{"id":17297,"date":"2019-01-02T15:36:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T14:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=17297"},"modified":"2019-01-02T15:36:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T14:36:40","slug":"polyglot-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=17297","title":{"rendered":"Polyglot Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/polyglot.gif\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"Polyglot - definition\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I just registered for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polyglotbratislava.com\/\">Polyglot Gathering<\/a> in Bratislava at the end of May \/ beginning of June. This will be the fifth time I&#8217;ve been to the Gathering &#8211; the second in Bratislava, and I&#8217;m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be staying in the same AirBnB as last time, which is close to the Gathering venue, and not too far from the centre of Bratislava. It&#8217;s easier that way as I already know my way around the area.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t decided if I&#8217;ll give a presentation or run a workshop at the Gathering. At previous polyglot events I&#8217;ve given talks on writing systems, the origins of languages, the origins of words, Manx, and language death and revival, and helped with a Welsh language workshop. Any suggestions for what I could talk about at this and future polyglot events?<\/p>\n<p>At the end of January I&#8217;m going to Edinburgh for <a href=\"http:\/\/lingofringo.com\/\">LingoFringo<\/a>, a fringe event to the main polyglot conferences and gatherings with a focus on workshops, community and networking events. I&#8217;ll be running a workshop on traditional Scottish Gaelic songs there.<\/p>\n<p>So this month I&#8217;ll be brushing up my Scottish Gaelic, preparing for the workshop, and continuing to work on other languages. The languages I&#8217;m focusing on currently are Swedish, Danish, Russian, Esperanto, Cornish and Scots. This year I also plan to learn some more British Sign Language and Slovak, and maybe some German, Czech and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t plan to start any new languages this year &#8211; we&#8217;ll see how that works out.<\/p>\n<p>What are your language-related plans for this year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just registered for the Polyglot Gathering in Bratislava at the end of May \/ beginning of June. This will be the fifth time I&#8217;ve been to the Gathering &#8211; the second in Bratislava, and I&#8217;m looking forward to it. I&#8217;ll be staying in the same AirBnB as last time, which is close to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,100,104,105,116,10,13,23,40,52,55,56,58,60,64,67,73,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech","category-danish","category-english","category-esperanto","category-german","category-language","category-language-learning","category-manx","category-polyglottery","category-russian","category-scots","category-scottish-gaelic","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\/17297","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=17297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}