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Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 2d

I have come across it before. The name is curious as it’s quite different to what we do. I wonder if anyone there likes human languages too…

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Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 11d

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.

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Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 11d

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.

Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 11d

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.

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Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks for commenting this. I didn’t know how to do this but I asked someone and learnt. I will include it from now on. We’ve had blind speakers at our event. We can always learn to be better.

Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 12d

I have my fingers crossed that you can join us then!

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Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 12d

I follow Speak Norsk on TikTok and I like a lot of their content there. They offer courses in person and online. They even teach people specifically for the language exams for the language too. Here is their linktree: linktr.ee/speaknorsk

speaknorsk | Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | Linktree

Learn Norwegian at the top language school in Norway! 🇳🇴 Own-produced books.📚

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Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 12d

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

Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 13d

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.

PCGlobal2025.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #Multilingüismo #Lenguaje #LangSky

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Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 13d

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

Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 13d

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

Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 13d

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

Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 13d

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.

PCGlobal2025.eventbrite.com #PolyglotConference #LanguageRevival #Celtic #Kernewek #LangSky

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Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 14d

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

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Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · 14d

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

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