As with many other events, the Auckland Area Secondary School Japanese Speech Competition was held using an online format this year. The participants recorded their speeches on video in front of an audience.
This year there were originally 41 participants across three categories. 23 participants submitted videos (6, 7, and 10 in Open, Year 11, and Years 12&13 Categories, respectively). The Q&A session with Top 3 from Years 12&13 Category was held, and the results for all three categories were finalised during the week.
As you may have heard the Japan Foundation Sydney is running an online Talent Contest, J-Talent for the Oceania Region.
https://jpf.org.au/events/whats-your-j-talent/
Participants are encouraged to showcase their Japan-related talents, including Japanese language from the below four categories.
Japanese Language
Lifestyle
Traditional Arts and Culture
Pop Culture
We invite you and your students to enter the contest, particularly the Japanese Language category and have fun with the Japanese Language for the chance to win some great prizes! Entries can be up to 2 minutes in length and individual, group and family entries are strongly encouraged.
A fifth free topic (Your choice) has been added to the four topics to make it easier for everyone to enter.
There are two points regarding the Japanese language, which may appear overwhelming however please be aware that the weighting of this criteria is much smaller than content and video. The focus is squarely on having fun with language, so please encourage all of your students to not be shy and have a try!
If you or your students don’t feel comfortable entering the language category, we warmly welcome you to enter one of the other categories (lifestyle, traditional arts and culture, pop culture) and show off your hidden Japan-related talents!
We have added a fun sample video (Japanese) of 30 seconds to help get some ideas flowing (however entries can be of up to 2 minutes). Please see it here:https://youtu.be/jEpfb28EPBo
As mentioned in the guidelines, Japanese language audio should be accompanied by English subtitles for the enjoyment of all. To make this easier, we have added a ‘how-to’ tutorial video here:https://youtu.be/9ZKoRKxqwdsCaptions
We hope this helps inspire you and/or your students to enter this fun contest and unleash their #JTalent.
Submissions are being accepted until October 31, so there’s plenty of time to enter!
The seventh Japanese Studies Aotearoa New Zealand (JSANZ) Tertiary Japanese Language Speech Contest is now accepting applications until September 11 2020.
Please find the full guidelines on this website under ‘Resources’.
If you would like to see a video of our 2019 winner, Alisha Elliott’s speech please look at the November 13 post on this page.
Congratulations to the winners of this year’s contest.
1st place Alisha Elliott (IPU) 挑戦から得たもの 2nd place Jordan Schulde (Victoria University of Wellington) 私の日本の経験 3rd place Nicki Jackson (Ara Institute) 私が日本語を学ぶ本当の理由
We would like to share the video of the JSANZ Speech Contest winner, Alisha Elliott from IPU.
AUT Japanese department held a morning tea on 14 June to welcome the new Consul, Sukeno san to his post at the Consulate General of Japan, Auckland, and to farewell Hayasaka san at the end of his two year post. Hayasaka san will be sorely missed for all the work he has done for Japanese language education and we look forward to working with Sukeno san after he settles in to his new life in New Zealand.
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2018 JSANZ Tertiary Japanese Language Speech Contest.
First place: Jee Hyun Cho (University of Auckland)
Second place: Gabrielle Gibb-Faumuina (University of Canterbury)
Third equal place: Vincent Nicoll-van Leeuwen (Ara Institute of Canterbury) / Vanessa Tubman (Massey University)
We would like to congratulate all of the participants. The judges were impressed with the quality of their speeches and had great difficulty selecting the winners. Well done! All of the participants will receive a certificate and summarised comments from the judges.
This year’s national champion Jee Hyun Cho will receive return air tickets to Japan. A huge thank you to Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Auckland INC ‘Nisui-Kai’ for supporting our event as the major sponsor. Jee’s winning speech video clip will be released soon through JSANZ Facebook and JSANZ website.
Gabrielle Gibb-Faumuina, Vincent Nicoll-van Leeuwen and Vanessa Tubman will receive Prezzy cards, sponsored by the Sasakawa Fellowship Fund for Japanese Language Education, New Zealand Association of Japanese Language Teachers and the Japan Foundation, who will also contribute to the cost of travel for students to the prize giving.
We hope the participants continue their Japanese learning journeys and wish them all the best for their future.
