Although teachers do check that young students can write words ( [here’s one that tests a young student’s ability to convert from hiragana to katakana](https://i.imgur.com/DgE4rs0.jpeg) ), most all Japanese words are simply phonetic so a more culturally equivalent brain-power test would be the Chinese character aptitude test I guess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji_Kentei
there are no such thing as spelling bees outside the US lol
No such thing, the written language is so different from the alphabet
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Although teachers do check that young students can write words ( [here’s one that tests a young student’s ability to convert from hiragana to katakana](https://i.imgur.com/DgE4rs0.jpeg) ), most all Japanese words are simply phonetic so a more culturally equivalent brain-power test would be the Chinese character aptitude test I guess:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji_Kentei
there are no such thing as spelling bees outside the US lol
No such thing, the written language is so different from the alphabet
I don’t believe they have that.
But they have The kanji Kentei test