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Spelling bees as they are maybe wouldn't, but there's a concept of dictation (dictées) where students transcribe the text read by the teacher. It's used not onl
by duckmysick 7y ago
Spelling bees as they are maybe wouldn't, but there's a concept of dictation (dictées) where students transcribe the text read by the teacher. It's used not only as a graded exercise in schools, but there are entire competitions built around it. I spoke with my colleagues about it and the dictations are popular in France and Belgium. Wikipedia mentions Canada, Poland, and Switzerland too.
- toyg 7y agoDictation is (or was) used in Italy in primary school, but it becomes trivial very quickly - because pronounciation is very, very regular in that language.
- bonzini 7y agoIndeed, in Italy kids only do dictation for two-three years.
- yoran 7y agoThere used to be a yearly televised national dictation in Holland[1], but they stopped after 2017 because not enough people were watching anymore. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Dictation_of_the_Dutch_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Dictation_of_the_Dutch_L...
- viraptor 7y agoIn Polish that concept exists only because it has letters with same sounds: h/ch, u/ó, ż/rz. It's mostly for kids at school, because after a while you just remember which letter to use in most words and the rest you guess from similarities / changing the form. I've never heard of a competition around it, and the concept is rather silly for adults. (Yes, there is (was?) an annual national dictation, but it's done for fun)