12T17:32:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:32:38","slug":"language-and-travel-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10839","title":{"rendered":"Language and travel plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about my language and travel plans for this year and have decided to spend a few weeks in Russia &#8211; probably in July &#8211; at a Russian language school. Every year for the past ten years I&#8217;ve gone to Ireland to do courses in Irish language, singing and music in July, but this year I fancy a change. I plan to learn as much Russian as I can before going to Russia and to focus mainly on Russian throughout this year, while keeping my other languages ticking over.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the trip to Russia, I&#8217;m going to the Polyglot Gathering in Berlin at the beginning of May, and on a choir trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oloron-ste-marie.fr\/\">Oloron Sainte Marie<\/a> in the south west of France at the end of May. I also plan to do a course in Scottish Gaelic song in Scotland in August and will probably go to the Polyglot Conference in New York in October.<\/p>\n<p>Can any of you recommend a Russian language school?<\/p>\n<p>When is the best time of year to visit Russia?<\/p>\n<p>What are you language\/travel plans for this year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about my language and travel plans for this year and have decided to spend a few weeks in Russia &#8211; probably in July &#8211; at a Russian language school. Every year for the past ten years I&#8217;ve gone to Ireland to do courses in Irish language, singing and music in July, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,13,52,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-language-learning","category-russian","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10839","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=10839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}