How to Use a Linguistics Olympiad Training Guide Without Skipping Problems
Stop reading linguistics guides passively. Learn the solve-first protocol to turn a training guide into an active gap-filling tool for IOLC preparation.
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24 Jul 2026
24 Jul 2026
Poetry, Metre and Rhyme Problems at the Linguistics Olympiad: How to Scan a Language You've Never Seen
Verse problems ask you to reconstruct the rules of poetry in an unknown language. Learn to scan metre, rhyme and parallelism with a repeatable method and worked examples.
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22 Jul 2026
22 Jul 2026
The Linguistics Olympiad Concepts Toolkit: 12 Grammar Ideas That Unlock Hard Problems
Stop solving IOL problems at random. These 12 recurring grammar ideas — from vowel harmony to ergative alignment — unlock a huge share of hard problems once you can name them.
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20 Jul 2026
20 Jul 2026
Sign-Language Problems at the Linguistics Olympiad: How to Decode a Puzzle Type Most Students Never Practise
Sign-language problems scare students because they look nothing like translation puzzles. Learn the five sign parameters and a repeatable decoding method, with worked examples.
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29 Jun 2026
29 Jun 2026
IOL Past Problems: The Free Practice Pack & a Proven Way to Use Them (2026)
The free IOL past-problems pack — problems organised by type, with worked solutions for many years — plus the four-step method that turns a stack of past papers into real solving skill. What is in it and how to use it.