Bilingual bee: Spelling is so fun they do it twice - asked to spell words in Spanish, including the accent marks. They then had to translate the word and spell it in English. - Houston

Posted on: June 2nd, 2008
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“It had all the lip-biting drama of a traditional spelling bee, but with a major dose of español.

As if spelling obscure, multisyllabic words in a single language wasn’t difficult enough, 25 students from schools in Houston and Mexico competed Saturday in a bilingual spelling bee.

That’s right: English and Spanish.”*

*From: http://www.chron.com
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