CNGL runs first ever All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad

CNGL will run the first ever CNGL All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad in the school year 2008/9. Secondary school students in transition year and 5th year from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland are invited to competete.

Many disciplines such as science, maths, creative writing, music, run competitions to find the most promising young students. Some take the form of projects or experiments, others involve composition or performance. A LINGUISTICS OLYMPIAD involves face-to-face competition where teams or individuals have to use their ingenuity, creativity and skill to solve language-related problems.

The Olympiad itself involves both individual and team competitions solving a series of logic and linguistics problems. No specialist linguistics knowledge is assumed, nor does knowledge of specific foreign languages help particularly. The individual contests involve solving four or five problems over a period of 2½ hours. The team competition, where four students work together, has more/harder problems.