Polyglot coffee

The polyglot tables are tables, generally located in a Café, around whose assoient themselves people come to speak one or more Langue S foreign.

There exist coffees Polyglotte S in various cities. The access terms vary according to the places. A constant is nevertheless present everywhere: the same language is spoken by the people who gather around a table. It will be about the language which will have been allotted in an explicit or implicit way to the table. These meetings of people interested by the foreign languages are done with an aim of creating bonds between people speaking the same languages and sometimes between native speakers and also with an aim of allowing whoever would be interested to come to practice the language which he appreciates.

The polyglot Circle of Brussels

The concept of coffee polyglot would have been born with Brussels in November 1956. The polyglot Cercle of Brussels is a Non-profit-making association. He was a sharp success in the Fifties, years during which were held of the sessions of only one language in alternation each evening of the week. The access is paying there: being organized in association, the circle requires an annual contribution of its members.

Polyglot coffee of Lille

The polyglot tables began with Lille in 2000 under the impulse from a Belgian translator, Fabien Vandekerkove, which had just settled in the city after having lived in Brussels and to have attended the polyglot Circle of which he was member in 1992.

It is with the assistance of a friend, German professor of , that it decided to create this weekly meeting which very quickly gained a sharp success grace in particular to the weekly magazine Sortir , newspaper of the spectacles and cultural events of the metropolis inhabitant of Lille and in other press articles which appear regularly in varied publication, like, for example, the newspaper the Cross , the magazine Marie Claire or even the Voice of North , famous daily newspaper regional.

The polyglot tables settled with the Café of Paris , in full downtown area of Lille, in the street of Paris by behind the Town square, a little by chance. The owner of the coffee having accepted the partnership immediately, the things were held very quickly.

With the difference of the circle of Brussels, the polyglot coffee of Lille does not have a statute of association. It is about an association of people which is not declared in prefecture. The reason with that is the lack of time as well as the lack of interest carried to the officialization of statutes. The weekly event remains abstract and remains a circle with the free access and opened with all, without contribution.

The polyglot coffee of Lille is held, according to the advertisements in the press and the poster stuck on the panes of the coffee of Paris, every Wednesday evenings starting from 19:30. The time slot of multitude is located between 21:00 and 22:00. It is possible to speak in Spanish, English, Russian, Italian and some time even the language of the signs!

Consumption is free, in semi-official agreement with the owner of the coffee. The interested people can thus enter and freely leave without being obliged to consume.

Polyglot coffee in Aix-en-Provence

With Aix-en-Provence a polyglot coffee is held each Thursday evening with the coffee the Festival . It causes a certain success in particular near the students (in particular foreign students).

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