{"id":15648,"date":"2018-06-02T08:37:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T07:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=15648"},"modified":"2018-06-02T08:37:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T07:37:09","slug":"its-not-just-about-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=15648","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not just about languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-header=\"true\" data-footer=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/42440539712\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Dance workshop at the Polyglot Gathering\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/889\/42440539712_d84770f40f.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Dance workshop at the Polyglot Gathering\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>As well as talks about language learning, languages and related topics, this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polyglotbratislava.com\/\">#PoylgotGathering<\/a> includes workshops in singing songs in various languages, calligraphy, knitting and dancing. Yesterday I caught the end of a dancing workshop, and learnt a bit of belly dancing, and a folk dance from Brittany. It was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>I also did a bit of juggling and poi spinning with a few other polyglots yesterday, and there was a musical jam session with a few people who had instruments with them. I don&#8217;t have any instruments with me this year as I&#8217;m travelling light with only one small bag.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight there&#8217;s an international cultural evening, and I plan to sing a Welsh folk song (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/songs\/welsh\/gwcwfach.htm\">Gwcw Fach<\/a>), and maybe a Scottish Gaelic song (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticlyricscorner.net\/mactalla\/illean.htm\">Illean Bithibh Sunndach<\/a>). Some of us who took part in the singing workshop on Thursday with be singing songs in Maori and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>Languages I spoke yesteday &#8211; English, French, German, Spanish, Welsh, Irish, Swedish, Slovak, Mandarin, Dutch, Esperanto, Portuguese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As well as talks about language learning, languages and related topics, this year&#8217;s #PoylgotGathering includes workshops in singing songs in various languages, calligraphy, knitting and dancing. Yesterday I caught the end of a dancing workshop, and learnt a bit of belly dancing, and a folk dance from Brittany. It was a lot of fun. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,102,104,105,111,116,127,24,41,60,64,67,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-dutch","category-english","category-esperanto","category-french","category-german","category-irish","category-maori","category-portuguese","category-slovak","category-spanish","category-swedish","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15648","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=15648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}