JAPANESE LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION 1

Knowledge and understanding: students will be able to read and understand passages on familiar daily topics written in basic vocabulary and kanji.

Students will be able to listen and comprehend basic conversations patterns encountered in daily life and generally follow their contents.

Knowledge of 100 kanji and 800 words of general use.

Applying knowledge and understanding: the students will be able to apply autonomously and originally the achieved skills and to connect with daily life context (asking or giving informations, environment descriptions, basic dialogue, reading and writing skills).

Making judgments: comprehension and prodution of data and informations. The students will approach to the Japanese language and culture free from any ethnocentric perspective.

Communication skills:the achievement of communication skills will be reinforced by class and laboratory activities and simulations of ordinary life contexts connected to familiar topics and immediate needs.

Learning skills: alongside the class and laboratory activities, the students will also carry out individual activities aimed at improving thei analysis skills and reinforcing their reading, writing, listening, speaking and translation skills.

Face to face activities. Laboratory excercise, individual activities.

Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

Introduction and consolidation of the Japanese writing systems, basic morphology, syntax and phonology. Reading, listening, writing, speaking and translation skills will be the main activities based on the textbooks. The course will adopt also audio and visual material aimed to male the students get familiar with topics related to Japanese culture.

Textbooks used for class activities

1) Silvana De Maio, Carolina Negri, Junichi Oue (curr.), Corso di lingua giapponese, Vol. I, Hoepli, Milano, 2007,

2) Silvana De Maio, Carolina Negri, Junichi Oue (curr.), Corso di lingua giapponese, Vol. II, Hoepli, Milano, 2007,

Additional reference materials will be distributed during class activities
or available on Studium digital platform.

Recommended grammar books for individual study

Seiichi Makino, Michio Tsutsui A dictionary of basic Japanese grammar, The Japan Times, Tokyo, 1986.

Matilde Mastrangelo, Naoko Ozawa, Mariko Saito, Grammatica giapponese, Hoepli, Milano 2006.

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its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of
their content can be copied.
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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.