Spelling Bees Buzz in Spanish Too!

Fri01Jun2007

Spelling Bees Buzz in Spanish Too!

11:14 H | Topics: Bilingualism - Education - Events - Language - New York City

The national buzz (excuse the pun) may be about the 80th Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee and its 13 year old champion Evan O‘Dorney but as I write this, words like j-u-a-n-e-t-e are making champions out of school children. That's because Scholastic Inc. is holding the 2007 NYC Spanish Spelling Bee (El Certamen de
Deletreo en Español de la Ciudad de Nueva York) in its auditorium and NY1 Noticias is airing the competition live. Regional champs in grades 4, 5 and 6 compete within their own grade. So far the winners have been fourth grader Richard Torrenegra with "juanete" and fifth grader Jhonny Herredia Marmol with "autobús".

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1. kelly ~ Friday, Jun 01 2007 | 21:57H:

I watched the Bee last night. I thought that it was cool that zacate showed up as one of the words. The poor girl who got the word though didn't get the correct help from the judges though. She asked for alternate pronunciations several times and was given poor examples both times. (zuh/caw/tee) It is no wonder that she misspelled it. z-o-c-a-t-e

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