2021/12/14

The 15th Annual Student Interpretation Contest was held online on Saturday, November 27th. Eleven students from eleven universities across the country participated in the competition, in which contestants conducted English-Japanese consecutive interpreting to the theme “The Quest for Humanity’s ‘New Normal’”, and KUFS student Jin Tanaka, 3rd-year student of the Department of British and American Studies, won 3rd place.

On his achievement Tanaka comments with joy, “Consecutive interpreting is very difficult because your English skills won’t be enough. You have to be able to constantly think and speak in both Japanese and English, and I had a hard time since I was only focused on studying English before the contest. So I owe my professor a big thank you for giving me a ton of advice, which is how I won 3rd place! It was definitely tough but worthwhile at the same time and I’m glad that I took on this challenge.”

The results are as follows.

1st floor- International Christian University
2nd floor- Nagoya University of Foreign Studies
3rd floor- Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (Jin Tanaka)
Jury’s Encouragement Award- Kanda University of International Studies

【Related information】
KUFS OFFICIAL BLOG (Department of British and American Studies)

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