The Speech Contest was held earlier today at JAS. It was indeed an eye opener for someone who hopes to pick up the language one day. As an audience member, it is inspiring to see others with similar interest like us be able to converse so fluently in the Japanese language. Granted that theirs speeches were memorised, it also reflected how much thought and practise was put into making it to the finals of this Speech Contest.

There was a few categories- secondary, junior college, tertiary and open. As I only attended the tertiary and open catergories sections, the topics spoken about ranged from 痩せてどうする to　饮水思源 or even to Singlish. The first prize was a return air ticket to Japan, the second was a 20in LCD tv and so on..

The contestants had an enjoyable time too and I look forward to seeing some of our JCC members participate next year! Trying once for the competition does not barr you from trying again the next year so TRY and TRY again!

がんばって！

posted by JCC @ 10:25 PM;