ESL Students Can Excel In Spelling Bee Too
Like any spelling bee, this was a competition filled with drama, prickly nerves and a desire to outdo the rest. But Grigori Drobot, who arrived a nervous wreck, with engineer dad Konstantin and classmates like Alli Salimyha and Aram Kim cheering him on, was no ordinary speller. Salimyha is 40, a restaurateur from Iran. Kim is 25, a law student from Korea. And Drobot is 19, one of the youngest competitors in Toronto’s inaugural Adult ESL Spelling Competition, the first level of which was held Thursday night. Drobot, who came from Belarus seven months ago, was one of 31 contestants from English as a Second Language learning centres across the city. They’d spent weeks studying vocabulary lists prepared by organizer Channah Cohen.
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