28575 - Japanese Language and Culture I

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.  They also familiarize themselves with some aspects of the Japanese Culture.  In the second semester, the students learn how to use the computer in Japaneese (until the end of the course, they should be able to write compositions with the computer).

Readings/Bibliography

Libri di testo
Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese (Japan Times)
Genki I Work Book (Japan Times)

• Two copies of the textbook and one copy of the workbook are available for the external use in Ruffili Library; another copy of each of the textbook and the workbook is available for the internal use.

Optional references
< Dizionari >
Dizionario giapponese-italiano, italiano-giapponese (Zanichelli)
Dizionario Tascabile Italiano-Giapponese/Giapponese-Italiano (Shogakukan)
Kodansha's Furigana English-Japanese Dictionary (Kodansha)
The Starter Oxford Japanese Dictionary

< Grammatica >
Matilde Mastrangelo, Naoko Ozawa & Mariko Saito (2006).  Grammatica giapponese.  (HOEPLI)

Teaching methods

lectures, exercises

Assessment methods

- written and oral exams
- short compositions

Teaching tools

lectures, audio aides, computer aides

Office hours

See the website of Motoko Ueyama