The Polyglot Conference Global (online event) is packed full of games, language lessons, and captivating presentations, where you can connect with fellow language enthusiasts from across the globe.
A particularly exciting new feature for the 2023 event is Wise Words of Women, which is a series of interviews Richard Simcott, Judy Um and I have conducted with female language experts in the polyglot community.
Wise Words of Women
We had the pleasure of speaking to:
Lindsay Williams, co-founder of Women in Language, founder of Lindsay Does Languages
Kerstin Cable, co-founder of Women in Language, founder of Fluent Language
Shannon Kennedy, co-founder of Women in Language and the woman behind eurolinguiste blog
Shahidah Foster, also known as Language Bae, creator of Black Girls Learn Languages
Sara Maria Hasburn, also known as Miss Linguistic and founder of Meridian Linguistics
Andrea Giménez of AndyGM en Berlín Youtube channel
Content creator and localisation specialist Aysha Al-Masri Tudela
Anja Spilker, founder of Zaloa Languages
Content creator and education activist Mahya Mirsadeghi
Irish teacher and content creator Mollie Guidera of Irish with Mollie
The wealth of knowledge shared by these experts – on language learning, using languages in your career, activism, minority languages, community building, language teaching and more – is not to be missed!
Practical information
The Polyglot Conference Global is an online event happening between 4-8 October. The in-person Polyglot Conference is happening between 27-28 October in Budapest.
Tickets for Global are sold on a donation basis, with the suggested donation amount being between 30-50 €/£/$. Get your tickets here. With this ticket, not only will you get access to the interviews with these knowledgeable women, you’ll also have access to the jam-packed programme listed below.
Programme
Participants can expect the following activities throughout the 4 days we have together between 4-8 October:
- Some speaker presentations will be pre-recorded and available for you to view whenever you like during the conference.
- There will be some LIVE presentations for you to join too. These will be recorded and later made available to watch whenever you like.
- Q&A sessions will be added as speakers confirm their time slots and these will appear on the dynamic programme in the Live Environment.
- 50+ recorded italki lessons in a LOT of languages!
- Offers, deals, discounts and fun with our other partners and sponsors TBC!
- Language exchanges hosted by community members, including a number already agreed to be hosted by Olga Koeva.
- A multilingual concert by Olga Koeva.
- More things will be added to the programme as the days go on. Remember that this is a dynamic programme and YOU can also get involved!
- Previously unreleased videos from Polyglot Conference Global and Cholula 2022 as well as The Language Event Edinburgh 2023!
What are you waiting for? Get your ticket here now.
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