Slavic Cultures and Languages

Hello!, 你好!, नमस्ते!, ¡Hola!, مرحباً!, Olá!, Bonjour!, Привет!, こんにちは!, ہیلو!, ሰላም!, สวัสดี!, Xin chào!, ہائے!, Halo! 1. **Practice, exchange** and **learn ANY language** 2. **Explore world's cultures** and **travel tips** 3. **Your NAMETAG:** get it at our Welcome Desk, add: **Languages you speak \| Languages you're learning** **WHERE:** frontside **'Central Bar'** inside **Royal Festival Hall**. At High tables. Can't find us?: 078 76 800 100. **CULTURES:** share your favorite Instagram culture videos **TRAVEL**: show your favorite moments, past travels, or next adventures. Sharing is caring. **PEOPLE:** A mix of locals and internationals. **LANGUAGES:** All ages and proficiency levels welcome **UP FOR DANCE?** There's a FREE Salsa event happening n parallel **HUNGRY?** Pop to World Cuisines Food Market behind Festival Hall **MOTTO:** Meet new people, connect and make friends FREE language learning. FREE culture exchange. FREE salsa. Just bring yourself and good vibes **Want to Co-Organise?** Volunteer co-organisers welcome to Help with Nametags. Ping us

Hello!, 你好!, नमस्ते!, こんにちは! ¡Hola!, مرحباً!, Olá!, Bonjour!, Привет!, , ہیلو!, ሰላም!, สวัสดี!, Xin chào!, ہائے!, Halo! 1. **Practice, exchange** and **learn ANY language** 2. **Explore world's cultures** and **travel tips** 3. **Your NAMETAG:** get it at our Welcome Desk, add: **Languages you speak \| Languages you're learning** **WHERE:** frontside **'Central Bar'** inside **Royal Festival Hall**. At High tables. Can't find us?: 078 76 800 100. **CULTURES:** share your favorite Instagram culture videos **TRAVEL**: show your favorite moments, past travels, or next adventures. Sharing is caring. **PEOPLE:** Mix of internationals and locals. All ages **LANGUAGES:** All ages and proficiency levels welcome **WANNA DANCE?** There's a FREE Salsa event happening in parallel **HUNGRY?** Pop to World Cuisines Food Market behind Festival Hall **MOTTO:** Meet new people, connect and make friends FREE language learning. FREE culture exchange. FREE salsa. Just bring yourself and good vibes **Want to Co-Organise?** Volunteer co-organisers welcome to Help with Nametags. Ping us

PLEASE READ the event information 👇 **You must have a confirmation to** **attend this event** **Welcome** to the Highest Rated International Language Exchange group in London🏆 with 1600+ reviews rated 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Join us every **Friday** for our weekend global language exchange and social 😊🍻🥂 **TO ATTEND THIS EVENT...** 🔘 BEFORE buying your drinks, collect & wear your badge as soon as you arrive 🔘 Have your Meetup confirmation visible on your phone. 🔘Pay the £2 event fee. The event starts at 7pm. **The event fee is £6 if you arrive after 8:30pm** Start meeting the community and having fun...lots of fun! [www.languages.london](www.languages.london) 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇫🇷🇯🇵🇮🇹🇩🇪🇮🇳🇨🇳🇧🇷🇰🇷🇪🇬🇭🇰🇺🇸🇨🇴🇺🇦🇹🇷🇷🇺🇦🇺 **WHEN & WHERE** **The fun** starts at 7pm. We're returning to The Craft Beer Co, St Mary Axe.** **Address: 29-31 Mitre Street, London, EC3A 5BU** [https://maps.app.goo.gl/49HnHGap8hQMbQNWA](https://maps.app.goo.gl/49HnHGap8hQMbQNWA) **HOW WE DO IT** It's simple .... ▶️When you arrive please collect your personalised language badge from us. We'll be waiting to give you a warm welcome 😃 ▶️Wear your badge during the event and always return it before you leave ♻️ ▶️You're expected to buy something from the bar to support the venue, who kindly offer us a dedicated space. 🇵🇱🇹🇼🇲🇽🇻🇳🇧🇬🇵🇸🇸🇪🇮🇱🇨🇦🇳🇱🇿🇦🇭🇺🇹🇭🇵🇪🇧🇴🇳🇬🇳🇿🇨🇭 **WHO** Languages in London events are organised for our community - being social, making new friends, building cultural bridges and always very relaxed. We have the largest number of languages and countries represented in our weekly language exchange and social events in London. This is** not **a dating event. Our events are open to Internationals, Locals, Expats, Students, Travellers...Everyone! Are you an 18 to 24 year old? Come and explore our events. Our events are for a truly global community and citizens from around the 🌎 It's your international language hub in London 💂 Is this the Intercambio you've been looking for? Want to practice your ingles, espanol , francais, italiano, Deutsch, portugues or other European languages? Asian languages ? Or maybe prefer to only speak English.... that's just fine. **All languages and all fluency levels are welcome **Spread the word...Bring your friends, colleagues and family 💚 The creator and organiser of** Languages in London - Girish**, will always be visible at the event and there to support you and help with introductions, if you prefer. We want to remain the BEST language events group in London, being the biggest isn't our focus. These are real events with real people. We don't fill our events with inflated numbers and fictitious attendees 👻 **Inactive community members and those that "no-show" at our events are regularly removed from our group.** **LANGUAGES** Here's a selection of some of the languages that our community speak or have been practicing ... English, Spanish (incl Latin American), French, Italian, Portuguese (incl Brazilian), German, Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin & Cantonese), Russian, Korean, Hindi, Turkish, Arabic, Ukrainian, Polish, Hebrew, Swedish, Bulgarian, Vietnamese, Hungarian, Bengali, Dutch, Catalan, Farsi, Greek, Urdu, Welsh, Romanian, Norwegian, Czech, Slovakian, Estonian, Danish, Finnish, Turkmen, Latvian, Lithuanian, Nepali, Yoruba, Filipino, Thai, Albanian, Croatian, Serbian, Ebo, Afrikaans, Tamazight, Tagalog, Creole, Malagasy, Mongolian, Tok Pisin and more... you get the idea! 🇷🇴🇬🇹🇨🇿🇳🇴🇩🇰🇫🇮🇨🇾🇺🇾🇪🇬🇧🇬🇦🇷🇰🇪🇱🇰🇲🇦🇹🇳🇩🇿🇸🇬🇲🇾 **SUSTAINABLE **🌎🌳 Like you, we really care about our planet. We don't like single use paper name tags, stickers or wristbands as they can't be reused or recycled and can even damage your clothing ☹️ The Solution? Our personalised and completely reusable Languages in London badges! 👍 So, please make sure you return your badge to us, before you leave the event. We'll sanitise it (anti bacterial & disinfectant cleaners) and use it again & again & again. Thanks for helping us do the right thing and keep our costs down🙏 **SAFE SPACE FOR EVERYONE **👮‍♂️ We don't tolerate prejudice or harassment of any kind, at any time. Be polite and respectful to everyone else and they will reciprocate. Let's keep the space safe, welcoming for everyone and free of any political agendas. Please report any concerns to the Organiser immediately. Please look after your belongings, the venue is a public place. We may take photos or video at the event for future promotional use. Let us know if you'd rather not be included, we respect your choice 📸 **SPREAD THE WORD **🗣️💬** If you enjoy our events, please tell your friends and colleagues and help us grow your **community, thank you 💚 Join our community - [https://www.languages.london/](https://www.languages.london/) We're looking forward to welcoming you at Languages in London 😊👋 🇲🇰🇳🇵🇧🇩🇵🇭🇦🇪🇦🇱🇧🇪🇮🇪🇰🇿🇱🇦🇯🇴🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪🇰🇭🇨🇱🇲🇳🇨🇺

Speakers of English and Korean unite! Language exchange focused meetup at a pub venue in a very central London location. For a map of the location, see the website of the bar linked in the venue details given here. People at any level of Korean (and English) are welcome at this Meetup. Complete beginners wanting to explore learning Korean also welcome. Participants come from the UK, Korea and many other countries. This will be an opportunity to informally study and practice Korean and/or English, and help others with their Korean and/or English in return. It is also a good chance to chat to others with interests in and links to Korea. We'd also be very grateful if attendees could buy at least one drink (soft/alcoholic) at the bar to ensure that we continue to be welcomed at this venue. We look forward to seeing you all there, **To avoid disappointment, please book your place before you come.** About this Meetup Group (http://korean.meetup.com/142/about/)

**FREE TO MEMBERS - SIGN UP WHEN YOU ARRIVE!** English Conversation Class in Soho Intermediate and Advanced speakers only - Free admission Any questions ask Richard at 7563 995821

**Join LCC Sunday, March 8th at the Hackney Marshes playing field as we make another attempt at playing the Soviet Union's very own *Zarnitsa,* a capture-the-flag alternative with a small twist.** **WHAT IS ZARNITSA?** Zarnitsa (Зарница), or heat-lightning, officially known as the All-Union Young Pioneer military sports game "Zarnitsa", is a massive multi-player physical sports game developed and practiced by the Young Pioneers communist youth organisation during the Soviet era. The game provides a simulation of military actions such as reconnaissance, co-ordinated offensives, giving chase, etc. Popular once again in modern Russia, this is a simple game designed for children and young people in military/cadet organisations, but great fun for active people of all ages. The rules of Zarnitsa are based on the classic capture the flag concept. Two teams each have a "base area" with a flag contained within, concealed or otherwise. Each team's goal is to protect their own flag and seize the other team's and bring it back to the base area. Players can walk, run, sneak, hide, create diversions and use any means short of physical violence to achieve their objectives. What makes Zarnitsa different from classic CTF is simply this: every player has two velcro-attached shoulder straps that serve as health indicators and can be torn off by the opponents. Losing one indicates "wounded", losing two indicates "dead". The "wounded" players cannot run and should only walk. The "dead" players return to a respawn point or leave the game in some modes. Why are we doing this? Capture the flag is simply top fun and anyone who says otherwise is joking themselves. Zarnitsa's slightly elevated level of complexity should give us just that extra challenge needed to really make it interesting. That said, this is our first go with organising multiplayer sports games, so we'll see what the results are! As always comments, questions, suggestions and concerns are more than welcome - just contact an organiser. Sports games are a great way to get and stay active, meet new people, and break the monotony of everyday life under British capitalism. Let's get out there! For our first attempt at organising a little Zarnitsa league here in London, we'll hit up Hackney Marshes and Wick Woodland. We'll divide into two teams; each will receive coloured vests or other garments to which the health indicator strips are attached. Then we'll take up our places, count down from 60 seconds, and let the games begin! **Note: we'll want at least five people per team for this to really work right, so we'll cancel or reschedule if this one gets less than 9 RSVPs.** There's no limit to how big our group can be of course, so please do join us! Just be sure to either turn up on the day or change your RSVP if you can't make it in the end, just so we know what to expect. Take care and see you on the pitch!

Привет всем! Наша следующая гольф встреча состоится, в субботу 16 мая, в 16:00. Мы встречаемся на ресепшене в Greenwich Peninsula Driving Range - North Greenwich. Формат игры - играем в гольф мини игры, организуем мини-турниры и разыгрываем приз лучшему игроку или команде дня. Приводите своих друзей - отличный способ пообщаться в неформальной атмосфере в послеигровом спортивном пабе:) Чтобы подтвердить своё участие, пожалуйста, зарегистрируйтесь и подтвердите своё участие здесь до четверга, 14 мая, 16:00. После этого мы подтвердим количество участников и добавим вас в список команд в день игры. Вы можете присоединиться к нашей Whatsapp группе, там будут публиковаться список команд на день и другая информация - если вы еще не разу играли с нами. https://chat.whatsapp.com/Fv5pCAtqzc2Eu47iFc1AwQ?mode=gi_t Взнос за бронирование — 20 фунтов стерлингов с человека, оплачивается после присоединения к группе WhatsApp. Обратите внимание, что некоторые участники уже имели возможность потренироваться с нами в гольфе вне этого мероприятия, поэтому будьте готовы встретить как новичков, так и опытных игроков. Важно: все, кто присоединяется в день игры, должны оплатить взнос за бронирование заранее, после присоединения к группе WhatsApp, чтобы закрепить своё место и уменьшить неявки. Вы можете отменить своё участие за 48 часов до запланированного времени игры.

Let's grab some coffee/food and share a morning chat! The East Market has an ample parking lot and outdoor and indoor seating. Grab a cup of coffee from Winston's Coffee & Waffles or on your way to East Market and meet us on the second floor - table behind or east of the elevator. Per what this group is about: "Everyone is welcome! International transplants to Columbus who want to improve language skills, Columbus residents who enjoy talking to people from other countries, and those who would like to discuss international travel and culture, and who enjoy getting together for good conversations."

We meet to learn and practice American Sign Language and to grow our familiarity with Deaf culture. Facilitated by hearing folks (with a connection to a professional interpreter) using Deaf-created content. People of all ASL skill levels are welcome! As we learn, we hope to connect more with the Deaf community in Central Ohio. Join us as you're able! Come regularly or just once - whatever you're looking for! Each meetup will explore different topics related to ASL/Deaf culture, and will feature time to practice conversation with one another. Just bring yourself and a willingness to learn!

**Important time note:** Please plan on arriving between 5:30 and 6:00 as the elevators lock after 6 and you'll need to message us and we'll need to come get you. The building address is 4450 Bridge Park The entrance is 6620 Mooney St, Suite 400 You will need to scan your ID at the door to get a visitor badge. **Abstract** TBD **YouTube Link** TBD

Hey Everyone! Let's meet at Belle's Bread Bakery and Cafe. There is lots of free parking and easy access to the cafe and many shops and restaurants as well. This is a great way to meet new and old friends while chatting about life and practicing English language speaking skills. All are welcome and encouraged to join us anytime between 11am and 1pm. Looking forward to seeing you soon.

This year's Eurovision Song Contest is being held in Vienna, Austria, and the finals are scheduled for 16 May 2026. The [Scandinavian Club of Columbus](https://www.scandiclub.com/) will be co-hosting a viewing party for the final event in conjunction with Germania and the [Columbus Maennerchor](https://www.maennerchor.com/). The delayed televised viewing will take place at the Germania. The program will start around 2:00 p.m. and the singing will **start around 3:00 p.m**. There will be a **cash bar**, and those in attendance can **bring food or snacks** for themselves and or to share with the groups. **Suggested donation: $10/person** to help cover the cost of the venue.

The aim of this group is to get together and practice our German. Doesn’t matter if are a beginner or a native speaker. The goal is to speak and improve our German. Everyone is welcome! If the weather is good, look for us in the Biergarten. Pro Tip: Get there before 6:00 for happy hour pricing.

**Improving Office in Franklinton** Physical location: Improving Office 330 Rush Alley Suite #150 Columbus, OH 43215 Schedule: 6:00 p.m.: Socialize, eat, and drink. Improving will be providing pizza and beverages. 6:30 to 8:00 pm. Main meeting and presentation(s). Topic: This month John Lairson will share a notebook describing the Alpaca (Paper) Trading API and discuss different algorithms for evaluating stock trades. We meet on the last Monday of each Month. Presentations are given by members and friends of this group. If you would like to do a presentation (small or large) on a python topic, please contact Central OH Python at centralohpython@gmail.com