The Polyglot Gathering in Berlin

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Re: The Polyglot Gathering in Berlin

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sun May 01, 2016 5:19 pm

OK, super, eginhard! Gaeilgeoir eile! Nearly half a dozen of us.

Yeah, Solfrid is on the list of participants as well.

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If someone else is up for it, we could meet there. Otherwise we can just move somewhere else. (But it would be fun with a LLORG! team, wouldn't it?)
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Re: The Polyglot Gathering in Berlin

Postby Montmorency » Sun May 01, 2016 5:38 pm

Brun Ugle wrote:It looks like Cristina is going too, although I don't think that she reads this forum much, so she might not know we plan to meet up.


If somebody PM's her, she will hopefully be notified via email.
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Re: The Polyglot Gathering in Berlin

Postby Iversen » Sun May 01, 2016 7:28 pm

Several of us know what she looks like - and inversely - so if we see her we can mention our gathering within the gathering
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Re: The Polyglot Gathering in Berlin

Postby Yuurei » Mon May 02, 2016 10:33 am

jeff_lindqvist wrote:Wednesday
20H – 22H Language Games: tongue twister contest, multilingual anagrams, language recognition

If someone else is up for it, we could meet there. Otherwise we can just move somewhere else. (But it would be fun with a LLORG! team, wouldn't it?)

I'm game! :D

Just like Brun Ugle, I was planning on putting on a name tag with my username, so if you see someone lurking around with a "Yuurei" tag, that'd be me. :geek:
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Re: The Polyglot Gathering in Berlin

Postby Brun Ugle » Mon May 02, 2016 3:55 pm

I'll be there tomorrow in the afternoon if anyone wants to do anything then or Wednesday morning. We could go sightseeing or go to a bookstore and fight over the best language books, for example.

I don't know that I'll be very useful for tongue twisters as I frequently stumble over ordinary sentences, but if everyone else wants to make a team, I guess I can join in. I've decided to be a little brave on this trip and try things I don't normally do.
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Re: The Polyglot Gathering in Berlin

Postby Brun Ugle » Tue May 03, 2016 4:00 am

Guess who gets to organize the picnic at the end of the Gathering! :shock: This should be interesting. What have I gotten myself into this time?!
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Re: The Polyglot Gathering in Berlin

Postby Brun Ugle » Tue May 03, 2016 11:49 am

I'm here! :D :D :D Anybody else arrive yet?
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Re: The Polyglot Gathering in Berlin

Postby Brun Ugle » Tue May 03, 2016 11:50 am

Oh! And I checked in entirely in German! And it worked! :D 8-) I've never spoken German before except shadowing Assimil and repeating after FSI.
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Re: The Polyglot Gathering in Berlin

Postby Yuurei » Tue May 03, 2016 12:55 pm

Brun Ugle wrote:I'm here! :D :D :D Anybody else arrive yet?

Ah, lucky you. I'm still at work. XD Hope to see you tomorrow though. :D

Brun Ugle wrote:I don't know that I'll be very useful for tongue twisters as I frequently stumble over ordinary sentences, but if everyone else wants to make a team, I guess I can join in. I've decided to be a little brave on this trip and try things I don't normally do.

It's all about the fun anyway, no need to worry. ;)
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Re: The Polyglot Gathering in Berlin

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Tue May 03, 2016 4:04 pm

No problem! Either we compete or we don't. See you tomorrow! (I'll arrive at A&O in exactly 24 hours, barring some unforeseen incident)
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