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| Torbyrne Super Polyglot Senior Member Macedonia SpeakingFluently.com Joined 6096 days ago 126 posts - 721 votes  Speaks: French, English*, German, Spanish, Dutch, Macedonian, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Czech, Catalan, Welsh, Serbo-Croatian Studies: Sign Language, Toki Pona, Albanian, Polish, Bulgarian, TurkishA1, Esperanto, Romanian, Danish, Mandarin, Icelandic, Modern Hebrew, Greek, Latvian, Estonian | Message 1 of 60 29 August 2012 at 10:38am | IP Logged | ||
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I've been an active online community member now for 4 years and I have enjoyed watching the community grow over that time. Many of us have been meeting up offline and talking to others via Skype way more than we did in the past.
Luca and I would like to take that a step further now and organise annual Polyglot Conferences in Europe and the US (we are open to other continents in the future too, of course!). What we are trying to do is work with the community to make this something for us all. Of course, we have ideas of things we'd like to do, but we've left it open for the first couple of months to really thought-shower on this. This forum is where I started really interacting with other learners and I think it is a fitting place to ask for input too. We launched a video on my YouTube channel today with links to further details about how you can get involved. Luca and I are excited about this and we look forward to hearing from you. :) Edited by Fasulye on 21 January 2014 at 3:49pm 15 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 60 29 August 2012 at 11:17am | IP Logged | ||
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Splendid idea. If the location of each conference is within reach for a reasonable price I would certainly be interested in attending. It would probably be difficult to get hundreds of participants who acknowledge being polyglots, and I see a risk if it ends up as a pure Anglophone event - there must at least be a room for 'crocodiling' (in the Esperanto sense of the word) - but we have to start somewhere.
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| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4633 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 3 of 60 29 August 2012 at 11:29am | IP Logged | ||
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Agreed, I believe it would be a great idea and make the community even more lively (not
that it's not though). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 4 of 60 29 August 2012 at 12:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is a splendid idea and I would love to help organising this. I'm planning to send an
email about this later :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Torbyrne Super Polyglot Senior Member Macedonia SpeakingFluently.com Joined 6096 days ago 126 posts - 721 votes Speaks: French, English*, German, Spanish, Dutch, Macedonian, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Czech, Catalan, Welsh, Serbo-Croatian Studies: Sign Language, Toki Pona, Albanian, Polish, Bulgarian, TurkishA1, Esperanto, Romanian, Danish, Mandarin, Icelandic, Modern Hebrew, Greek, Latvian, Estonian | Message 5 of 60 29 August 2012 at 1:13pm | IP Logged | ||
I'd be thrilled to see you there. Certainly English will play a big role. The plan is to have the conferences based loosely on the Esperanto conference model. We'd have opportunities for participants to interact with each other, like people do at polyglot bars with name badges with languages marked on them. We want the event to be both interesting and practical, so we'd like to see talks on various topics from linguistics, learning techniques and accents to employment avenues for people with language skills. At this stage we need to gauge who is interested, way people want to see/hear to make it for as wider audience as possible and who can help realise te logistics of organising such an vent with us. This is a community thing in every sense of the word! :) Edited by Torbyrne on 29 August 2012 at 1:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4716 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 6 of 60 29 August 2012 at 2:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Awesome idea, Richard and Luca!
I'd love to be able to go, but I probably won't =/ Anyway, I'll be expecting you guys in BRazil in the near future =) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4992 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 60 29 August 2012 at 10:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't know him personally, but I think Vincent from the polyglot club in Paris could
give a lot of input, in terms of reception of the event, how to make it attractive, what people like/want/dislike/hate, etc. Moreover, you could use other platforms as a start-up, such as the EXPOLINGUA fair or the Esperanto Congress. ...And of course your poliglotti.eu-performance! ;-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4829 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 8 of 60 29 August 2012 at 10:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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What is the main purpose, or are the main purposes of the conference?
Is it to encourage polyglottery per se, or is it more a general encouragement of the language-learning ethic, which is not necessarily about polyglottery (polyglottism?), but might be as simple as trying to encourage someone to learn one second language? And is its target audience going to be people who consider themselves already polyglots, or people who are just interested in learning 2nd, 3rd, or maybe 4th languages, but who never really think of themselves as polyglots, and don't really have ambitions in that direction? After all, HTLAL is specifically a place for people interested in self-learning languages, which is not necessarily the same as a place for polyglots, although of course there is some overlap. 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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