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| chokofingrz Pentaglot Senior Member England Joined 5186 days ago 241 posts - 430 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Japanese, Catalan, Luxembourgish | Message 17 of 85 14 June 2014 at 1:09am | IP Logged | ||
Why, what's he going to do? :p 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6906 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 18 of 85 20 June 2014 at 6:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Speak to people in unintelligible Irish. ;)
Thanks to Judith/Sprachprofi who was one of the main organizers of this event. I can't for my life imagine how many hours the team has spent on planning this. I met quite a few members from HTLAL - hope to see you all again someday! Surprises: The number of Swedish speakers. The first language I heard when I entered the registration room was Swedish (spoken by a Pole). Highlights: Richard Simcott's badge with spoken languages. ("TRY ME!") Richard Simcott's multilingual singing. Wow. Funny moments: My fellow Swede Tore's witty song about the Polyglot Gathering 2014. Cesco, Stas, Guy and André singing their version of Yellow submarine. The tongue twisters. Köyliöläisen yötyöläisen hääyöaie. Megnemszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért Doing the impossible: André Müller's perfect score in the writing systems quiz. I might write a more detailed report someday but now I have to catch up on lost sleep. Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 22 June 2014 at 10:37pm 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4704 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 19 of 85 20 June 2014 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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Surprisingly, the first person I saw was our own jeff_lindqvist, and we spoke Swedish,
so...;) I posted some thoughts in my log. And Tore's song was hilarious! 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6467 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 20 of 85 21 June 2014 at 10:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you everyone for attending! It's the participants that made this event as
memorable as it was. Here are some videos of the cultural evening: Richard Simcott (torbyrne on HTLAL) performing "Let it Go" in 25 languages (despite having used up his voice practising languages the previous night): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GlfRzNr8TQ Cesco, André (vortarulo on HTLAL) and the phoneticists singing "Yellow Submarine" while replacing common sounds with exotic ones: http://on.fb.me/1lV513X Tore Haglund's song about the Polyglot Gathering: http://on.fb.me/1nqVQep The lectures are not online yet, but you can subscribe to the official Youtube channel of the Gathering in order to be notified when they are uploaded: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_8BR59zKgBzeWPxFtmHSwA The Writing System Challenge, if you want to see how you compare to André. Note that all these words are English loanwords, so you don't need to know the language in order to understand them, just the writing system: http://bit.ly/1nrm1By Edited by Sprachprofi on 21 June 2014 at 3:56pm 10 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Rob_Austria Heptaglot Groupie Austria Joined 4999 days ago 84 posts - 293 votes Speaks: German*, Italian, Spanish, French, English, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Croatian, Mandarin, Russian, Arabic (Written), Turkish | Message 21 of 85 21 June 2014 at 10:58am | IP Logged | ||
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I would also like to congratulate the organizers. They did an absolutely amazing job. I came to Berlin tired and exhausted from work and had to finish a translation on the first night. I had even thought about not going because I had been so busy before.
I would have regretted that forever, I guess. It certainly was an event I'll remember for a long time for its perfect organization and the laid-back and incredibly motivating atmosphere. And it was a truly multilingual meeting. People spoke in many different languages all the time (also some of the presentations were given in languages other than English). Since the gathering lasted 4 days all participants had lots of opportunities to practise their languages. It was such a pleasant experience to meet so many like-minded people. Jeff and I also had some interesting conversations. Our flights home almost departed at the same time so we managed to talk in various languages at the airport too. Thanks to everyone who participated and a big thank you again to the organizers! 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4704 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 22 of 85 21 June 2014 at 11:03am | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah, I forgot to mention that (shame on me!), but the organisation was absolutely
brilliant. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| MartinB Triglot Newbie GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5696 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: German*, Esperanto, English | Message 23 of 85 21 June 2014 at 5:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Martin here. I usually only lurk on these forums. It is a great pleasure to read how much enjoyment our Gathering brought to all off you. I will read everything after I'm back home. (Currently visiting my parents.) But it was marvelous as well. And great fun to see so many people switching into all kinds of languages. It also motivated me to work on the next ones.
All the best, Martin 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5346 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 24 of 85 22 June 2014 at 7:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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I attended too and loved it just as much as the Budapest event, possibly even more due to the extra 2 days, so well done to the organisers from me too.
I met a few people from the forum, but apparently missed a couple of others like Tarvos and Jeff Lindqvist, although maybe I did meet them and didn't realise it. This time the extra pluses were sharing a room with 7 other language geeks and the evening activities (I especially enjoyed taking part in all of the games). 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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