JAPANESE LANGUAGE

Knowledge and understanding:

The course aims to give the students upper intermediate-level skills in the Japanese language. Knowledge of 800 kanji and 3000 words of general use. Reading, writing and dialogic skills connected to a wide range of cultural and specific topics of an intermediate degree of complexity. Knowledge of main linguistic patterns (i.e. honorific, humble, gender, age, formal, informal).

Applying knowledge and understanding:

The students will be able to use the achieved skills autonomously and to connect them with daily life, social, professional, or academic contexts.

Making judgments:

Comprehension and production of data and information. The students will approach the study of the Japanese language and culture free from any ethnocentric perspective and with a reasonable degree of autonomy.

Communication skills:

Class and laboratory activities will enhance the communication skills connected to a wide range of topics of medium complexity.

Learning skills:

Alongside the class and laboratory activities, the students will also carry out individual activities aimed at improving analytical skills and reinforcing reading, writing, listening, speaking and translation skills.

Hirai Etsuko, Miwa Sachiko, Chūkyū wo manabō. Nihongo no bunkei to hyogen 56, 3A Corporation, 2 Edizione, Tokyo 2019

Mayumi Oka, Michio Tsutsui, Junko Kondo, Shoko Emori, Yoshiro Hanai, Satoru Ishikawa, Jōkyū he no tobira. Kuroshio Publishers, 2009.

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