Kentucky’s First Annual Japanese Speech Contest was held in Lexington on March 1st, 2014. The speech contest invited high school and college level students from around the state to compete in various categories, based on their level of Japanese study. One University of Kentucky student, Faiyad Mannan, a double major in Biology and Japanese Studies, won first place in the Advanced Speech category. In this podcast, Mannan discusses the contest and what he enjoys most about learning Japanese. Click here to find out more about JASK, the Japanese/American Society of Kentucky.

This podcast was produced by Casey Hibbard.

Speaking Their Language: Finding Japanese in the Bluegrass with Faiyad Mannan by UK College of Arts & Sciences is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.