Spell Like a Ninja: Top tips, rules and remedies to supercharge your spelling

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Ultimately from Chinese roots, ninja comes from the Japanese words nin,“endurance” or “ stealth,” and sha,“a person.” When combined, these characters roughly mean “one who endures” or “one skilled in stealth.” SBN is well aware of the difficulty level of the words used in this case, so the spelling test is considered official.

Possible values are from zero (no repeats allowed) up to unlimited repetitions per word, we suggest you to allow repetitions when learning new words and take tests with no repetition when reviewing. One of the first uses of ninja in English was in Ian Fleming’s 1964 James Bond novel You Only Live Twice, adapted into film in 1967. Even earlier than that, in 1962, The Times of India published an article titled “The Fabulous Ninjas” that explored the history and traditions of Japanese ninjas.After choosing all your options accordingly to your needs, press the “ Start Test” button to begin your Spelling Test. Select here the student that is going to take the test, as some SBN accounts allows more than one student. Choose here how many words you want for this spelling test, the app allows 10, 15 or 20 words per test, the default and suggested value is 10 when learning new words, but you can use more words if you are taking review tests (I.e. using words that you already know).

Through this option you can choose which spelling list use for the test, among the ones you created or imported, to know more about spelling lists, documentation related to spelling lists handling. In a 2015 piece on the misappropriation of Asian culture in the tech industry, programmer Brian Kung explained how tech companies co-opt Asian culture, language, and ideas, like ninjas, Zen koans, and Buddhism to capitalize on our collective interest in these ideas. Kung described not just job listings for, say, programming ninjas but also coding programs that incorporate language about becoming a master of a skill and achieving enlightenment.Meanwhile, Asian labor is often exploited by major tech companies, such as in Apple factories overseas, where workers are rumored to work for low wages in terrible conditions. And, in the United States, Asian-Americans are disproportionately underrepresented in higher-level tech jobs. In 2014, Asian Americans made up just over two percent of corporate leadership at Fortune 500 companies, according to DiversityInc, despite making up a large percentage of highly skilled and educated tech industry workers. Unfortunately, for many children, this does not happen. Instead, reading is an onerous chore where they have to repeatedly stop to spend time and effort sounding out a slew of words. Some people consider the extended use of ninja to be appropriative and offensive. Essentially, they argue, calling someone a “fill-in-the-skill ninja” strips the word of its meaning and its cultural roots, for the purpose of being funny, grabbing attention, or worse, turning a profit.

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Traditionally, the word ninja is defined as “a member of a feudal Japanese society of mercenary agents, highly trained in martial arts and stealth (ninjutsu), who were hired for covert purposes ranging from espionage to sabotage and assassination.” These ninjas have captured the Western pop culture imagination since at least the 1960s, when the word was borrowed into English. note : in the following notation += means incrementing the variable by the value that follows example x+=3 means x = x+ 3.

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Once your child completes a test, it's essential that they practice spelling the words they got wrong. We recommend writing out each word, by hand, at least three times. Play button: right on the left side of the answer field, also activated by the enter keyword, submits the content of the answer field as your answer. Then, a 1984 comic book introduced introduced four, teenaged, humanoid, pizza-loving, sewer-dwelling turtles named after Italian painters who fought crime in Manhattan with their ninjitsu: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . The comic books, and later, franchise of TV shows, movies, and toys, helped make ninja a household word not just in the United States but around the world in the 1980–90s. Smart Training (Learn): take a spelling test provided by the Smart Training algorithm in learning mode, to learn new words and fix your errors ( see smart training documentation).