Saturday, January 21, 2012

Enriching Japanese Language Knowledge through Kanji Contest



Jakarta - Japanese language skills and knowledge can be made through the proficiency gained control of the Kanji letters. One opportunity to test in this case, within the a Kanji contest. Likewise conducted hundreds of high school students and students of various universities from Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, Bekasi and Banten who participated in a Kanji contest some time ago. This contest was held by Universitas Nasional (Unas).

"This year there were 443 contestant who participated in the Kanji contest. This amount increases compared last year who just managed to crawl 300 participants. Not only that, this year the range cover is also widespread, not only Jabodetabek (Jakarta, Bogor, Tangerang, Depok & Bekasi but also Banten," said the Chairman of Pusat Pengkajian Jepang (PPJ) Unas, Meizar Abdullah.

The contest is divided into two category i.e. for categories of students and public, and other categories of school. According to Meizar, there is an increasing number of university which participate in these activities. This time, the Kanji contest followed by 12 universities, among others from the Universitas Indonesia, UHAMKA, STBA LIA, Al Azhar, Darmapersada, Universitas Negeri Jakarta, dan STBA Cipto Hadipranoto.

For the school, as many as 34 schools sent representatives to compete. Among other participants came from SMAN 33 Cengkareng, SMA 1 Dramaga Bogor, SMAN 11 Tanggerang, SMAN 1 Ciampea Bogor, SMA Plus PGRI Cibinong, SMK Borobudur 1 Cilandak, SMAN 13 Jakarta Utara, SMAN 33 Cengkareng and so on.

"Each school may send between 10-20 participants,"  he said.

This Kanji contest was the fourth time held by Unas with PT Mandom Indonesia support. Meizar said, this is a proof of great friendship between Indonesia and Japan. The President Director of PT Mandon Indonesia, Takeshi Hibi were also present in this event.
"I hope this activity can be a medium for sharing experience and the more you can draw closer to the culture and language of Japan," said Takeshi.

In categories of students and public come across as champion, Kinanti from Universitas Indonesia, the runner up was captured by Dwi Nur Febriana (UNAS), and Tuti from UNJ occupying the third place. While, for high schools and equivalent, as the champion is Fadhilan, ther runner up is Hardian Muhammad, and the third place was captured by Anisa Nur Adina. The winner is entitled with many stuff, from the electronic dictionary, notebook, ipod, and a shopping voucher of Gramedia Bookstore.



source : http://edukasi.kompas.com/read/2012/01/20/11432975/

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