As you may have heard the Japan Foundation Sydney is running an online Talent Contest, J-Talent for the Oceania Region.
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.
- Welcome to my…(school, hometown, country, etc.)
- Something I love
- My discovery (realisations from daily life)
- What I wonder about
- -> Your choice
Please check the judging criteria for the contest here: https://jpf.org.au/jpf/jpfmedia/J-Talent-Judging-Criteria-1.pdf
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!
We can’t wait to see your fantastic entries!
For any questions, don’t hesitate to contact jtalent@jpf.org.au