{"id":12339,"date":"2016-05-06T10:12:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T09:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12339"},"modified":"2016-05-06T10:12:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T09:12:54","slug":"polyglot-gathering-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12339","title":{"rendered":"Polyglot Gathering 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently at the Polyglot Gathering in Berlin. I arrived here on Wednesday evening and have been speaking and hearing lots of different languages. So far I&#8217;ve had conversations in English, French, Welsh, German, Irish and Mandarin, and spoken bits and pieces of Spanish, Italian, Russian, Czech, Portuguese, Toki Pona and Esperanto. I&#8217;ve also heard some Finnish, Punjabi, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Slovak, Sardinian, Dutch, Hebrew, Indonesian, Norwegian, Swedish and other languages that I didn&#8217;t recognise.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I went to talks on Portuguese Creole languages, Greek, language learning and linguistics, how to achieve advanced language competence, and on connections between cartoons and language learning. This morning I&#8217;ve been to talks on teaching multiple languages simultaneously, and languages and dialects of Sardinia. All the talks I&#8217;ve been to so far have been in English, apart from the Sardinian one, which was in Italian.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve met lots of people I know from previous polyglot events, and lots of new people too. I might try to explore a bit more of Berlin at some point as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently at the Polyglot Gathering in Berlin. I arrived here on Wednesday evening and have been speaking and hearing lots of different languages. So far I&#8217;ve had conversations in English, French, Welsh, German, Irish and Mandarin, and spoken bits and pieces of Spanish, Italian, Russian, Czech, Portuguese, Toki Pona and Esperanto. I&#8217;ve also heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,99,102,104,105,109,111,116,118,121,127,128,129,131,10,13,17,39,41,52,54,60,64,67,71,73,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-czech","category-dutch","category-english","category-esperanto","category-finnish","category-french","category-german","category-greek","category-hebrew","category-irish","category-italian","category-japanese","category-korean","category-language","category-language-learning","category-linguistics","category-polish","category-portuguese","category-russian","category-sardinian","category-slovak","category-spanish","category-swedish","category-toki-pona","category-travel","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12339","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=12339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}