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Ayumi Nobuki

Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese

Associations

Asian Studies

Roger Williams Hall,

207-786-6288 anobuki@bates.edu

Current Courses

Fall Semester 2025

Intermediate Japanese I

JPN 201

A continuation of JPN 102, the course stresses the acquisition of new and more complex spoken patterns, vocabulary building, and increasing knowledge of cultural context through role play, video, and varied reading materials. Approximately seventy-five new written characters are introduced. A range …

Upper Intermediate Japanese

JPN 305

A continuation of JPN 202, this course completes the introduction of essential Japanese syntactic forms and sentence patterns and prepares students to read, write, and discuss a range of texts in Japanese. Students continue development of oral skills through culturally realistic exercises involving …