Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature straniere e Culture moderne

The course aims to provide intermediate and upper-intermediate knowledge of the Japanese language.
In particular: grammar skills, reading and comprehension of texts related to the business and cultural field; writing and email communication skills; oral production.
At the end of the course students acquire skills in the four communicative skills provided by the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference), placing themselves at level B2 - C1 (level N3 towards level N2 of the JLPT - Japanese Language Proficiency Test).

To complete the knowledge of the grammatical structures of the intermediate level Japanese language and their functioning (in addition to the 41 bunkei present in the main manual, other similar ones will be introduced).
To complete the knowledge of the writing system (1500 kanji or more) and the vocabulary of the Japanese language at intermediate and advanced levels.
To know and understand the written and oral register variations of the Japanese language at intermediate and advanced level, keigo, the language of communication in the working world.
To know and understand the specific concepts and terminology to describe the phenomena studied in a scientific way.

For the A/A 2020-2021 will be adopted a "mixed" teaching mode that provides frontal teaching and streaming of the same.

On the MOODLE will be uploaded materials used in class for presentations and more.
It is NOT foreseen the recording of the lessons in order to enhance the importance
direct participation (in presence or streaming), but every teachig material will be uploaded and will be available on Moodle - audio-video materials. 

There will be frontal lessons in presence and streaming of grammar and comprehension of texts in the manuals in the material delivered to the lesson and uploaded online; e-mail writing exercises, application of grammar and conversation in Japanese, Japanese business listening exercises.

The "Japanese Language 1" course is divided into two semesters (annual course) and will be finally recorded by Prof. Anna SPECCHIO.

The acquisition of learning results will be verified by the following methods:
1) Written examination to verify the skills of: grammar, reading and comprehension, translation and written production (written examination of the lettorato).
2) Oral examination to verify the skills of comprehension and oral production (oral examination of the lettorato).
3) Final language exam (exam of Prof. SPECCHIO's course).

Students will have to take the three tests in order: the passing of each test is preparatory and indispensable to the next one. The final grade will be obtained by means of the average between the mark of the lettorato exam (written and oral average) and the mark of the language exam. 

Attendance is not mandatory, but strongly recommended. A constant participation and an assiduous commitment demonstrated through the homeworks and other tasks can lead to the addition of 1 point in the overall final assessment of the examination.

ASSESSMENT

The global knowledge of the topics, together with a very good ability of critical analysis and mastery in the use of terminology will be evaluated as excellence; a manualistic knowledge without solid interpretative support will be evaluated in a positive but not high way. Repeated and repeated difficulties in using the appropriate expressions and answers that are not exhaustive or confusing will result in a negative evaluation.

The lessons will also be delivered in the form of live distance learning, and support materials will be uploaded to the Moodle platform.

36 hours of intermediate grammar and reading comprehension 

The course aims to provide notions of intermediate grammar through the study of bunkei of the N3 and N2 levels of JLPT, and will read and translate the texts in the manual plus additional material provided in class or uploaded to the moodle platform. There will also be mini texts of grammar and comprehension in class.
Lessons of this part will be conducted on Thursday classes. 

18 hours of Japanese business

The course aims to provide notions of Japanese business communication and email writing in Japanese, corporate and not. You will use a pantry that will be provided by the teacher that contains new and original materials, on which you will work continuously. 
Homework or mini test will be assigned periodically in class.

Lessons of this part will be conducted on Friday classes. 

In the second semester there may be seminar classes with Japanese teachers, or business hours may increase if you can finish the grammar in less hours than expected.

Please always check this page and the moodle page for updating.

The updated bibliography will be uploaded the first week of October.

MANUALS

1) 『中級から学ぶ日本語・テーマ別』（三訂版）Chūkyū kara manabu nihongo : tēmabetsu. Matsuda Hiroshi 松田浩志 ; Kameda Miho 亀田美保 (edited by)
Tōkyō 東京: Kenkyūsha 研究社, 2019 (14th reprint of the 2014 edition)
(Unit 11-20)

2) BUSINESS JAPANESE MATERIALS AA 2020-2021, uploaded on Moodle before the
beginning of the lessons

3) 小林一雅Kobayashi Kazumasa（2014）「村上春樹から学ぶグローバルコミュニケーションズ」（『近畿大学紀要 ,文学・芸術・文化 : 近畿大学文芸学部論集, 2014年第25巻第2号、ページ190－169）(Disponibile tra i materiali OnLine)

LETTORATO TEXTBOOKS ARE WRITTEN ON THE LETTORATO WEBPAGE - STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO REGISTER

RECOMMENDED GRAMMARS

Matilde Mastrangelo, Naoko Ozawa, Mariko Saito, Grammatica giapponese (second edition), Milan, Hoepli, 2016
Makino; Tsutsui, A dictionary of Intermediate Japanese grammar, The Japan Times 1995
Makino; Tsutsui, A dictionary of Advanced Japanese grammar, The Japan Times 2008

We recommend the purchase of an electronic dictionary if you do not already have one.  

Recommended electronic dictionary:
CASIO model "XD-Y7400" (http://casio.jp/exword/products/XD-Y7400/ ) or older model of the 7400 series (XD-D7400 etc.)

Students interested in including Lingua Giapponese 1 Magistrale in their studies are warmly invited to enrol in the course, in order to facilitate communication with the teacher (thanks to the mailing list). 

LANGUAGE LESSONS (I semester)

(II semester classes will be updated by the end of 2020)

Lettorato Hours are available on the LETTORATO webpage.

Students are required to register to the classrooms.