Younger Indians tend to be good at spelling

Indian student in spelling championship

Dubai: Spelling champions in the UAE are becoming younger and younger and they have one thing in common — they’re of Indian origin just like in spelling competitions in the US.

This year’s UAE Champion is an eighth grader while the second runner-up is a seventh grader, beating 10th graders in the competition.

“I’ve seen the students grow in terms of how they approach spelling over the past three years. We had to exhaust a lot of the out-of-list words. The study list is easy for them and we exhausted those. And then we went out of the list. And even those, there were a lot of words that they got,” Mirle Shivshankar, a US-based Indian-American spelling coach and judge at the third Danube Spelling Bee Champion, told Gulf News.

Shivshankar is the father of Kavya, the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion in the US who visited Dubai on Saturday to be the ‘pronouncer’ of the words at the event.

In recent years, Indian-Americans have dominated the national competition in the States and a similar trend is being noticed in the UAE.

Renuka Singh, managing director of Exquity Events, which organises the spelling competition in the UAE, said it could be because Indians, by nature, are multi-lingual.

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