Umesh,
Not really. These children were born and raised in the USA. They do not know many languages.
The real truth is parental influence. Sometime in the last thirty years, it became a fashion and passion in the Indian community to take Spelling Bee seriously, mainly by word of mouth. Many children and their parents practice together, using published material for the event. With serious practice, the children start seeing the pattern of spelling, even in words they do not know the meaning of. It is fun to watch when the parent calls out a word with his/her Indian way of pronouncing, the child spells it wrong and then the child blames the mistake on the pronunciation.
Dilipda
umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
surprising that all 4 toppers were Indians. Could be because we have so many languages so that we learn to make relation between words across languages --and get a feel about etymology etc.Umesh
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