Nagoya-Info News

This is our first month of running live so please bare with us as we do our best to refine the site and add content daily.  Once again, thanks for stopping by and remember to add your suggestions for improvements.  We look forward to hearing from you!!

Reminders

For those taking or wanting to apply for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test in December, the deadline for applications is 12th of September!!  As long as your application is post marked the 12th or earlier, you are officially safe (as long as you filled in the application form corretly that is!).  Click here for more details about the test.

September 10th 2008 - Forum is up!!

The new Nagoya-info forum is officially up and running so come along and post your topics.  We are using a simple forum in "minute board" style but will upgrade as the community gets larger.

Local

October 13th-14th - Nagoya Festival

Don't forget the Nagoya festival taking place at various locations around Nagoya starting on the 13th.  A public holiday for most of of so get down to Nagoya / Sakae for a day of festival food, performances and fun. Find out a little more by clicking here and scrolling down to October events!

August 22nd 2008 - Junior High School English Contest

The yearly Nagoya English contest was held in the basement of the Naka-kuakusho (Naka-ku area office), next to the Chunichi Building in Sakae.  The contest featured over 100 Junior High schools in Nagoya competing in two pools, the morning and the afternoon.  In the morning and afternoon sessions, there were 2 groups - those doing a personal speech and those in a pair performing a skit / conversation.  Winners were chosen purely on their performance that day with individual speakers competing only with other individual speakers, and not with the pairs.

It was an inspirational display of public speaking by the students who who are all 3rd grade Junior High School students.  The speechs and conversations covered a range of topics but largely focused on the environment, earthquakes, peace and love.

In the Afternoon session from 19 individual speakers, 6 were chosen for 'grand prize' awards and only 5 from 26 pairs awarded.  The competition was tough and the judges, who looked for fluency, pronounciation, volume, expression and confidence, were strict in choosing the few winners.

Special praise goes out to Sakurda Junior High School, whose pair (Riho Yoshida and Hitomi Kamiya), performed a brilliant conversation skit based on the effects of the atomic bomb and wanting world peace.  They spoke with confidence, fluency, meaning and belief and were duely recognised by the judges. OMEDETOU!!!!!!