British Academy Summer Showcase

Linguistics activities from the Linguistics exhibit at the British Academy Summer Showcase Schools' day 2022.

Download our Avestan maths puzzle (contributed by Pavel Iosad & Graeme Trousdale, Edinburgh). If you like these kinds of puzzles, see the UK Linguistics Olympiad page.

Try your hand at documenting an endangered language here (contributed by Yuni Kim, Essex).

Test your knowledge of different writing systems in our quiz (developed by Diane Nelson, Leeds)

Take our myth busting quiz about the linguistics of language learning (developed by Florence Myles, Essex).

Find out more about the linguistics of French, Spanish or German through our interactive games (developed by Jonathan Kasstan, Westminster, Norma Schifano, Birmingham, Michelle Sheehan, Newcastle & Sascha Stollhans, Leeds)

Learn a language through culture by making a Chinese red envelope or a Welsh paper daffodil (developed by Paul Seedhouse, Newcastle, and international partners).

Test out your forensic linguistic skills by listening to this audio file and filling in this online form or downloading this forensic puzzle (contributed by Dominic Watt, York).

Take our quiz about language attitudes (developed by Amanda Cole, Essex).

Think about some questions and ideas which arise from noticing language everywhere in our daily lives (contributed by Billy Clark, Northumbria, and Laura Bailey, Kent).

Take a look at Babel the UK linguistics magazine - and pick up a free copy if you are at the event (contributed by Lesley Jeffries, Huddersfield).

Join the thriving undergraduate linguistic community of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (ULAB) and learn more about the opportunities it offers for school students, including U-Lingua Magazine and the ULAB discord channel (contributed by Tom Williamson, chair of the JoULAB advisory board).

Billy Clark, Gee Macrory, Eva Eppler, Laura Bailey and Bencie Woll representing UCGAL at the BA Summer Showcase Schools' Event