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UNSW students in Japanese Language Speech Contest
(L to R) Kikuko Nakamura, Rebecca Law, Tammy Yip, Missy Tan, Anita Lau, Sumiko Iida
The 39th NSW State Japanese Language Speech Contest was held on 13 September 2008. This is an annual event and is hosted by the Japan Foundation and the Consul General of Japan. Four UNSW students entered the contest this year, and picked up the top three prizes in the Open Beginners Division.
1st Prize: Tammy Yip, "The peaceful lifestyle of Greece"
2nd Prize: Missy Tan, "Culture shock: Australian and alcohol"
3rd Prize: Rebecca Law, "Culture shock in Vietnam"
Anita Lau, "The culture shock I experienced: The fine lifestyle"
Congratulations to all UNSW students who entered the contest, and special thanks to the support and coaching advice that Kikuko Nakamura and Sumiko Iida, academic members of the School, have provided to the students.
Tammy Yip will represent NSW in the upcoming National Final on 18 October 2008 at the State Library of New South Wales. We wish her all the best.
Linguistics Seminar on Australian English
Date: Tuesday,21 October 2008, 2-4PM
Venue: Morven Brown LG2
Dr Vincent B.F. Ooi, Associate Professor at the Department of English and Literature, University of National University of Singapore, will be giving a special Linguistics seminar on Australian English. For abstract of the seminar, please click here.
JET Programme 2009-2010 Information Session
Date: Friday, 24 October 2008, 1-2PM
Venue: Morven Brown 211
The Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme is a Japanese government sponsored exchange program that aims to improve foreign language teaching in schools and to promote international understanding. The JET Programme offers highly qualified university graduates opportunities to work either as Assistant Language Teachers in Japanese schools or Coordinators for International Relations in selected local government offices in Japan.
Applications for the 2009 - 2010 prgramme will be available from the end of September and close on Monday, 1 December 2008.
Further information is available at the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs website and the official JET Programme website.
Call for Papers
The Sydney German Studies Symposium 2009
Collective Creativity
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - The University of New South Wales
The Goethe Institute Sydney
23 – 26 July 2009
Gerhard Fischer, University of New South Wales (Convenor) in co-operation with Sabine Rossbach (University of Adelaide), Klaus R. Scherpe (Humboldt-University Berlin) and Florian Vassen (Leibniz-University Hannover)
The Sydney German Studies Symposium 2009 is part of a series of scholarly conferences sponsored by the Department of German Studies at the University of New South Wales since 1980. The symposia are international, interdisciplinary academic conferences devoted to current issues in literary and cultural studies, with a focus on - but not exclusively restricted to – contemporary German literature and culture. Recent symposia have addressed themes such as ‘Writing since The Fall of the Wall’, ‘Adventures of Identity’, ‘The Play within the Play’ or ‘W.G. Sebald and Expatriate Writing’; others were dedicated to a critical analysis of aspects of the work of Walter Benjamin, Hans Magnus Enzensberger or Heiner Müller.
The symposium is traditionally held bi-annually on the last weekend in July and organized in co-operation with the Goethe Institute Sydney which also offers the venue for the event. In 2009, the topic of he Symposium will be ‘Collective Creativity’.
For more information, click here: http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/news/conferences/collective_creativity09/
Contact: g.fischer@unsw.edu.au
A traditional start to Japanese 1000.
Over 350 students have enrolled in the beginners course JAPN1000 (Japanese Communication 1A) and to mark the occasion A/Prof Chihiro Thomson and her students donned traditional Japanese dress at the first lecture!
Pictured from left to right are Pann Pann Chung (Honours student), Kana Okada (MA student), A/Prof Chihiro Thomson, and Kaori Shimasaki (Exchange student from Tohoku University).
UNSW students are winners in Japanese Speech Contest
(L to R) Nagisa Fukui, Jenny Chen, Yun Bai, Sumiko Iida, Chihiro Thomson, Mai Uchino and Owen Hilton.
The NSW State Final of the 34th Japanese Speech Contest was held on 1 September 2007. This event is hosted by the Japan Foundation and the Consul General of Japan. In the Open Beginners Division UNSW students picked up the top three prizes:
1st Prize Yun BAI, "Learning how to learn in Australia"
2nd Prize Billy JAYA, "Japan, the place of perfect service"
3rd Prize Jenny Heng-Chen CHEN "Culture shock experience - Aged care in Canada"
Owen HILTON was awarded a special prize in the Open Beginners Division with his speech "Australian drivers"
Anna Lam was awarded 2nd prize in the Open Division ("Japanese culture crisis in Australia"), whilst in the Background Speakers Division Mai Uchino was awarded first prize ("I want to be a bilingual - A child's wish") and Aiko Leung won second prize ("The Japanese value of respect conveyed in various human relations”).
Both Yun BAI and Mai UCHINO will represent NSW in the upcoming National Final on October 13th. We wish them all the best.
UPDATE
The 38th Australian National Final Japanese Language Speech Contest results
Congratulations to Yun Bai and Mai Uchino who were both awarded second place in their respective divisions at the Australian National Final Japanese Language Speech Contest held on 13 October 2007.
New Language Labs officially opened
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| These photographs are of the new School of Languages and Linguistics language laboratories on level one of the Morven Brown Building. | |
The School of Languages and Linguistics is the beneficiary of a large development grant allocated to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. It has enabled the School to acquire the latest technology for its language teaching and training in its interpreting programs. The new language laboratory is housed in newly refurbished rooms on Level one of the Morven Brown Building.
The new equipment is easy to use and includes features such as:
- Consecutive and Simultaneous interpreting facilities
- Access to a vaster variety of listening sources
- Ability to record students’ speech and collect sound files
- Improved research opportunities
The official opening ceremony took place in August 2007.
