PG2020
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Language crash course PGO 2020 – slides and video
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Polyglot Gathering Diary: The Gathering
This years Gathering, I was really everywhere. I think that most people think: Whenever, I visit any activities, I see Marta. Well, this was fun for me and it made my Gathering unforgettable. It was mostly about what I was doing during the days. Friday The first day of the Gathering, it was the first online Gathering. It was about to start at 15:00, but my first task was at 16:00. I was a content moderator during the Klingon crash course. It was really interesting (the review will be in Crash course section soon). I was picking the question for the speaker. It was a quite new task for me,…
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Polyglot Gathering Diary: Preparation
The Polyglot Gathering this year is going to be online. This is a new experience, but it should be fun. At first, I thought that my participation will be limited to only participation. 😀 I mean that I doubted that I will be able to organise the evening program and my speech, which was selected for the physical version of the event, requires interaction with the audience. So, I was accepting the fact that I will be just a regular participant this year. But in no time, I have received an email that I could do another talk for the online version. And this is where the “madness” started. So,…
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Quenya crash course
This year, I am going to give a crash course on Quenya. I am pretty excited! it is a huge challenge, especially that the audience is going to consist of polyglots. Nevertheless, I am trying to do my best to attract people to this mysterious language. Wish me luck 🙂 A description of the course Quenya is a romantic and mysterious language, mainly spoken by elves from the Lord of the Ring. It is one of the most highly developed languages J.R.R. Tolkien ever made. If you want to understand, what do Arwen and Aragorn talk about; If you want to sing along with the King at the end of…
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Public Speaking for Language learning
This was my old idea to make a speech on this topic. So, this year, I have a chance to make it come true 🙂 This will happen during my favorite Polyglot Gathering, which will be hold online. A short description on it will be about Public speaking requires a lot of efforts. The speech in a foreign language could cause even more stress, especially for an inexperienced speaker. I have learned how to make this stress work for me. I overcame the fear and learned Polish by attending a public speaking club. I will reveal to you, how exactly did I use my public speaking experience to learn Polish…