The Spelling Bee Isn't Just About Memorization - Cheddar Explains
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- As the Scripps National Spelling Bee approaches, only one thing is for sure: 568 kids will take the final stage and 1 person will come out the champion with the trophy, the title and $50,000. Cheddar explains what goes on inside the mind of a national spelling bee champion and why it's more than just memorization.
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they used the iridocyclitis kid for clickbait lmao
did you look that spelling up
@@julieguldchristensen5836 nah, fam. We know that vine meme by heart.
Julie Guld Christensen i remember the meme so much that I also can do his movements while saying it
@@G12eem you are a true blessing to this earth
Julie Guld Christensen thank you, i need an award
Laughs in phonetically consistent language
ははは
草が生えるね
finnish
@@danu4763 kyll'a'
Korean Gang rise up
Justin C. 어 지메 하네요!
6:42 I'M GONNA SAY THE N WORD
N E G U S
NEGUS
*crowd starts chanting*
AHAHAH HI UNORDINARY FAM WHAT'S GOOD
@@unscripted205feels good to beat up some shitty wellston bullies
UNORDINARY YEAAA
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Imagine having a language that makes so little sense in pronunciation that spelling bees are a thing lol
It's pretty hillarious
Why does colour make sense?
The last spelling bee I had in my life was in 3rd grade because it’s that time of life where you don’t know the difference between c and s and that’s pretty much it. And that’s on having a consistent language
Our language makes perfect sense. Problem is, we include words from languages from all over the world.
@@daddy._._.nathan Oh wait that's English as well
Speller: Use it in a sentence
The judges: I do not accociate with negus.
SPELLER: BRUH
Sidharth Rao hejamadi What’s up my negus?
Lol
MR OBAMA GET DOWN!
cringe
@@di3gom3dina Sorry that u found this cringey
"568 People will take the stage and only 1 will come out as the champion"
Or in this case there will be 8 co-champions because they literally ran out of words....
What
@@GreasyBaconBro have you been living under a rock?
@@esoscorridasos105 Yes, the rent is cheaper than an actual apartment.
@@GreasyBaconBro If you live under a rock how can you afford internet?
@@GreasyBaconBro search up 2019 national spelling bee 7 champions
Judge: Your word is “your”.
The Internet: Can you use it in a sentence?
Judge: I like YOUR shirt.
The Internet: Can I get the definition, please?
Judge: “Associated with the person that the speaker is addressing.”
The Internet: Origin of the word?
Judge: Old English.
The Internet: *sweats profusely
“Your”. Y-O-U... apostrophe-R-E! “YOU’RE”!
this banter was monotonous and plain imbecillious
Judge: That's... incorrect.
I can’t stand people who confuse “Your & You’re”
@@sandat8480 Same! Your so funny! You’re sense of humor is amazing!
lol
And here I am, as a Finn, smiling at The concept. We spell everything like we pronounce the letters.
I mean we have only one sound for each letter. That makes spelling quite easy.
(ノ｀Д´)ノ彡┻━┻ .·´¯`(>▂
Well the ng sound isn't consistent. For example kuningas, and auringon. There are a few edge case but ofr the most part the words are pronounced the same way they are spelled.
Edit:what i meant was that ng sound is different from how g usually sounds
@GlueEater87 in my dialect too but, normally the g is different like in the word gaala.
PERKELE
5:53 Any other physical movement they do
D A B
@@dhruvkapur2101 relatable, have a nice day.
Oh no, that's cringe, now i can't sleep at night
help the cringe demon is chasing me
Vine legend finally given the recognition he deserves
Who?
@@goodsocksproductions9397 iridocyclitis
Ikr! He's a personal hero.
Wooooo
I only liked to make it 1K ur welcome
00:24 I like when he came back just to say thank you sir good manners and politeness👏🙏😊
Narrator: they have to win in their classroom, district, and state to advance.
Also Narrator: there are 500 participants
Me: a yes I forgot they added 450 more states
Well the competitors are not just from the states, some are from places all across North America
I’m Canadian and I’m competing this year.
@@captainleefy Good Luck :)
@@captainleefy i hope the virus isnt gonna cancel your plans
Katipunan ng Sentido Comun Thank you 😊
They did him dirty to give him the word "Negus"
Nikola Nedyalkov Because it sounds like the n word and he’s white
Nikola Nedyalkov you have a default profile pic why am i not surprised you didn’t get it
"negus" n - i... *crowd clamoring*
clamering*
@@jimothyjimothy1 no he's right
@@jimothyjimothy1 clamering is absolutely not a word
@@jimothyjimothy1 L
@@jimothyjimothy1 you probably wouldn't do too well in one of these
US National Spelling bee:
Won by almost indians
James Mcgreevy I’m sure it’s from lala land...
Well I assume they're all US citizens, so no. Won entirely by Americans. Nice try at being racist tho
@@JohnNovakovich thanks
John Novakovich It’s a joke-
*_A l m o s t I n d i a n s_*
only somewhat related, but learning etymologies of words can be really helpful not just for English spelling/meaning but also for languages which borrow a lot from Chinese, such as Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. learning basic or common Chinese characters and their pronunciations in the language you're learning can help you to remember spelling and decipher unseen words
Judge: Spell your mom
Speller: Land of origin?
Judge: Your Grandmother
Kaveevin naa the blade will break when u try haha
@@W.H.V. you limited his family down again
if they never give birth again, the of family will be extinct
haha there's 666 likes
LANGUAGE OF ORIGIN
Judge: Spell Joe
Speller: Origin?
Judge: Joe Mama lmfao
Oh, so instead of memorizing thousands of words they just have to memorize thousands of etymological rules
Along with the rules.
lol
it's not memorizing. It's analysis and inquiry. Which leads to understanding, comprehension.
@@misse1228 Yup.
@@misse1228 so you can tell why only stupid US and UK? Has such thing?
America: ENGLISH spelling bee contest
India: I’m about to end this man’s whole career
5:52
Oh yeah, that dab
It’s nice that they have fun and cheer each other on. I don’t know why I assumed spelling bees are only stressful; maybe because that’s how I feel about them!
it is stressful.... you are competing against other people and theres a big prize
They specifically said they don't feel like they're competing against each other - they feel like they're competing against the dictionary. Replace "dictionary" with "their overbearing parents" if you wanna know what they're really thinking.
@@Dayvit78 True. I dont like this competition one bit.
6:45 He did it, he said the N-word! What a mad lad.
it's at 6:35
and
RIP Grumpy Cat
It's 6:36
The word was negus, a hot drink of port, sugar, lemon, and spices. He wasn't using a slur.
@@solaris9426 whoosh
I do not associate with *negus*
Oh how nice.
3000 pages of a dictionary isn't enough.
You also need another 3000 pages from every dictionary of every nation. Perfect.
ok weeb
*sighs loudly*
those german words are loanwords that are part of english dictionaries as well
1:03 sounds like Lil Jon. WHAAT
YEAAYEAAAH
What! What the fuck! 😂
Thats cuz it’s a audio of him. The actual video of the kid isn’t like that.
Lol yea. It also kinda sounds like 6ix9ine
English is a damn weird language
English is like combining multiple languages and having a latin origin
@Deming Joe Well, yeah but it is easier to say that English has origins from Latin and German
R H K M However, your appeal to ease of explanation makes it inaccurate and makes you seem uneducated
@@anguswu2685 I know, I am just simplify it but my comment was just a joke saying that English is a very integrated language incorporating words from different origins. Trust me, I know what I am writing, I don't blurt out things without doing research. Plus, I am 15, so you can say that I am uneducated by a bit.
It isn’t a language it’s three languages in a Trenchcoat pretending to be a language
You can be an athlete in anything if you win a prize!
Quote of the year - frame it!!
Naj Renchelf I’ll frame it on my fridge
*beats claw machine and gets prize*
I'm now officially an athlete
ThatGamingNobody, hahaha - hell yeah! 🙃
Negus
*word reveals itself
Kid: what have i done!
Thanks for explaining that we ask the language of origin, use, definition, pronunciations, etc. not to identify the word, necessarily, but because we know that certain origins, like Latin or Greek, lead to particular word endings, vowel patterns, silent letters, etc. There is also a book called 5000 words that comes out each year (or did) that helps learn newly recognized words. Much !more deductive reasoning and strategy involved along with memorization.
1:30 would have been so hilarious If she messed up! 😅
@@adnans3222 😂😂😂😂 #dying. I'm on the spectrum too. Too funny. My friends would call me savant, cuz I was so smart yet an idiot at the same time.
She would be psychologically damaged permanently if that happened lol.
It sounded like she said Euonymum
Judges: Spell They’re
Speller: use it in a sentence
Judges: You must spell they’re
I get that reference
Quack.
Go to club penguin dude
@@sibulu2878 penguins quack?
Cmc
“Because of my french roots I know that manger is the French word for eating
*proceeds to spell it wrong in a video about spelling bee’s*
Nicky he wasnt the one who cut the vid tho
Could be a conjugated form
"one thing is for sure" "1 person will come out the champion"
lol
necro
Reading a dictionary 2 hours a day for 7 years 🤯
@@_Ekaros Well if we count 300 days per year excluding holidays that would given an average of 50.000 dollars / (7*300*2) = 11.9 dollars per hour. And that is if you win the competition which is 1 in a 1000 case at best. Afterall there are 1,5 billion Indians out there, how on earth can you compete? LOL!
That moment when words in your language has the same spelling as it's pronunciation.
Spanish, Koreans and fellow Filipinos we can cry together
and Japanese
Geo Li in Spanish it does lol that’s why spelling bee isn’t a thing in most places, spelling and pronunciation almost always coincide in a lot of languages, English is a language made of exceptions lmao
Korean does has some minor inconsistent spellings iirc
@@kori228 That may be true, besides they were rarely asked in Scripps though :/
Bulgogi lang alam kong isa sa mga pinaspell. Idk what else
5:25 kid went down in a blaze of glory.
6:41 When you pass the exams 👌
6:40 when you pass the test that you didn't study for
I need the original clip, this needs to be made into a meme
Davinder Chandhok He looked genuinely terrified 😂
1:04 When your prom date leaves you two days before the dance
WHAT?!?
WHAT?!?
WHAT?!?
Allan Li lil Jon
Your channel teaches me, so I appreciate it
Scan my mans forehead to get a discount on your next spelling
That word “KABARAGOYA” in the intro credits is a Sri Lankan word in the language of Sinhala, native to TH country. Amazing such a word was featured here.
It is the name of the Sri Lankan water monitor
Unfortunately in the dictionary of Merriam Webster, this word's origin is unknown :/
Nice to see it being from Sinhalese
5:23 I have never felt more empathy for a mistake in a competition. Hope he went on to do great things, because damn if he didn't take his moment and at least make something of it.
That kid at 5:26 just gave up the word and start saying random things 😂😂😂😂
Dr. Jacque Baily is my Plato professor and is an amazingly awesome person. I just found out about his side job and I'm blown away.
lucky bastard!
"Imagine standing on a national stage..."
Me: *With dat haircut BOIIIII*
P P stfu
@@PP-ky2ji yeah stfu
Negus
negus
sugen
Nogos
nega
Negus
i enjoy all the clips they showed because all these kids seemed to enjoy themselves. I always figured kids would have a lot more breakdowns and freakouts. Damn just learning the rules was stressing me out.
2:22 looks like she has a filter lmao
1:51
You telling me I was on athlete for picking grass as a soccer goalie.
Damn, I need a scholarship.
Narrator:Or any other physical movement they do
Kid: *proceeds to dab*
Scar Sorna no that’s dead fuck you
@@Justin5s Bro chill
It's a joke
I like how you saw the lady that hit the bell get upset when she had to, you can tell these people want the kids to succeed
1:04 when someone snipes you in pubg
2:37 White Vs. White
Yeah, that's not going to get confusing.
I think they’re teammates practicing
@@tree8821 they could use pennies lol
Hezekiah Smithstein lol 😂
Also looked like a travel. I can't clearly tell
That feeling when your language has a sensible orthography and (fortunately) doesn't allow for such things.
No fun competition though
If you think that's bad, you have not encounter french
Exactly, in Latin America we don't have spelling bee competitions, because they are trivial, it's very obvious how to spell a word most of the time, BUT, we have spelling bee for English classes.
MrWhiteVzla If you hear a french word, you have a significant chance at spelling it right. There is no such thing as guessing the spelling of a word in English.
Imo Russian is difficult to write and pronounce correctly. If you don't know where the stress in a word is, you'll be mixing up the "о" and "а" sounds. "г" can be "g", "v" or "kh" and "e" isn't always "ye", it's sometimes pronounced as "e/э". "и" isn't consistently pronounced the same, sometimes it sounds like "ы" and "ё" is often written as just "е". Even though it's a better system than English, Russian is still a mess compared to other languages.
Call me by your name introduced me to etymology
“Imagine being up on the National Spelling Bee stage spelling a word in front of millions of people.”
Me up there on the stage spelling holomorphosis in the 2018 Scripps National Spelling Bee!
you’re cool
so they're basically spelling etymologist detectives. one of my favorite parts of classical studies and greek mythology is just how obvious those stories diffuse into modern spelling, and when you discover a danish word that must have the same old germanic roots as the english one, you really feel how organic an entity a language really is
@@adhanetkidane they're not silent they're just muddied shabby sloppy potato bleh sounds thank you very much
@@adhanetkidane oh i dont know i learned english before i had to worry about things like that but now that you mention it wtf cud u not
2:54 you used a Slovenian-English dictionary. Interesting choice.
ZxF et cetera and so on and et cetera and so on *sniffs, rubs his nose*
FlymanMS hehehe
Ok you made me happy that our language has been recognised :D, but why slovenian tho?
@@krisizcelja Because it’s much easier to spell than English? 😂
@@user-wm7rl6gy6s What do you mean by "easier to spell"? Slovenian is quite complex, but I don't want to get too detailed.
4:55 "I know milk is white and it's made out of milk"
Josh T. Lol damn. I’m ashamed to admit I must be an idiot too
"The German word pretzel"
Did you smoke something weird?
It's called a Brezel xD
... lmao wut
romanization: R O M A N I S A T I O N.
What do you mean that's wrong? I'm not wrong, you're wrong!
@Qam05 I know. That's the joke.
they probably will count both spellings as correct
@@MrWizardjr9 they should, since the language is called English afterall
In Latin America we don't have spelling bee competitions, because they are trivial, it's very obvious how to spell a word most of the time, BUT, we have spelling bee for English classes.
It's supposedly trivial and still a lot of my classmates have bad orthography, even adults do.
2:35 how do you rebound after your opponents score 🤔
Other nations: We have many winners who won spelling bee.
**Not even a fly**
**Not even Zeus**
India: *Hold ma biryani *
Spelling bees are funny to me since I am German.
In German, there is no mystery about how a word is spelled. Pretty much all German words you can accurately find out how they are spelled, just by pronouncing them.
as someone who had to learn german in middle school from an unenthusiastic worn out teacher i must admit that the consistency of your excessive consonanting escaped me entirely and to this day i still find myself lost when having to spell schwarzxchschild black holes
@@Crosshill It really is something that comes with practice/time spend reading the language.
After a while, what sounds belong to what combination of letters become quite apparent and you'll be able to write down any word just by listening. You won't get a "Lead/lead" or "Leicester" situation.
@Stephanie François non-english germanic languages may not be written at all phonetically sensibly, but at least its still predictable to a large degree. tho it helps that the size of total vocabulary is so low that you're less likely to encounter unfamiliar words lol
@Stephanie François we're just making an arbitrary relative comparison list of difficulty arent we?
in finnish you cant say "almost all". in finnish EVERY word has accurate consistent phonetical spelling. Ai kuld vrait inglis laik tö vei finns vrait auor ovn langvitsh
1:04 is he 30 or 13?
His posture is so bad lol
Both
WHAT!
ohmie homie 30 physically 13 mentally
His voice's edited I think
6:37 Priceless..
"Your word is negus."
"What'd you call me?"
"Any other physical movement they do"
*shows kid dabbing*
Edit: damn I should look at comments more turns out someone already said this.
In a nutshell, Spelling Bee is like Tetris, when the accomplishments are demolished and the mistakes stack up.
the host looks so much like chelsea perretti/ gina from b99
Knaidel derived from the German word Knödel a popular German dish.
Negus, The king of Ethiopia
okay but as a spelling bee kid, i agree with this. it's really not just memorization. that's IMPOSSIBLE. we don't spend nights just reading the dictionary, memorizing spellings. that would drive us insane lmao. it's luck and logic above everything else, pretty much.
Spell bee starters pack
1. Be born indian or asian
2. Wear spectacles
3. Be that one annoying kid in the class who always asks questions
Jammy You do realize India is literally in Asia?
@@bittersweet3410 yeah but I was too lazy to remove it after I wrote it
They're the kinda people that most people are jealous of.
Hmm, did someone called me?
Sounds exactly true to me ...
6:37 bringing in a classic I see.
4:48 "manger" is the verb "to eat," not "mange." The latter being the conjugated form of the verb. He pronounced it correctly but the spelling on screen was wrong.
Pretty ironic
2:53 why did you use a picture of a Slovenian dictionary
Maybe because of a lot of dyacritic symbols that make it look weird and complex.
Excuse me my language is not complex
I wish I watched this when i was in a musical about Spelling bees
It would’ve low key been helpful
Dev is a gem ❤️
I'm to illiterate for this video...
Lol dont know if your grammar mistakes are sarcasm or you just being you.
As a European I really wonder why this is a thing. Why parents let their children study that hard? And why do people watch children pronunciate words in television? But well, it´s still very impressive.
because in europe a lot of the languages have pretty consistent rules of pronunciation and everything like that, unlike english
europe aint for tryhards lol if a 7 year old kiddo wants to study piano all the other parents'd give them a stinkeye regardless of how passionate the kiddo is because elitist tryharding childabuse is bad
I'm Canadian, but more relevant is just my general life outlook, and I find it weird to spend 7 years at 2hrs per day doing anything so pointless. Unless, of course, the child was truly passionate about it. In which case, good on them for finding what they love so young.
@@Crosshill
Plenty of very accomplished European pianists. Piano creates truly moving and enjoyable life experiences. Spelling, generally, much less so. Music > spelling. Unrefined comparison, imo.
@@hhiippiittyy thats not at all the point, i was picking up on the 'Why parents let their children study that hard?' part of it
He came back to say “thank you” 😀👍👍
As a kid, it was kind of confusing that in a lot of cartoons, spelling was such a big deal, since spelling in Spanish is mostly trivial.
Outside V vs B, Z vs S, C vs S and J vs G, and some silent H's, it's not difficult enough to be an exciting event.
Of course, after studying more English I found out how ridiculously inconsistent it can be.
iridocyclitis
Thank u! I saw the kid but couldn't remember the word
iridocyclitoris**
It's such an american thing, except for movies I've never seen spelling bee.
You say it's an American thing when it's much more pushed by the Indians
@@JaKingScomez I did not know that, thanks!
Really?
@@100tijs you can clearly see half of them were Indians and most of the winners of this so called "sport" are also Indians.
@1:04 His "what" got me 😂
This is actually pretty impressive
We dont have spelling contests in Germany so I was always confused in american shows that were translated to german when they said something about a spelling contest
Why didn’t anybody tell me about this when I was younger? I know how to spell negus
C’mon
Lmao I hope he knows that he made a godly sample
Person: all other movements they do help them
Kid: dabs
5:54
oml xD
4:52 the French cord for to eat is Manger not Mange but its pronounced that way
And blanc =/= bleu (prononciation)
With that VHS tape sound and rewind transition, I thought I was watching the SB Nation TH-cam channel. Accidental or not?
We all know what we came for
I R R I D O S I C L I T I S
"I would've been fucked"
Ok I'm so confused. The dictionary at 2:54 is in SLOVENIAN (where im from). Like HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?
I will tell you. Because Raja- Means King in Hindi and also English. In English it means Indian King. Same follows for most languages Their words end up in English sooner or later.
Sushrey what? Ur comment makes no sense
This is kind of like the geography bee. You do not memorize everything. You use the information they give you. They may tell you a monument and terrain around it and you need to say what country it is in. You think about the name of monument and if it sounds like a certain countries language and the terrain matches you can say that country. I find it helps to visualize the world map and terrain around world and memorize a standard set of facts about all countries. Like language and a bit of history.
Wow! I never knew such a thing existed. Is it a national competition as well?
*It's about being Indian and having a 32 letter name*
Was scrolling for this comment, thanks!
jaskiranpreetjeet dhaliwjasstill
TH-cam knows me so well thanks recommended
Wow, spelling bees have changed a lot since I was competing in them in the 90s. The only questions we could ask back then were to use the word in a sentence and to provide the definition of the word. Language of origin or possible alternate pronunciations weren't available. That traffic light thing is something I'd never even seen any sort of hint about. And a homophone was my downfall the time I made it to state-level competition at the age of 8 -- the word was "taught" but I spelled "tot." I didn't make it back to competition after that because we didn't even hold competitions for it again until I was in high school -- they just sent the kid that was my rival on to regionals without even telling anyone that there was a competition happening. When I found out about that I got pretty upset and demanded my shot at it, and we'd been exchanging words for quite a while when I tripped over my tongue and flubbed "artillerist" as "artillirest". But at least I had a fair shot that time.
It's also amusing to see kids air-typing the words. I can't judge! It's totally a meaningful muscle-memory association, and it's one that only really works for people who have been using a keyboard extensively during early language development. (I used a keyboard more than most kids when I was that age and was already typing 60+wpm by then, but since I had to turn in all of my homework assignments handwritten until I was in 8th grade it wasn't as strong of an association.)