Marietta's Jackson Allen Wins German Language Competition

Marietta resident Jackson Allen, a 17-year-old AP German student from The Walker School, was awarded first prize at his level for a competition held in conjunction with the celebration of the European Day of Languages at the Goethe Zentrum and Alliance Française in Atlanta. He received the award on September 18, 2014. Photo attached.

Jackson submitted a video of himself reading a selection from “Der Suppenkasper,” a story from the classic German children’s book Struwelpeter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBRLCvL80Ng

The competition aims to foster the promotion of foreign language learning across cultures and to play an active advocacy role for the purpose of raising awareness of the importance of foreign language learning in a global society.

Allen is a junior at The Walker School in Marietta.