Chinanews, June 18, according to the US "Overseas News" report, Sophia Lin (Sophia Lin), a Chinese student from Orange County, Southern California, held an online Spelling Bee (Scripps National Spelling Bee) on the 16th. ) Lost in the semi-finals and ranked 43rd in the country.
In an interview, she talked about reading interest and spelling skills.
Sofia, now 13, has been an avid reader since she was a child, and soon became friends with the school librarian and received more and more book recommendations.
"I like reading. I use reading to prepare for competitions. My favorite book is fantasy/adventure."
Sophia said he was proud to represent the Chinese community in the National Spelling Competition.
Your own spelling strategy is to try to imagine the picture of the word in your mind to see if it is spelled correctly.
"My parents encourage me to study, but they don't train me. My 8th grade English teacher assigned us homework and let us practice vocabulary for 15 minutes through online courses at least 3 days a week."
She continued: "Learning new words is very exciting, so I always learn more words. I learn more new words than the teacher gave me, so that I can absorb more new words. This helps I have built a strong vocabulary knowledge. I have always enjoyed reading since I was very young, which helps me recognize many words and learn words from context."
Sophia first participated in the spelling bee in the 7th grade.
Started with the school’s spelling contest, and then represented the school in the Orange County contest.
Entering the 8th grade this year, I participated in the online competition.
She was able to represent her school in the Orange County spelling contest, and then she tied for first place with her classmates.
The Spelling Bee organization then asked her to represent Orange County.
This is the first time she can go this far in the National Spelling Competition.
I am very happy to be able to enter the semi-finals through the preliminaries, and believe that the experience of participating in Spelling Bee during the epidemic will be unforgettable for her.
Both Sofia's mother and grandparents immigrated from China. Sofia is a Chinese born in the United States and speaks English and Mandarin Chinese at home.
Sophia’s father revealed that Sophia is good at speaking Mandarin Chinese.
Sophia’s father said: “We work with the children to deepen the knowledge they have learned in school and encourage them to take additional courses in math, science and computer coding outside of school. They also learn music and dance.”
Because Sophia loves to read, as a parent, she doesn't have to encourage Sophia to spell too much. She likes to play vocabulary games set by school and has a good memory. "We just encourage her to have the opportunity to continue. We are also used to using vocabulary cards when riding in the car. We used to wait in line when taking them to Disneyland, and even encouraged her to read books in long lines." (Li Qingwei)