Reviews of professor Mari Nakamura

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
she is the best professor. skip class you won't pass. do homework and at least try to participate. she teaches really well, responds to your emails, grades fairly. exams not hard if your study you will get a good grade. amazing lectures, vocab quizzes every other week. chapter exams and final and one group project. (oral test for JPN 201 and above)

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Nakamura took off points for not using information from the textbook, when I ONLY used information from the textbook. She condemned me for using genki example kanji because it was "kanji i have not learned," and consistently dismissed my concerns for the penalizations. Take JPN at another school, Hunter prof. are cruel and don't care about you.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Honestly I haven't had a bad experience with Hunter's Japanese department yet. Nakamura is really nice and really tries hard to make sure you pass. Her tests are fairly straight forward and projects are too; she doesn't grade too harshly either. Just participate in class and study your grammar/vocab and you'll be good

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very output focused. Barely any multiple choice if it was it was a listening activity. She doesnt give you audio to play at your own pace she only says it once. She has terrible memory says one thing in class another during the exam. The most difficult of all prof I've taken yet. Assignments are toughly graded. HW is all written no online forms

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5

There is an exam in every class, and all mistakes including exercises, and mistakes in homework will be deducted from the total score.