Spring 2027

Eighth Semester Asian Language

Eighth semester course targeting advanced high proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing an Asian language through communicative approaches.

offering recorded3–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Muhammad Asif4.0/5Erlin BarnardHong Dinh +1 more

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=4 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Communicate with accuracy and fluency in formal and informal settings from both concrete and abstract perspectives in the target language.

  • Sustain conversations and lead discussions on diverse topics, including unfamiliar ones.

  • Write extensively about a variety of topics with significant precision and detail in the target language.

  • Handle analytical tasks, such as developing arguments and constructing hypotheses.

  • Deliver presentations tailored to diverse audiences and adapt register culturally.

  • Identify main ideas and significant details in narrative and descriptive written and oral discourse of any length, as well as complex ones in the target language.

  • Infer meaning from texts on unfamiliar topics or situations.

  • Analyze speaker/author-intended inferences.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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ASIALANG 421 or placement into ASIALANG 422

ASIALANG 422

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=4 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=2 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ERLIN BARNARD is recorded teaching in Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

HONG DINH is recorded teaching in Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JANPANIT SURASIN is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MUHAMMAD ASIF is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024. 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

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Online Only0 / 100
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 100
LEC 003Online Only0 / 100
LEC 004Classroom Instruction0 / 100
LEC 005Classroom Instruction0 / 100

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=4 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Advanced high level proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
  • Analytical tasks including developing arguments and constructing hypotheses.
  • Inferring meaning from texts on unfamiliar topics or situations.

Skills

  • Advanced proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing using communicative approaches.
  • Developing arguments and constructing hypotheses in the target language.
  • Identifying main ideas and significant details in complex narrative and descriptive discourse.

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ASIALANG 422 · Spring 2027

Eighth Semester Asian Language

Recorded 2026-10-14
ASIALANG 422 · Spring 2027

Eighth Semester Thai

Recorded 2026-10-14
ASIALANG 422 · Spring 2027

8th Semester Hindi-Urdu

Recorded 2026-10-14
ASIALANG 422 · Spring 2027

8th Semester Indonesian

Recorded 2026-10-14
ASIALANG 422 · Spring 2027

Eighth Semester Vietnamese

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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