Spelling The Dream
Jun. 13th, 2020 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzy_daveLast night I watched Spelling The Dream on Netflix.
Without no acceptation of what I would expect from this documentary and what might be elided I was pleasantly engrossed in it. These spelling competitions are probably catnip to documentarians and might have been for some time, but this one takes an unusual angle by probing the question as to why Indian- American kids have been national spelling bee champions for the last 12 years. Some of the factors suggested that as Indian kids tend to be multilingual, that includes both English and Hindi as well as less know Indian languages such as Telugu, helps them to be whiz-kids (sorry for the pun) at spelling.
I also noticed that their grasp of prefixes, suffixes and the roots of words also garnered them to achieve such high degrees of vocabular heights.
Fascinating documentary though.
Without no acceptation of what I would expect from this documentary and what might be elided I was pleasantly engrossed in it. These spelling competitions are probably catnip to documentarians and might have been for some time, but this one takes an unusual angle by probing the question as to why Indian- American kids have been national spelling bee champions for the last 12 years. Some of the factors suggested that as Indian kids tend to be multilingual, that includes both English and Hindi as well as less know Indian languages such as Telugu, helps them to be whiz-kids (sorry for the pun) at spelling.
I also noticed that their grasp of prefixes, suffixes and the roots of words also garnered them to achieve such high degrees of vocabular heights.
Fascinating documentary though.
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