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Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.77,0:00:13.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The 2015 Polyglot Gathering is brought to you by Italki.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.88,0:00:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Become fluent in any language.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.26,0:00:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Slovakian?]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.78,0:00:25.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,French, is it fine?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.80,0:00:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be welcome.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.76,0:00:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here we go on with the Lightning Talks.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.30,0:00:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have another occasion
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.72,0:00:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to speak about a topic you are interested in.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.92,0:00:39.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means that everyone has three minutes.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.43,0:00:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Five? – He gives five? Who has more?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.99,0:00:47.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, everyone has five minutes to
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.00,0:00:49.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speak about anything he wants.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.97,0:00:52.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can use … No? – We have nothing to use.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.24,0:00:56.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I agree. We will just speak.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.58,0:01:00.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who will begin? – Thomas.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.18,0:01:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will have a look at the watch and will give a sign.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.64,0:01:10.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will use the International Language.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.18,0:01:14.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am going to speak about Faroese.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.81,0:01:18.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s a finding when I learned Icelandic.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.05,0:01:24.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Icelandic and Faroese are in the group \Nof Insular Scandinavian languages.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.18,0:01:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Faroese has 44,000 speakers on the Faroe Islands themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.04,0:01:37.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a group of islands between Norway and Iceland.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.72,0:01:42.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s an autonomous part of Denmark.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.73,0:01:51.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are perhaps from 60,000 to 100,000 native speakers.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.73,0:01:59.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2000 a hundred seventy book were published,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.21,0:02:03.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between them 66 translations from foreign languages.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.60,0:02:11.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One book per 325 inhabitants.\NThat’s a record.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.37,0:02:22.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From 1538 on there is no more written language,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.91,0:02:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because everything was written in Danish.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.08,0:02:38.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the Faroese preserved their language\Nby dancing – chain dances.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.58,0:02:45.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One takes the hand of another \Nand forms a great circle.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.29,0:02:54.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one dances stepping four steps to the left and two steps to the right.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.48,0:03:01.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, this way they preserved more than 40,000 verses.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.20,0:03:07.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the whole language was reconstructed\Nout of those verses in the 19th century.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.48,0:03:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the 20th century they got autonomy \Nafter World War II.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.10,0:03:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they began to drive out the Danish language.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.04,0:03:31.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now in the beginning they learn Faroese only,\Nand Danish not before the third class,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.15,0:03:37.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but up to a native speaker’s level, \Nat least written
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.22,0:03:43.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to have the possibility to study \Nin Copenhagen or elsewhere in Denmark.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.86,0:03:49.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought that it was worth learning the language,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.75,0:03:55.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it is interesting in history \Nand you have a lot of books and music.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.87,0:04:03.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The best known group is Týr,\Nwho make rock music, metal rock music,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.90,0:04:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Faroese, in Danish and in English \Nand also in German.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.04,0:04:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The most famous dance and ballad is \N“Ormurin langi.”
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.00,0:04:21.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s “The Long Snake.”
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.42,0:04:25.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you!