"Are you Studying or Teaching Year 10, 11 or 12 Japanese?"

Tue 10 Mar 2009

Entries are now invited into the 2009 JSA Online Speech Contest. Teachers are invited to nominate up to three students from their school to enter the contest for a chance to win a 10-day, all expenses-paid trip to Japan!

Japanese speech contests are typically held in capital cities only, therefore excluding students living in rural and regional Australia. The JSA Online Speech Contest utilises modern-day technologies to overcome the barriers of distance and create more equal opportunities for all Australian students of Japanese.

Students must create an original speech in Japanese, digitally record it and upload it to our website. From these online video entries, five finalists will be short-listed to participate in a Skype interview, consisting of a Japanese and an English component. All finalists will receive a certificate.

Following the interviews, one student will be selected to participate in the 10-day JSA Exchange Program in Japan in late July, 2009. During the program, the successful applicant will also represent Australia in an International Speech Contest with participants from 12 other countries.

For more information visit JSA's website http://www.jsa-australia.org