hello everyone its Angela here today.
Today we are going to talk about some
misconceptions about linguistics Olympia
when I say linguistics I often get
responses like ill grammar when I say
linguistics Olympian I kept reactions
like what did you make that up
there's maths and science Olympians
what are you talking about linguistics
it is always seen as a difficult and
obscure subject and linguistics Olympiad
just seems like an out of blue
competition today we're going to break
down some misconceptions about
linguistics Olympia
firstly linguistics Olympia is not just
some random competition it is one of the
thirteen international science Olympians
for secondary students and has been held
annually since 2003 the first
linguistics Olympian originated in
Moscow in 1965 through the efforts of
many talented linguists over the years
other countries started to organize
linguistics Olympiad and eventually this
resulted in the forthcoming of the
International linguistics Olympia
known as IRL the first time L was held
in 2003 in Bulgaria and during the time
of its existence school students from
more than 40 countries had the chance to
participate secondly I need to know all
about linguistics to participate well in
this competition
well that is totally not the case like
with six Olympiad problems are self
sufficient which means it is in a
foreign language that basically no one
understands how you solve it is through
logical and analytical thinking most
importantly nor prior knowledge is
required for the Olympian everything is
given to you
the question it is beneficial for you to
understand a little about linguistics
but you can do as well if you dart
suddenly linguistics Olympiad is not
that challenging and familiar as Matson
Science Olympiad
well that annoys me so much do you have
to look at some foreign scripting
language in a Matz Olympian do you have
to analyze this language knowing nothing
about it and then translate it all
Olympians are equally challenging
linguistics Olympiad are just a
different type of limpet the fourth
point linguistics is all about language
the Olympian is all about language as
well and you'll have an advantage if you
are bilingual
well bilingual people have a lot of
ranta jiz but not in this case being
bilingual actually don't give you much
of an advantage because most of the
problems are really rare and early
several hundreds of people speak it
today so it is as equal for everyone and
as I said before the Olympian is more
about logic and decoding parts of words
and sentences rather than knowing and
then learning this language so above us
some misconceptions about linguistics
Olympian and indeed it is not just for
students who are good at languages
personally I'm more of a math student
than an English student and from my
experience serving logically for these
problems are more of an advantage for
math and science students so that's all
for today and hope you learnt something
about linguistics Olympiad and hopefully
you'll try to out soon thank you and
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