The next one was Indonesian. I like this language, and it has a reputation of an easy language. Is it so? I remember visiting an “Introduction to Indonesian” a few years ago on the Polyglot Gathering, but it is obvious that I have forgotten everything since then. So, now it is a great time to refresh the knowledge. Indonesia is spoken by 42 million people. It has borrowed many words from the other languages, but there are also many words that we use, which came from Indonesian, for example: bamboo, gong, orangutan, etc. there are no genders, declinations, tenses, but there are different prefixex, suffixes and indexes to replace them.…

Қош келдіңіз! The first crash course that we had during the polyglot meetings, was devoted to Kazakh language. It is spoken by 22 mln people, has three dialects and uses three writing systems: Arabic, Cyrillic and Latin. This is unusual. The more I try to find out about different languages, the more I am getting impressed. Anyway, we have learned a few phrases, so I can say a few words about myself now: Сәлем!Менің атым Марта. Мен Украинаданмын. Жасым отызде. Мен украинша, полякша, немісше, ағылшынша, орысша сөйлеймін.Сау болыңыз. What else would you need from the language crash course? The most important to get basics of the language – done! I…

During the quarantine, my polyglot friends decided to meet every two weeks online. These meetings were interesting from the beginning. However, with time, we have decided to add some more fun to them and to do crash courses of different languages. We have had Kazakh and Indonesian so far. The next are going to be Navajo and Pirahã. I am really excited! Additionally, during the polyglot Gathering, there were a few crash courses, one of them was held by me 🙂 So, I am going also to put here some interesting information about them. I know that crash course does not allow to learn the language completely. That would be…