Jelena is a native Serbian speaker from Belgrade, Serbia. After finishing high school, she moved to France to study law, where she discovered her passion for languages. During her studies, she realised how closely language and communication are connected, which inspired her to start teaching French as a foreign language. Later, she also began teaching Serbian. Although it is her native language, teaching it to non-native speakers led her to explore its grammar and structure in much greater depth, turning the challenge into a true passion. 

Today, Jelena teaches Serbian while continuing to pursue her love of languages. She is fluent in Serbian, French, English, and Italian, and is currently learning Greek and Russian.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/speaking_serbian/ 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/20xq7fftOLHytlz61P0WCy 

Benjamin Barrell is a life long linguaphile, originally from California but now based in Amsterdam. An engineer by trade, he decided to quit his job 3 years ago and started phrasing.app - an app purpose built for polyglots. It makes language learning beautiful, addicting, and atomic, allowing you to study multiple languages, to fluency and beyond! When he’s not working on his app, you can find him in the water, at the callisthenics park, or chasing down his co-founder: a Siberian husky by the name of Ender 🐶

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PhrasingApp 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/phrasing.app/ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrelltech/?originalSubdomain=nl 

X: https://x.com/barrelltech 

We're kicking off a brand-new Breakfast Together mini-series: The Four Pillars of Language Learning—starting with listening.In this episode, we chat about the listening element and its part in a language journey, about how it changes during contact with a language and the role it has played in our personal learning.☕ Grab your favourite drink and join us around the Breakfast Together table.💬 Which language do you love listening to the most, and why?

Multilingual Matt is a polyglot who creates content about languages. He has studied and spoken multiple languages, including Spanish, French, German, Polish, Arabic, and Portuguese, and his style blends humor, storytelling to show the funny and human sides of language learning.

Website:

https://flow.page/multilingual.matt

Instagram: 

https://www.instagram.com/multilingual.matt

TikTok:

https://www.tiktok.com/@multilingual.matt

YouTube:

https://m.youtube.com/c/MultilingualMatt

iTalki:

https://www.italki.com/en/i/ref/Dde0Db

Maciej, born in Warsaw, Poland, is a difficult case of a man suffering from chronic wanderlust concurrent with an acute indulgence in life lived locally. His go-to introduction labels are: “journalist,” “traveler,” “writer,” and “photographer.” He spent over a year in war-torn Ukraine, but it is Morocco, Egypt, the Middle East more broadly, and generally Southeast Asia that his wayfarer’s restless heart faithfully roams. Other incurable conditions: compulsive verbosity.        

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thehumanstory3748

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/now.here_photography 

The best way to understand Polyglot Gathering? Ask the people who were there.
In this special bonus episode, participants share their favourite moments, impressions, and the reasons they keep coming back year after year.
A huge thank you to everyone who shared their stories and helped us capture a little piece of the PG spirit .

Born and raised in a monolingual home in Madrid, Natalia’s world cracked open when she traded her journalism studies and theater rehearsals for life in Germany and Croatia. It was there she discovered a passion for languages and a deep love for Balkan culture.

A true citizen of the world with 40 countries under her belt, she now balances a career in influencer marketing at italki with her most rewarding project yet: raising her 4-year-old daughter to be a multilingual explorer. 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/natalia.moralesru?igsh=MTN4OGRlYW00d3NsOQ==

Today's episode is about the universal language, and the one thing that unites our hosts besides languages - If you've paid attention so far, you know it's our common passion for dancing!

Pedro Rodriguez, a polyglot fluent in 10 languages and the creator of the i² method, through which more than 600 people have learned numerous languages.

Professionally an engineer, and a passionate traveler, his mission is to teach in a practical and dynamic way, helping people break down language barriers and discover the world through a new lens.

Find more about Pedro and his method here:

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/languagespedro

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNoI2TzSdK7BKSAHhsUAQvQ

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." said Aristotle.
For some it's coffee, for others running, maybe studying a language or three - and for us it's definitely recording a podcast! So tune in and find out what habits our hosts have in their routine! (or lack thereof)