{"id":7715,"date":"2012-10-09T17:46:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T16:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=7715"},"modified":"2012-10-09T17:46:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T16:46:45","slug":"couchsurfing-and-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=7715","title":{"rendered":"Couchsurfing and languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week when looking for people in Bangor to practise my languages with I found mention of a polyglot conversation group on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchsurfing.com\/?utm_source=aff&#038;utm_campaign=omniglot\">couchsurfing.org<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s still going, but after looking around the site I thought I&#8217;d register. A few days later I got a couch request for this coming weekend from some Breton-speaking students who are currently studying Celtic Studies in Aberystwyth. So I decided to learn some more Breton this week. I&#8217;m using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0415224535\/omniglot-20\"><em>Colloquial Breton<\/em><\/a>, doing a little every day, and listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/radiobreizh.net\">Radio Breizh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard about others using couchsurfing to find people to practise languages with, but haven&#8217;t tried it myself yet. It looks like a good way to do so. Have you used it to find in this way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week when looking for people in Bangor to practise my languages with I found mention of a polyglot conversation group on couchsurfing.org. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s still going, but after looking around the site I thought I&#8217;d register. A few days later I got a couch request for this coming weekend from some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715","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=7715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}