Oriental Languages and Cultures

Lessons in grammar, practice, translation, and laboratory aimed at consolidating the advanced level. Translations on contemporary themes.

Prerequisites Knowledge of the Japanese language at the level of a Bachelor's degree in Japanese language and translation

Per il Primo anno: M. OKA et al., Tobira: Gateway to Advanced Japanese -Learning Through Content and Multimedia, Tokyo, Kurosio Publishers, 2009 ISBN: 978-4-87424-447-0 M. TSUTSUI et al., Tobira: Grammar Power: Exercises for Mastery, Tokyo, Kurosio Publishers, 2012 ISBN: 978-4-87424-570-5 M. OKA et al., Tobira: Power Up Your KANJI: 800 Basic KANJI as a Gateway to Advanced Japanese, Tokyo, Kurosio Publishers, 2010 ISBN: 978-4-87424-487-6 C0081 Miho Tokimoto, Nuovi sentieri per la lingua giapponese. Nihongo atarashii komichi, Aracne, Roma, 2022 Per il secondo anno: Dekiru nihongo kyōzai kaihatsu project, Shimada K.(a cura di), Dekiru nihongo: chūkyū honsatsu,Tokyo, Alc, 2013 ISBN: 9784757422780 Matsuda H., Kameda M., Tēma betsu Jōkyū de manabu nihongo (santeiban-third edition), Tokyo, Kenkyūsha, 2016 ISBN: 9784327384746 Dekiru nihongo kyōzai kaihatsu project, Shimada K.(a cura di), Dekiru nihongo: chūkyū kotoba-hyōgen workbook,Tokyo, Alc, 2018 ISBN: 9784893589477 Miho Tokimoto, Nuovi sentieri per la lingua giapponese. Nihongo atarashii komichi, Aracne, Roma, 2022

Frontal lectures

Written exam consisting of grammar and translation exercises, related to the program explained in the course, preparatory to the oral test; final evaluation in the context of an oral exam. The grammar part includes: exercises related to vocabulary recognition; exercises in which one has to complete sentences with agglutinative particles, nouns, verbs in the correct form, grammatical expressions; multiple-choice exercises designed to test knowledge of grammatical structures and conversational expressions; reading and comprehension; elaboration of short compositions using the studied structures and expressions. The translation part consists of a passage to be translated from Japanese into Italian, with the use of dictionaries, to test comprehension and the ability to render grammatical structures into Italian. Both tests must be passed with a passing grade. The written test, preparatory to admission to the oral, does not average the grade the student gets in the oral. In the oral test, the student is asked: to read a passage, from those studied in class, and to answer questions about the content read; to engage in a conversation aimed at verifying the maturation of the language skills covered in the course; and to perform some exercises from the book. In the oral test, the student's ability to correctly apply the grammatical structures studied will also be assessed in different conversational contexts.

Frontal lectures with in-class exercises. Weekly assignment of homework and corrected by teachers via the Classroom platform.