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Richard Simcott

@speakingfluently.bsky.social

I like languages. I organise language events and conferences. #LangTwt to #LangSky SpeakingFluently.com & PolyglotConference.com

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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…

12.10.2025 14:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Title: ‘Welcome from the Chairman of the Indigenous Language Research and Development Foundation.’ Speaker: Mayaw Kumud. Polyglot Conference visual with Taipei skyline.

Title: ‘Welcome from the Chairman of the Indigenous Language Research and Development Foundation.’ Speaker: Mayaw Kumud. Polyglot Conference visual with Taipei skyline.

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 #LangSky

03.10.2025 15:54 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Title: ‘2025 Techniques and Technologies to Learn Languages with AI.’ Speaker: Fabrício Carraro. Polyglot Conference visual over the Taipei skyline.

Title: ‘2025 Techniques and Technologies to Learn Languages with AI.’ Speaker: Fabrício Carraro. Polyglot Conference visual over the Taipei skyline.

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

03.10.2025 15:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Talk title: ‘Climate change: an ally or a foe for endangered languages?’ Speaker: Audrius Sabūnas. Polyglot Conference visual with Taipei skyline.

Talk title: ‘Climate change: an ally or a foe for endangered languages?’ Speaker: Audrius Sabūnas. Polyglot Conference visual with Taipei skyline.

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

03.10.2025 15:39 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Talk title: ‘Climate change: an ally or a foe for endangered languages?’ Speaker: Audrius Sabūnas. Polyglot Conference visual with Taipei skyline.

Talk title: ‘Climate change: an ally or a foe for endangered languages?’ Speaker: Audrius Sabūnas. Polyglot Conference visual with Taipei skyline.

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

03.10.2025 15:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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.

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.

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

02.10.2025 22:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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.

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.

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

02.10.2025 21:58 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

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.

02.10.2025 21:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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.

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.

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

02.10.2025 21:48 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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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

02.10.2025 09:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

02.10.2025 09:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

02.10.2025 09:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

02.10.2025 09:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
speaknorsk | Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | Linktree Learn Norwegian at the top language school in Norway! 🇳🇴 Own-produced books.📚

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

02.10.2025 02:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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

01.10.2025 21:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

01.10.2025 21:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

01.10.2025 21:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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.

PCGlobal2025.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #Multilingüismo #Lenguaje #LangSky

01.10.2025 08:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

PCTaipei.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #LanguageRevitalization #Parenting #LangSky

01.10.2025 08:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

01.10.2025 08:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

30.09.2025 20:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

30.09.2025 20:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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.

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

30.09.2025 20:52 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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

30.09.2025 10:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

30.09.2025 09:59 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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

30.09.2025 09:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

PCGlobal2025.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #EdTech #LangTwt

29.09.2025 18:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

PCTaipei.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference
#Hakka #MigrantVoices #LangSky #LanguageLearning

29.09.2025 18:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

29.09.2025 18:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bilingual Family: help parents raise kids to speak the family languages. Rita Rosenback shares free resources for parents, educators and pros + Q&A.

Tickets: PCGlobal2025.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #Bilingual #Multilingual #Parenting #LanguageLearning #LangTwt

29.09.2025 10:50 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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