{"id":17871,"date":"2019-05-29T21:24:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T21:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=17871"},"modified":"2019-05-29T21:24:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T21:24:35","slug":"bratislava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=17871","title":{"rendered":"Bratislava"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently in Bratislava in Slovakia for the 2019 Polyglot Gathering, which starts tomorrow, although there was an opening ceremony this evening.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/47959997676\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"The Polyglot Gathering 2019 begins\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/47959997676_cc0a54fa51_z.jpg\" alt=\"The Polyglot Gathering 2019 begins\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\"\/><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Today I went on a tour taking in three countries &#8211; Slovakia, Hungary and Austria. I had conversations in English, French, German, Mandarin, Spanish and Irish, and spoke odd bits of Czech, Slovak, Russian, Scots, Hungarian, Portuguese, Welsh, Esperanto and Swedish.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/47959988256\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Hainburg Castle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/47959988256_b14d8fece4_z.jpg\" alt=\"Hainburg Castle\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\"\/><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I probably won&#8217;t have much time for blogging with all the intensive polylgotting that&#8217;s going on. Normal service will be resumed next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently in Bratislava in Slovakia for the 2019 Polyglot Gathering, which starts tomorrow, although there was an opening ceremony this evening. Today I went on a tour taking in three countries &#8211; Slovakia, Hungary and Austria. I had conversations in English, French, German, Mandarin, Spanish and Irish, and spoke odd bits of Czech, Slovak, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,99,104,105,111,116,123,127,10,41,52,55,60,64,67,73,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-czech","category-english","category-esperanto","category-french","category-german","category-hungarian","category-irish","category-language","category-portuguese","category-russian","category-scots","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\/17871","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=17871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}