Are you interested in languages? Do you like puzzles?
Then join our Linguistics Club in St. Kilian’s. This academic year the Linguistics Club will be meeting on Thursday for students of 7th class, 8th and 9th class on Thursday at lunchtime and for TY and Senior students after school in E23. We invite everybody to participate. You only need an interest in languages, their development and structure, and some logical thinking.
The Linguistics Club in St Kilians was established in 2009 for Junior and Senior Students. We solve puzzles in languages we don’t know! Some of the languages can be well known languages like Basque or much less well known languages such as Manam, an Austronesian language. Our aim is to participate in the All-Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO) and finally in the International Linguistics Olympiad (ILO) which are held every year in a different country. Every participating country sends 4 students to the ILO. Ireland has taken part in the competition since 2009 and one of our students, Imogen Grumley Traynor, has represented our country twice, first in 2010 and then in 2012! Last school year Norbert Rebow (11th class) and Jake Smith (12th class) managed to place in the top 100 out of 700 students in the First Round of the All-Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO) and have qualified for the Final Round in Trinity College Dublin on 24th March 2014.
This year’s Linguistics Club will be a good fun too! We are looking forward to it!
