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Richard Simcott
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I like languages. I organise language events and conferences. #LangTwt to #LangSky SpeakingFluently.com & PolyglotConference.com
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ILRDF welcome tweet
Welcome from Mayaw Kumud, Chair of ILRDF - supporting Taiwan’s Indigenous languages through research, education, certification, and Austronesian links.

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#PolyglotConference #IndigenousLanguages #Taiwan #Austronesian #LangSky
Title: ‘Welcome from the Chairman of the Indigenous Language Research and Development Foundation.’ Speaker: Mayaw Kumud. Polyglot Conference visual with Taipei skyline.
October 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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AI study-partner tweet
AI as your study partner. Fabrício Carraro shows LLM role-plays with CEFR feedback, Whisper for pronunciation/shadowing, auto-Anki, and custom RAG agents from your notes.

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#PolyglotConference #AI #LanguageLearning #EdTech #LangSky
Title: ‘2025 Techniques and Technologies to Learn Languages with AI.’ Speaker: Fabrício Carraro. Polyglot Conference visual over the Taipei skyline.
October 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Climate change: ally or foe for endangered languages? Audrius Sabūnas on Oceania case studies - Kiribati, islands/coasts, sea-level rise and storms impacting small-speaker communities.

Tickets: PCTaipei.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #LangSky
Talk title: ‘Climate change: an ally or a foe for endangered languages?’ Speaker: Audrius Sabūnas. Polyglot Conference visual with Taipei skyline.
October 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Climate change: ally or foe for endangered languages? Ausrius Sabūnas on Oceania case studies - Kiribati, islands/coasts, sea-level rise and storms impacting small-speaker communities.

Tickets: PCTaipei.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #LangSky
Talk title: ‘Climate change: an ally or a foe for endangered languages?’ Speaker: Audrius Sabūnas. Polyglot Conference visual with Taipei skyline.
October 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Stop memorising, start speaking. David Allen Martin II’s AI-powered method: Frequency First, Rich Context, Active Recall. From words to sentences fast.

Tickets: PCTaipei.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #LanguageLearning #AI #StudyTips #LangSky
Image of Taipei skyline with the picture of the speaker in the top right side “David Allen Martin II” and the Polyglot Conference logo in the top left. The title of the talk is in the middle “Stop Memorizing, Start Speaking: An AI-Powered Method for Real Fluency”. The speaker’s name appears in the bottom middle section of the image.
October 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Ladin lessons for Taiwan’s languages: identity drives survival, shifting stigma to pride. Alex Senoner on what lasts.

Tickets: PCTaipei.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #Ladin #Taiwan #LanguageRevitalization #LangSky
Image of Taipei skyline with the picture of the speaker in the top right side “Alex Senoner” and the Polyglot Conference logo in the top left. The title of the talk is in the middle “Language Survival and Identity”. The speaker’s name appears in the bottom middle section of the image.
October 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Improv → better language learning. Andrei Veja shares 8 lessons + simple games to beat burnout and boost communication.

Tickets: PCTaipei.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #LanguageLearning #Improv #LangTwt
Image of Taipei skyline with the picture of the speaker in the top right side “Andrei Veja” and the Polyglot Conference logo in the top left. The title of the talk is in the middle “8 Language Learning Lessons from Improv Theater”. The speaker’s name appears in the bottom middle section of the image.
October 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Five thousand years in 10 words. Brian Loo Soon Hua on the Austronesian expansion from Taiwan to Madagascar–Hawaii and the shared core vocab that still links communities.

Tickets: PCTaipei.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #Austronesian #Taiwan #Linguistics #LangSky
October 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Basay revival with corpus + NLP. Mirusa Usiliq Tan builds on rare 1937 audio to map Santiau/Trobiawan dialects and create tools for learners & researchers.

Tickets: PCTaipei.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #Austronesian #LanguageRevitalization #Taiwan #NLP #LangSky
October 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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From One Word to Many - Rhonda Sophia. A clear call for young people to learn languages: empathy, opportunity, confidence. Start small, stay curious.

Tickets: PCTaipei.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #LanguageLearning #Youth #LangSky
October 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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dxʷləšucid (Lushootseed) & Salishan languages: history, contact, revival; sound system, verb structure, derivational morphology + resources & media. Kevin Fei Sun.

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#PolyglotConference #Lushootseed #Salishan #IndigenousLanguages #Linguistics #LangSky
October 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Esperanto in Taiwan: a small niche on a big island. Cheyenne Maechtle on Pingtung’s hub, teacher-led growth, and contrasts with Japan/Korea/China.

Tickets: PCGlobal2025.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #Esperanto #Taiwan #LanguageCommunity #LangSky
October 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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From zero to connection. Wilfred Mkhatshwa on how a few phrases in Turkish sparked a method -micro-phrases across Arabic, Russian, Igbo, Urdu, Swahili - where personal story meets #psycholinguistics.

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#PolyglotConference #LanguageLearning #Multilingual #LangSky
October 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Lenguaje, #neurodiversidad y libertad económica. Khadydja Ndoye muestra cómo hablar/pensar “diferente” es una ventaja: estrategia, creatividad y herramientas prácticas para convertirla en motor profesional.

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#PolyglotConference #Multilingüismo #Lenguaje #LangSky
October 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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My Life with Taigi - family, identity, activism. From switching to Mandarin → reclaiming #Taigi at home, founding a nonprofit to help parents raise Taioanese kids, and facing stigma from younger clerks.

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#PolyglotConference #LanguageRevitalization #Parenting #LangSky
October 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Story share: a CI-based way to learn each other’s languages. Cade Bushnell & Nguyen Hanh on 6 months of Vietnamese↔English—setup, results, next steps.

Tickets: PCGlobal2025.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #ComprehensibleInput #LanguageLearning #Vietnamese #English #LangSky
October 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Map the sociolinguistic gender gap (“genderlect”) - and how to close it in teacher–student interactions. Philipp Marxen uses interviews + AI text analysis.

Tickets: PCGlobal2025.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #Sociolinguistics #Gender #LanguageTeaching #EdTech #LangSky
September 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Persian’s long reach: from Arabic & Turkish to Urdu & Central Asia - vocabulary, literature, admin language, and identity. Mahya Mirsadeghi.

Tickets: PCTaipei.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #Persian #Linguistics #MiddleEast #LangSky
September 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Hal Wyn (Ralph St Vincent Allin-Collins): the 1920s–30s #Cornish revival’s most fluent voice and prolific writer - did he really grow up a native speaker? Family history, claims, and why he still matters.

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September 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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ADHD & language learning: Anna Bakova on professional language coaching—powerful questions, tailored plans, and 4 principles to support attention, motivation & follow-through.

Tickets: PCGlobal2025.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #ADHD #LanguageLearning #Coaching #LangSky
September 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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US Indigenous languages: phonology, syntax, scripts & survival. Dave Huxtable on polysynthesis/ergativity, Navajo–Mohawk–Cherokee, Cherokee syllabary, and revitalisation from schools to apps.

Tickets: PCTaipei.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #IndigenousLanguages #Linguistics #LangSky
September 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Map Asia’s tones. Stuart Jay Raj’s CLF links Thai, Lao, Vietnamese, Chinese + 300+ Tai datasets; revives Khom literacy; makes tonal/abugida systems teachable.

Tickets: PCGlobal2025.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #TonalLanguages #WritingSystems #AI #Linguistics #LangSky
September 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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#Langues #africaines & #IA. Khadydja Ndoye montre comment IA/ML/plateformes peuvent revitaliser et transmettre: dictionnaires visuels, apps vocales, agents multilingues. Défis: données, langues tonales, centralisation.

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#PolyglotConference #EdTech #LangTwt
September 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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The Polyglot Migrant Worker: from Kalimantan to Taiwan. Charis Chen on #Indonesian, #Dayak, #Hakka → English, #Hokkien, #Mandarin - dictionary days, site interpreting, and a life changed by languages.

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#PolyglotConference
#Hakka #MigrantVoices #LangSky #LanguageLearning
September 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Rethink “studying.” Karin Hiranuma on mindset, emotion, and strategy: train language like a skill, manage plateaus, plan smart first steps.

Tickets: PCGlobal2025.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #LanguageLearning #Mindset #StudyTips #LangSky
September 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM