JAPANESE LANGUAGE 1

The course aims to provide the students with intermediate-advanced Japanese language skills, between the N3 and N2 levels of Japanese Language Proficiency Test, and comparable to the B2 level of the CEFR as regards syntactic skills, oral comprehension and communication skills.

At the end of the course, students should achieve: knowledge of at least 500 kanji and 3000 words of general use; improvement of grammar skills and interpersonal communication skills on topics with a variety of specific contents; knowledge of the variety of linguistic registers (formal, casual, honorific, humble, gender). The course is also aimed to improve reading strategies and comprehension skills, as well as composition and translation skills on specific contents.

Hirai Etsuko, Miwa Sachiko, Chūkyū e ikō, 3A Corporation, Tokyo, 2004.

Hirai Etsuko, Miwa Sachiko, Chūkyū o manabō, 3A Corporation, Tokyo, 2007.

AA.VV., Bunka chūkyū nihongo I, Bonjinsha, Tokyo,2005. Bunka chūkyū nihongo I, renshū mondaishū Bonjinsha, Tokyo, 2009.

Altro materiale di riferimento:

Makino Seiichi, Tsutsui Michio,A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar, The Japan Times, Tokyo, 1995. Makino Seiichi, Tsutsui Michio,A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar, The Japan Times, Tokyo, 2008. M. Mastrangelo, Naoko Ozawa, Mariko Saitō, Grammatica giapponese, Hoepli, Milano, 2006.

Further didactic material will be provided by the teachers.