Fall 2026

First Semester Japanese

First Semester Japanese teaches basic speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills for everyday communication.

offering recorded4 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Takako Nakakubo4.3/5Anju KinoshitaCatherine Lambert +2 more

Summary

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Historical reviews of Emre Murat Bozer: The class requires daily pre- and post-class homework, and falling behind risks failure.

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Prerequisites

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Not open to students who have completedASIALANG 114(or E ASIAN 124 prior to Summer 2019)

  • not eligible with
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Professors

Fall 2026

Takako Nakakubo

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About this rating

Raw average: 4.86/5 from 22 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.66 GPA, 78.7% A/AB (n=122 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.44 GPA, 71.3% A/AB (n=101 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.43 GPA, 71.4% A/AB (n=112 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.52 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=40 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical reviews for Emre Murat Bozer highlight his engaging energy and clear explanations, though one student noted he speaks too fast in Japanese. He is described as caring and responsive to questions, but grading delays were reported.

ANJU KINOSHITA is recorded teaching in Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

EMRE MURAT BOZER is recorded teaching in Fall 2021. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

TAKAKO NAKAKUBO is recorded teaching in Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Fall 2026

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction16 / 200
LEC 002Classroom Instruction20 / 200
LEC 003Classroom Instruction18 / 200
LEC 004Classroom Instruction19 / 200
LEC 005Classroom Instruction17 / 200
LEC 006Classroom Instruction20 / 200

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Student experience

the class

Historical reviews for Emre Murat Bozer describe an engaging and caring instructor with high energy, though the course demands daily study and homework to succeed.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.66 GPA, 78.7% A/AB (n=122 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.44 GPA, 71.3% A/AB (n=101 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.43 GPA, 71.4% A/AB (n=112 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Emre Murat Bozer: The class requires daily pre- and post-class homework, and falling behind risks failure.

Historical reviews of Emre Murat Bozer: Students found Bozer's lectures great and engaging, though one noted he sometimes speaks too fast in Japanese.

Topics

  • Basic everyday situations in Japanese.

Skills

  • Speaking, listening, reading, and writing proficiency.
  • Communication in basic everyday situations.

Grades

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The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

4 earlier forecasts · 0.13 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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1320 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
ASIALANG 103 · Fall 2026

First Semester Japanese

Recorded 2026-09-07
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-09-07

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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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Model & dataset provenance 
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