Polyglot Conference

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I'm so grateful and excited for the chance to give a presentation at the upcoming @polyglot_confer in Taipei! 😃

ILRDF welcome tweet Welcome from Mayaw Kumud, Chair of ILRDF - supporting Taiwan’s Indigenous languages through research, education, certification, and Austronesian links. PCTaipei.eventbrite.com #PolyglotConference #IndigenousLanguages #Taiwan #Austronesian #LangTwt

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. PCTaipei.eventbrite.com #PolyglotConference #AI #LanguageLearning #EdTech #LangTwt

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 #LangTwt

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 #LangTwt

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 #LangTwt

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

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 #LangTwt

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 #LangTwt

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 #LangTwt

dxʷləšucid (Lushootseed) & Salishan languages: history, contact, revival; sound system, verb structure, derivational morphology + resources & media. Kevin Fei Sun. PCTaipei.eventbrite.com #PolyglotConference #Lushootseed #Salishan #IndigenousLanguages #Linguistics #LangTwt

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 #LangTwt

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. PCTaipei.eventbrite.com #PolyglotConference #LanguageLearning #Multilingual

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

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. PCTaipei.eventbrite.com #PolyglotConference #LanguageRevitalization

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 #LangTwt

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 #LangTwt