{"id":123118,"date":"2019-07-26T13:36:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T04:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=123118&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2019-07-26T13:36:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T04:36:45","slug":"polyglot-conference-fukuoka-2019","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/polyglot-conference-fukuoka-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Polyglot Conference Fukuoka 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, hundreds of language learners from all over the world meet up at a different city to participate in the Polyglot Conference. This year the event will be held at Kyushu Sangyo University in Fukuoka City. It\u2019s an opportunity to celebrate regional languages and cultures, as well as join in the UN\u2019s initiative in the making 2019 the Year of Indigenous Languages. There will be workshops on language learning, language taster sessions, Japanese and other Asian cultural activities, as well as two days of presentations on topics related to language. The event is open to anyone interested in languages and their cultures. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/polyglot-1.jpg?resize=1999%2C1235&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-123120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/polyglot-1.jpg?w=1999&amp;ssl=1 1999w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/polyglot-1.jpg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/polyglot-1.jpg?resize=768%2C474&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/polyglot-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C633&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> <em>Photo: Polyglot Conference Ljubljana, Slovenia 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/polyglot-2.jpg?resize=1400%2C1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-123119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/polyglot-2.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/polyglot-2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/polyglot-2.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/polyglot-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> <em>Time Keeley and Richard Simcot, the organizers of the Polyglot Conference in Fukuoka featured in this BBC series, when BBC journalists attended the event last year in Ljubljana.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 10\/18 (Fri.) ~ 10\/20 (Sun.)<br \/>\n\u2022 Open: 9:00, start: 10:00<br \/>\n\u2022 Tickets: adult \u20ac129, student\/pensioner \u20ac119, one-day only \u20ac89<br \/>\n\u2022 Fukuoka Now readers\u2019 discount: \u20ac99 OFF (Promo code: FukuokaNow)<br \/>\n\u2022 For reservations: <a href=\"http:\/\/PolyglotConference.com\/Register\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/PolyglotConference.com\/Register\/<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Kyushu Sangyo University<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/pDx3yPFrZhTGEJzQ6\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">1 Matsukadai, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/polyglotconference.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/polyglotconference.com\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, hundreds of language learners from all over the world meet up at a different city to participate in the Polyglot Conference. This year the event will be held at Kyushu Sangyo University in Fukuoka City. It\u2019s an opportunity to celebrate regional languages and cultures, as well as join in the UN\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":123120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-123118","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-higashi-ku","event-type-seminar","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/123118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}