JaViChamp Japanese Video Championship for Young Learners UK – Finals Day! On Saturday 9th July 2022, we were excited and delighted to hold the finals day of the inaugural Japanese Video Championship for Young Learners UK. This was a brand new event established in 2022 for primary and secondary school and sixth form students studying Japanese in the UK. This was the first contest for young learners run by The Japan Foundation, London where both learners of Japanese as a modern foreign language, and learners of Japanese as a heritage language, were eligible to compete – either individually or as part of a team. We asked young learners of Japanese in the UK to use their Japanese and make and submit videos on set topics. We wanted applicants to not only use their Japanese, bu...
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