86685 - Chinese Language and Culture I

Learning outcomes

The course provides the basic skills for writing, reading, understanding simple texts, the production of everyday dialogues with basic communication functions.

Course contents

The course provides the basic skills for writing, reading, understanding simple texts, the production of everyday dialogues with basic communication functions.


Specifically, the student will learn to greet, introduce themselves, indicate and ask for origin and nationality, talk about their hobbies and interests, indicate possession, express intentions and needs, describe character, indicate age.
From a grammatical point of view, affirmative, interrogative and negative sentences will be presented, the verb to be and to have, interrogative pronouns, adverbs of frequency, constructions with series verbs, modal verbs, classifiers, adjectival verbs, some indirect complements .


In the lettorato part, students will deepen the aspects of reading-writing and phonetics, and will develop dialogic and communicative skills.


NB: PLEASE REMEMBER THE OBLIGATION OF ATTENDANCE EQUAL TO 70%

Readings/Bibliography

For the class lectures:

Parliamo cinese. Corso di lingua e cultura cinese: 1 di Federico Masini, Gloria Gabbianelli, Zhang Tongbing, Wang Rui. Hoepli Editore

 

Culture:

Castorina Miriam, La cultura cinese. Manuale di mediazione linguistica, Hoepli, 2011;

 

Writing:

Lioi Tiziana, Introduzione alla scrittura cinese. I radicali e i caratteri cinesi dei livelli 1 e 2 dell'esame HSK, Hoepli, 2016.

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