Recently I had a talk with my Indian friend who had moved to Czech Republic a while back. [2 years to be specific]↵
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He seems to have a great interest in Informatics Olympiad but as the task statements in the preliminary rounds are solely in Czech [and as he is not familiar with the language for some obvious reasons] he is not allowed to take part in the olympiad.↵
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most of you guys might be thinking of a one obvious response by him, to mail them for the translation in English.↵
But here's the catch, They literally refused to translate the problem statement with an absurd reason "the extra effort wouldn't be justified"↵
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I don't believe that Czech is an easy language to get fluent at within 4 years when you have to prepare for the olympiad on the side.↵
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it's just not IOI, every competition the Czech republic participates in, IOI, IMO etc, all of their selection rounds are in Czech↵
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He kept emailing them but they just stuck with the statement that they are not going to translate the problem statement.↵
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so yeah, just wanted to let the community know about this situation and would love to hear ur guys experience too.
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He seems to have a great interest in Informatics Olympiad but as the task statements in the preliminary rounds are solely in Czech [and as he is not familiar with the language for some obvious reasons] he is not allowed to take part in the olympiad.↵
↵
most of you guys might be thinking of a one obvious response by him, to mail them for the translation in English.↵
But here's the catch, They literally refused to translate the problem statement with an absurd reason "the extra effort wouldn't be justified"↵
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I don't believe that Czech is an easy language to get fluent at within 4 years when you have to prepare for the olympiad on the side.↵
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it's just not IOI, every competition the Czech republic participates in, IOI, IMO etc, all of their selection rounds are in Czech↵
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He kept emailing them but they just stuck with the statement that they are not going to translate the problem statement.↵
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so yeah, just wanted to let the community know about this situation and would love to hear ur guys experience too.
