Students studying Japanese will have a chance to test their chops April 12 at Tennessee’s first-ever Japanese Speech Contest. The event will take place April 12 from 12:15 to 6:30 p.m. at Wilson Hall on the Vanderbilt University campus. It is free and open to the public.
Nearly 50 students from universities across Tennessee and Kentucky have registered to compete.
The Vanderbilt East Asian Studies Program, in conjunction with the Japan-America Society of Tennessee, Consular Office of Japan in Nashville and the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, is hosting the contest, which will be held annually.
Contestants will deliver three- to five-minute speeches from memory on a topic of their choosing in Japanese. All will be non-native Japanese speakers.
Participating universities are University of Tennessee Martin, University of Tennessee Knoxville, East Tennessee State University, Middle Tennessee State University, University of the South, Sewanee, University of Memphis, Maryville College, Belmont University, Murray State University and Vanderbilt.
For more information about the contest, contact Keiko Nakajima, keiko.r.nakajima@vanderbilt.edu or (615) 322-2027. For more information about the Vanderbilt East Asian Studies Program, visit www.vanderbilt.edu/east_asia/. For more Vanderbilt news, visit www.vanderbilt.edu/news.
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