B3452 - CHINESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE – FORLI'

Learning outcomes

The course, taught in English, should lead the student to know the basic grammatical and lexical structures of the Chinese language and to possess an elementary linguistic competence both oral and written that enables him to interact in a limited number of daily communicative situations.

Course contents

The course provides basic skills for writing, reading, understanding simple texts, producing everyday dialogues with basic communicative functions.


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


In the part of the readership, students will delve into the aspects of reading and writing and phonetics, and will develop dialogic and communicative skills.


NB: REMEMBER THE ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT OF 70%

Readings/Bibliography

Text from the Confucius Institute for the HSK

Teaching methods

frontal lessons

Assessment methods

ongoing tests


final profit exams

Teaching tools

Texts, photocopies, dictionaries, audiovisual and multimedia supports, ppt

Office hours

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