1. The first ten years Neil Sheldon

2. Three rounds of competition
4 levels, catering for everyone.
Top performers go through to ...
Round 2
Used to select the team(s) for ...
International Linguistics Olympiad

3. UK Round 1 total entries

4. Round 1: the levels
Breakthrough
Foundation
Intermediate
Advanced

5. Round 1: the levels Breakthrough Targeted at KS2-3
Foundation Targeted at KS3-4
Intermediate Targeted at KS4
Advanced Targeted at KS5

6. Round 1: the levels Breakthrough Targeted at KS2-3 Problems 1-3
Foundation Targeted at KS Problems 2-5
Intermediate Targeted at KS4 Problems 4-7
Advanced Targeted at KS5 Problems 6-10

7. Round 1: the levels Breakthrough Flexible examination arrangements
Marked in schools by teachers
Foundation Flexible examination arrangements
Intermediate Flexible examination arrangements
Advanced Normal examination invigilation
Marked externally
Determines selection for Round 2

8. Round 1 entries by school sector

9. Round 1 entries, male vs female

10. Round 2 The top 16 (sometimes 17 or 18) candidates from Round 1
Residential weekend (Friday evening to Sunday mid- day) at a university
Linguistics lecture on Friday evening (given by a member of staff at the host university)
Tuition all day Saturday (given by UKLO tutors)
Round 2 paper on Sunday morning
The best 4 (or 8) make up the team(s) for the IOL

11. Round 2 locations Sheffield University Edinburgh University
York University
St Mary’s University College
Liverpool Hope University
Somerville College, Oxford
Huddersfield University
Trinity College, Cambridge
Reading University

12. at the

13. at the in numbers 10 Olympiads 60 competitors 15 teams
27 individual contest medals (10 gold, 6 silver, 11 bronze)
12 honourable mentions
3 best solutions
3 team contest trophies (1 gold, 2 bronze)
1 first place team trophy
4 repeat medallists (including a 3 × gold and a 4 × gold)
2 dream teams

14. at the in places 2009 Wrocław (1 team) 2010 Stockholm (2)
Pittsburgh (1)
Ljubljana (1)
Manchester (2)
Beijing (1)
Blagoevgrad (2)
Mysore (1)
Dublin (2)
Prague (2)

15. A typical week
Sunday arrivals Monday opening ceremony Tuesday individual contest, 6 hours Wednesday excursions Thursday team contest, 3 or 4 hours Friday solutions, prizes and closing ceremony Saturday departures

16. at the in places
Yongin (Korea)

17. at the in medals

18. at the IOL, Olympic scoring

19. at the Hall of fame 2014 our first gold medal Ellie Warner
Ellie has just finished her degree in Linguistics at Cambridge
− and she has now been recruited to the Jury at the IOL

20. at the IOL: Hall of fame
2014 our first gold medal
Ellie Warner

21. at the IOL: Hall of fame Sam Ahmed Triple gold medal winner
2015, 2016, 2017
Sam’s medal in 2017 was the
top gold in the competition
Sam is now at Cambridge reading
linguistics − and he is a member
of the Jury at the IOL

22. at the IOL: Hall of fame Liam McKnight Quadruple gold medal winner
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Liam is about to start at Cambridge,
reading linguistics

23. at the IOL: Hall of fame World champions 2017
Alfie Ben Simi Ben Kamran Harry Sam Liam
Vaughan Liow Hellsten Morris Sharifi Taylor Ahmed McKnight

24. The Rosetta Disk – wearable version
One side has instructions in eight different languages and scripts (Bahasa Indonesia, English, Hindi, Mandarin, Modern Standard Arabic, Spanish, Swahili, and Russian). The instructions translate into English as "Languages of the world: This is an archive of over 1,000 human languages assembled in the year C.E. Magnify 100 times to find over 1,000 pages of language documentation." Each instruction starts at a human-eye readable size, and then spirals inward around a globe graphic, ending at the microscopic scale.

25. And coming up later …
Benedict Randall Shaw Gold medal winner 2018 Westminster School
Sarah O’Keeffe
IOL contestant 2010
City of London Girls

26. The first ten years Neil Sheldon