Language learning meetings - The First Autumn Meeting =)

Aw, vince, it's easy! =)
I'm just preparing a couple sheets of paper with the table on them,
every participant is supposed to write down his/her name,
country or tick the networks they are in (pglot/cs/facebook).
It take only 30 seconds from a person to fill in the data in the table.
I can send an example of the table if you like!

Cheers,
Alex

Comment written by

AssESSoR on Aug 29, 2008 @ 12:01

great reports! Now you must be the one who give advices

How do you manage to get all those stats ?!

Comment written by

vincent on Aug 29, 2008 @ 09:42

Hihi, people, ain't you bored of my reports?

You ask me whether it was fun? Definitely!
Even though the 'tablets' with the language names
which were supposed to mark language groups were
blown away with the wind, we succeeded to speak
English (no surprise, huh?),
French (with solid support of Coco & Fabio),
Italian (suppose that were Andrea & Alberto who
formed that group =),
Deutsch/Dutch (Je n'sais pas, I don't understand
a word in those languages... yet...)
Anyway, we can brag we could speak 13 languages
yesterday... or maybe even more.
Just to mention:

1. Russian
2. English
3. French
4. German
5. Italian
6. Portuguese
7. Greek
8. Dutch
9. Afrikaans
10. Hindi
11. Spanish
12. Malay
13. Chinese

Missed some? Feel free to add -)

Oukay, so to the list of participants -

1. Vladimir Galakhtin (Ru)
2. Michael Erasmus (South Africa/Holland)
3. Anna Yurieva (Ru, Crimea)
4. Tista Nayak (India)
5. Olga Aseeva (Ru)
6. Danilkina Irina (Ru)
7. Alex Volkov (Ru)
8. Simon Farhat (Greece)
9. Aude Friren Coco (France)
10. Zhuravleva Olga
11. Alexander Mamich (Ru)
12. Benson Lim (Malaysia)
13. Eric Khod (Malaysia)
14. Alberto Fornasier (Italy)
15. Fedotov Ilya (Ru)
16. Fabio Rocha (Brazil)
17. Maksim Kosko (Ru)
18. Louis Blanc (Ru/Ch)
19. Marina Gevlya (Ru)
20. Tanya Roslyakova (Ru)
21. Sam Halterman (US)
22. Anrea Bassi (Russian? =) )
23. Nemanja Randjelovich (Slovenia?)

forgot somebody? hope not =)

Uff...

Ah. Just some more statistics:
Registered
on pglot.com - 13 of participants
on CS - 16
on Vkontakte - 9
on Facebook - 8.

See you next Thursday, guys!
Happy 1st September,
Alex

Comment written by

AssESSoR on Aug 29, 2008 @ 08:39

notification sent

Total members in Moscow City = 1924

regards,

Comment written by

vincent on Aug 27, 2008 @ 10:44

Hiyee, vince!
I finally did it (report).
About my trip - still have not booked tickets (hard times at work),
but still hope to come to Paris in some period from 13th to 22nd of September...
I have a one-year-valid visa to France so I do believe I'll visit Paris Club of Polyglot more than once

in the nearest time...

Comment written by

AssESSoR on Aug 25, 2008 @ 16:59

Thanks Alex for your report !! and your trip to Paris : when is it ?? :-)

Comment written by

vincent on Aug 25, 2008 @ 16:42

Oukay!
The list of participants:

1. Olga Fomina
2. Irina Danilkina
3. Ilya Fedorov
4. Oksana Kulikova
5. Katerina Kuznetsova
6. Jaime Gerth
7. Tista Nayak
8. Anna Yurieva
9. Tania Liburkina
10. Kaff Christina Merrild
11. Momica Prats Castellvi
12. Kosko Maxim
13. Nemanja Randjelovic
14. me (come late, sorry...)
15. Vladimir Chirkov

Some topics:
The matrix (movie) and the possibility of waking up
speaking a new language
did all current languages come from one ancestor
language?
water quality in different parts of the world
Scarecrow Vs. effigy
The Wizard of Oz
Hitchhiking...

Comment written by

AssESSoR on Aug 25, 2008 @ 16:39

Hi, guys!
It's our short report again!
Sorry for delay, hope it did not ruin your plans about anything -)
So... I'll give a list of participants a bit later, first I'd like
to thank Tista for making the list of participants appear -)
Thank you, Tista!

Annd... I wanna thank everybody who have visited us for the very
first time
(Ilija,
handsome (it's like a hook for girls =)) Slovakian guy,
who's name I remember only after looking at Tista's list... and
Kaff of course, the main girl on the boat!)
as well as our regular visitors:
Tista, Andrea, Irina, Olga (& Sergey), Sam, Oksa!
Feel free to add your name to the list -)

Was happy to see you all,
till next Thursday!
Kindly,
Alex

Comment written by

AssESSoR on Aug 25, 2008 @ 16:29

Mailing sent
Total members in Moscow City = 1911

Comment written by

vincent on Aug 20, 2008 @ 11:13

Hi again, dear Polyglots!
Traditional short report on the meeting -)

The gathering was fun! (no surprise

)

We spoke mostly English, some Russian and sometimes lambent Spanish =) ...
Suppose there were some attempts to have conversations in German -
add your comments here if you can confirm that =)

Different topics were covered - like...
Various exams on languages and Russian language difficulties,
Russian "language schools" and
Russian medicine (in Irkutsk and other places).

Thanks to Lali for gripping narrative about Spain/Catalonia life features on work & life!
Special thanks to Vladimir for his songs & guitar-playing!

Thanks to every comer, see the list of the participants below:

1. Olga Fomina, CS:Olga & Sergey, Poly: leolya
2. Eulalia Castelli, CS:lalicm
3. Anna Yurieva, CS: Yaltinka, Polyglot: jaltinka
4. Tista Nayak
5. Olga Zhuravleva, Poly: chaykayf
6. Chirkova Tatyana
7. Liuba Taran, CS:BEE23
8. Chirkov Vladimir
9. Alexander Volkov, CS:ASSESSOR, Poly: AssESSoR
10. Andres Bassi, CS:CERBASSI
11. Monica Prats, CS:OCTARINA8, Poly: OCTARINA8
12. Natalya Sidorova, CS: -, Poly: strangetime

Highly possible that I missed somebody this time.
If so - don't hesitate to add yourself hereby -)

See you next Thursday!

Reportingly,
Alex

Comment written by

AssESSoR on Aug 15, 2008 @ 09:40

vince, thanks for support!
mailing is real help to remind Moscow Polyglots that we're gathering and getting steady =)
also word of mouth attracts new members to our meetings

suppose we'll become crowdy when school year starts
regards,
Alex

Comment written by

AssESSoR on Aug 07, 2008 @ 08:40

Hi Alex

sorry for the delay

i've just sent the email to Mosow

Total members in Moscow City = 1882

Comment written by

vincent on Aug 06, 2008 @ 18:25

Good morn, guys and gals!
Short report on the meeting again

It was not crowdy this time and it seems the evening was fun! (just as usual). PHOTOS are available!

We spoke mostly English and some Russian at the beginning just to warm up.
*UPDATE* - maybe Vicor and Tania spoke Spanish? ...

IMHO, the gathering was a little bit academic. The topics I took part in discussion are:
-Wired & wireless networks,
-emoticons & texting language,
-how to learn Japanese,
-various questions on writing rules and exceptions in Russian/Turkish/Japanese languages
-where to find Russian movies with subtitles
-...

Thanks to every comer, see the list of the participants below:

1. Elena Rukhlova, CS:RENMA
2. Alexander Ivashkevich, CS:ALEXANDER IVASHKEVICH
3. Darya Safonova, CS: LASPI, Polyglot: laspi
4. Olga Fomina, CS:Olga & Sergey, Poly: leolya
5. Tanya Karaseva, CS:tanuxa
6. Burak Ozturk, CS:BURAQ
7. Alexander Volkov, CS:ASSESSOR, Poly: AssESSoR
8. Pavel Chuchkalov, CS:bgun, Poly: -
9. Liuba Taran, CS:BEE23, Poly: bee23
10. Oksa Kulikova, CS:KULYA, Poly: Oksa
11. Victor Vilca, CS:VITTRO, Poly: vittro
12. Tania Liburkina, CS:BIENCH, Poly: biench

If missed somebody or some interesting topic,
please add hereby

See you next Thursday!

Reportingly,
Alex

Comment written by

AssESSoR on Aug 01, 2008 @ 11:42

Oukay, guys!
Here is a short report on the meeting on July the 24th =)

From my point of view - the meeting was a great success!
We really did speak many languages,
just for example:

Greek, Hindi, Arabic, Japanese...
and of course there were solid Spanish, French & English speaking groups!
Hah! Forgot about Russian -)

Annnd... taking over (from CS site) the tradition about mentioning the participants:

1. Antonina Mukhanova
2. Katerina Zubko (CS)
3. Me (I just forgot my name for a moment) =)
4. Krishna Neelamrasu (CS)
5. Nick Boyce (CS: MISTADOBALINA)
6. Konstantin Kochurov (CS: LOHMATYI)
7. Irina Danilkina (CS: FREEWIND)
8. Moussa (CS)
9. Dalila (Moussa's wife)
10. Vladimir Chirkov
11. Aldiyar Autalipov (CS: AESTHETE1)
12. Pandelis Perakakis
13. Kurkina Katia
14. Levina Alexandra (CS)
15. Eulelia Castellvi
16. Eduardo Abela
17. Konovalova Zhenya
18. Zubanov Aleksey
19. Laura Pearson
20. Julia Vanderham (CS: Julia Fulton)

Uff... If missed someone - let me know!
Hope wrote the names correctly =)

Was happy to see everybody!
See you next week -)

Cheers!
A

Comment written by

AssESSoR on Jul 25, 2008 @ 12:11

Hey Alex! A PG group mailing has been sent to the 1850 PG members in Moscow City. Have fun!

Comment written by

pat on Jul 15, 2008 @ 11:49

Hey you ppl!

Polyglot meetings traditionally have been on the second and fourth thursdays.... and from a modest attendance earlier, we have grown to larger numbers and more enthusiastic participation from all!

Keeping this in view, and with the consent of the regulars, we propose to meet EVERY thursday henceforth.... bt before we take the decision and carve it in stone, we will meet next thursday - the 17th of July - for an extra Polyglot session

We will also have our centre-of-universe, Alex Volkov, back by then, and we can decide there whether we want to do it regularly....

So get ready for the extra dose of headrush next thursday and all the French, Spanish, Italian, English, Arabic, Hindi you can handle!

The Venue is our Headquarters: Kafé -Stolovaya № 1'Kopeika'

The meeting is in the VERANDAH of the Café at 7pm (evening!)

Comment written by

king_k on Jul 11, 2008 @ 09:32

Dear Polyglot admins,

Please check the new POSTER and new FLYER

This will help you have lots of new participants to your meetings.

Print them out and stick them in public places where you know there are lots of foreigners.

http://www.polyglot-learn-language.com/poster.jpg

http://www.polyglot-learn-language.com/flyer.jpg

regards,

Vincent

Comment written by

vincent on Jun 25, 2008 @ 19:02

mailing sent

Total members in Moscow City = 1798

Comment written by

vincent on Jun 24, 2008 @ 17:18

Yeyk! The meeting on 5th of June was grrreat!< p>

It was really multy-languges mix! (Thanks to Margot for the term coining)
It's a pity I could not stay for a long time...
Would be happy to see everybody at the next meetings!

Thanks to Galince for rapid FOTOS posting!
More are to be added!

The next meeting is to be in a week,
on 12th of June. The place will be announced!
See you there!

Alex

Comment written by

AssESSoR on Jun 06, 2008 @ 13:18

Bonjour, tout le monde!

This time it's gonna be something special =)
I'm starting to regret that I'm coming a bit later...
We're expecting an English teacher from US, a French couple and a number of Spanish people to come!

Meet all you there!

Alex

Comment written by

AssESSoR on Jun 04, 2008 @ 16:14

Comment written by

AssESSoR on Jun 04, 2008 @ 12:47

You got it man !!

Comment written by

vincent on Jun 03, 2008 @ 15:33

Oukay, vince!
I think I will settle on this page and won't make new pages about the regular meetings,
just will be changing dates and details...
What would you say?

Comment written by

AssESSoR on Jun 03, 2008 @ 15:09

Alex,
mailing sent
Total members in Moscow City = 1763

Comment written by

vincent on Jun 02, 2008 @ 17:17