- Docente: Motoko Ueyama
- Credits: 4
- SSD: L-OR/22
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Applied cross-language Communication (cod. 0545)
Learning outcomes
Course contents
This course concentrates on the use of the language in acutual
communicative situations. By the end of the course, the
students will learn two of the three Japanese writing systems
(hiragana and katakana) and some characters of the third
(kanji). The students will also learn the basics of Japanese
grammar and be able to conduct basic conversations, read and write
simple Japanese texts.
Readings/Bibliography
Textbooks
- Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese (Japan Times)
- Genki I Work Book (Japan Times)
- The copies of the introduction and the first two lessons of the textbooks are available in potineria (Via Oberdan). Look for the folder Lingua Giapponese
- In the second or third week of October, a representative of
Italia Shobo, Japanese bookstore in Firenze, will come to
the SSLMIT to sell textbooks directly to the students. The
schedule of the sales will be announced during the lectures.
Dizionari
- Dizionario giapponese-italiano, italiano-giapponese (Zanichelli)
- Dizionario Tascabile Italiano-Giapponese/Giapponese-Italiano (Shogakukan)
- Kodansha's Furigana English-Japanese Dictionary
- The Starter Oxford Japanese Dictionary
- Yoko Kubota. (1989). Grammatica di Giapponese Moderno. (Cafoscarina)
- Matilde Mastrangelo, Naoko Ozawa & Mariko Saito (2006). Grammatica giapponese. (HOEPLI)
Teaching methods
lectures, exercises
Assessment methods
writing assignments, written exam, oral exam
Teaching tools
lectures, audio aides, computer aides
Office hours
See the website of Motoko Ueyama