International Education Week
Baylor Language Olympics
2023
Dates: November 6 (9 am) - 10 (noon)
Location: Draper Academic Building 3rd floor, iMLC instagram (@baylor_imlc), FLIP
What: Baylor Language Olympics is a friendly competition among languages other than English spoken at Baylor. Languages will battle to see who can use their language the most. We will announce the winners on our social media. The French language won the gold medal last year.
Rules: You will find the daily themes or questions posted on Draper 3rd floor, iMLC instagram, and FLIP. Post your thoughts on one of the three options. Every unique submission will count as a point. The submission process is described below.
Submissions:
Draper 3rd Floor - Post your thoughts on a Post-It in the designated area on the third floor of the Draper Academic Building. Be sure to include your Baylor ID (first_last#) on your submission.
Instagram - Go to the iMLC instagram page. Locate the post of the day and comment below your response with #languagename, i.e. #spanish, #japanese. If you don't have a social media account, use FLIP seen below.
FLIP - Go to FLIP (room code: 05f70ceb). Log in using your Baylor Microsoft account (Bear ID and password). Post your response to the daily themes or questions using your audio/video.
Winners: There are three categories to win, most posted language, most posted overall, and most posted of the day. The winning prize would be:
- Most posted language - the bragging rights for a year.
- French
- Most posted of the day - mentioned in our social network.
- Esther Tong (all five days)
- Most posted overall - win a gift card.
- Esther Tong
- Winners from random post drawings
- Kaley Birchfield
- Charlie Clark
- Jonny Pense
F23 Current Standing: (updated Nov. 13. 9AM)
Arabic 8
Chinese 248
French 384
German 54
Italian 32
Japanese 261
Korean 76
Portuguese 41
Russian 82
Spanish 104
Swahili 132
Languages not offered by MLC
Afrikaans 1
Hindi 1
Malayalam 6
Ukrainian 2
Vietnamese 5
Last Language Standing
2022
Dates: November 7 (9 am) - 11 (noon)
Location: Draper Academic Building, 3rd floor
What - Last Language Standing (LLS) is a competition among languages other than English spoken at Baylor. Languages will battle to see who can use their language the most. We will announce the winners on our social media.
For 2022, we encourage everyone to post their thoughts on Post-It on the third floor of Draper. We will provide the daily theme, or you can post anything you want to discuss in written or spoken form.
Rules - You will find the daily theme. Post your thoughts on the "Post-It" provided or record it using your device. The submission process is described below. You can also post something in the general non-theme area.
Submissions - Post your thoughts on Post-It in the designated area on the third floor of the Draper Academic Building. That's it. You will be entered for a drawing.
For audio submission, there are a few ways to enter. But once you enter, we will post a QR code to your audio and post it along all text entries.
- You can park your audio in your cloud and share the public link to iMLC@baylor.edu.
- You can send your audio via email to iMLC@baylor.edu.
- You can post your audio on social media and send iMLC@baylor.edu your social media link.
Winners: There are three categories to win, most posted language, most posted overall, and most posted of the day. The winning prize would be:
- Most posted language - the bragging rights for a year.
- Most posted of the day - mentioned in our social network.
- Most posted overall - win a gift card.
- Winners from random post drawings
RESULTS
We had 550 posts in this week-long event. The final post count is seen below. Congratulations to the French language for winning the most posted language category.
French 180
Chinese 91
German 75
Italian 60
Japanese 57
Spanish 37
Arabic 33
Portuguese 8
Russian 3
Korean 2
Hindi 2
Igbo 1
Tagalog 1
The most posted individual award goes to Aaliya Mai, who posted 24 posts in French and German.
2021
Dates: November 8 (8 am) - 10 (11:59 pm), 2021
Location: TikTok
WHAT - Last Language Standing (LLS) is a competition among the languages taught at Baylor. Language teams will battle to see who can keep their language in use the longest. This is a part of the International Education Week event.
LLS Tick-Tok Edition is a special competition designed since fall 2020. Each language will compete in TikTok to get the most views, likes, and posts. You can post any category of video.
Rules - Post TikToks in your language! Each post must contain 30 seconds or more of the target language spoken. Must use hashtags #IMLCF21 and #language (replace “language” with your target language, like #arabic or #chinese) You can post THREE TikTok a day.
Who can participate? - Students, faculty, staff, and alumni of Baylor University can participate.
Winning Categories - All winners will be announced on the iMLC website and on our social network posts.
- Most Posts - this is a team (language) award - The language that receives the most posts wins.
- Most Single-Post Likes - this is an individual award - the participants who gets most likes by Wed. 11/17/2021 @ 5 pm wins! (gets a gift card - will be contacted via DM.)
- Most Single-Post Views - this is also an individual award - the participant who gets the most view by Wed. 11/17/2021 at 5pm wins! (gets a gift card - will be contacted via DM.)
2020
Dates: November 9 (8am) - 11 (5pm), 2020
Location: TikTok
WHAT - Last Language Standing (LLS) is a competition among the languages taught at Baylor. Language teams will battle to see who can keep their language in use the longest. This is a part of the International Education Week event.
LLS Tick-Tok Edition is a special competition designed for fall 2020. Each language will compete in TikTok to get the most views, likes, and posts. You can post any category of video.
Rules - Post TikToks in your language! Each post must contain 30 seconds or more of the target language spoken. Must use hashtags #IMLCF20 and #language (replace “language” with your target language, like #arabic or #chinese) You can post one TikTok a day.
Winning Categories - All winners will be announced on the iMLC website and on our social network posts.
- Most Posts - this is a team (language) award - The language that receives the most posts wins.
- Most Single-Post Likes - this is an individual award - the person who gets most like by Wed. 11/18 @ 5pm wins! (gets a gift card - will be contacted via DM.)
- Most Single-Post Views - this is also an individual award - the student who gets the most view by Wed. 11/18 at 5pm wins! (gets a gift card - will be contacted via DM.)
LLS 2019
Date: November 21, 2019
Time: 5:30-7:30 pm
Location: Draper 356, IMLC
IMLC's Last Language Standing is an endurance race of speaking languages taught within the Department of Modern Languages & Cultures. You speak English, you are out! We invite all speakers and learners of these languages from Baylor. We also invite students to come to find your next language(s) to study. Each language group can play games, sing Karaoke, make crafts, or just gather and chat. Join us for a fun evening.
Prizes for the winning teams!
RESULTS
ALL TEAMS WON! They all spoke nothing but their target language for two hours!!!!
Thank you for participating - Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, & Spanish!
