Sonia Ann Schlesinger, winner of the first spelling bee in Japan, will be shooting for the top when the three-day National Spelling Bee in Washington gets under way Wednesday.
If she does well in the championship, the 13-year-old American hopes to get on television by cracking the vaunted top 50.
¡°It¡¯s hard to get there, but that¡¯s when they start broadcasting on TV,¡± the student at Nishimachi International School said last week. ¡°I want to get there.¡±
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