JAPANESE LANGUAGE 1 MOD.1

In this course students make the passage from intermediate to advanced level Japanese. All four linguistic activities are trained (reading, writing, speaking, listening). Students critically study authentic Japanese materials that related to their academic specialization.
We start from a level of Japanese that corresponds to ECFR B2.

Students successfully completing this course will be able read, comprehend and discuss Japanese materials. They will be able to take a stance towards issues that relate to their academic specialization and interact in formal settings.

Participants should have a high intermediate proficiency in Japanese. They need to prepare and repeat content taught in class and demonstrate intellectual flexibility.

Discussion of texts on multilingualism and multiculturalism in Japan as well as translation exercises.
Exercises with textbooks and other materials, text comprehension tutorials.
Listening exercises, oral production and interaction. Reading and discussing texts.
Text comprehension exercises.
Conversation.

Dizionari Online Japanese-Japanese, Japanese-English, Japanese-Italian
Kenkyusha's, New Japanese-English Dictionary, Tokyo, Kenkyusha 1985.
Dizionario Shogakukan Italiano-Giapponese, Tokyo, Shogakukan 1985.
Kojien, Tokyo, Iwanami Shoten 1993.
Kadokawa Shinjigen, Tokyo, Kadokawa 1993.
Bunka Chukyu Nihongo, vol. 2, Tokyo, Bonjinsh, 1997.
Kawahara, Toshiaki, Tagengo shakai ga yatte kita, Tokyo, Kuroshio 2004.
Makino Tsutsui, A dictionary of basic Japanese grammar, Tokyo, The Japan Times 1989.
Makino Tsutsui, A dictionary of Intermediate Japanese grammar, Tokyo, The Japan Times 1995.
Makino Tsutsui, A dictionary of Advanced Japanese grammar, Tokyo, The Japan Times 2008.
Shioda Takehiro, Kawaru nihongo, soredemo kawaranai nihongo, Tokyo, Sekai Bunkasha 2023.
Tagengo-ka Genshō Kenkyū-kai, Tagengo Shakai Nihon, Tokyo, Sangensha, 2013.

There is feedback in the classroom and a weekly office hour by the three teachers. Gaps and shortcomings identified in the class and discussed during the office hour are addressed in a weekly tutorial.

written and oral

This course involves 4 written and 2 oral exams.
1. The written exam on kanji and grammar has a total of 15 points, reading comprehension 5, critical reading 5, vocabulary and translation 5, for a total of 30 points. Detailled information on how to best prepare for these written exams will be given during the course and it will be posted on the course's website.
2. The two oral exams are each valued with 30 points, and the final grade for the oral exam is the medium between the two exams.
3. The final vote for this course (written + oral) is the medium of 1 (written) + 2 (oral).

Presentations, discussion, group-work, frontal lessons.

This course requires concentrated efforts and the motivation to take the difficult step from intermediate to advanced level Japanese.

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development