Corso di laurea in Lingue e culture
dell'Asia e dell'Africa

The primary goal of the first-year language practice component is to bring students' listening and speaking skills up to the CEFR A1/A2 level of communicative competence.

The course is designed to build the phonetic foundation of the Chinese language, focusing specifically on the more challenging tones, initials, and finals. This is achieved through guided repetition and listening drills essential for mastering Putonghua (Standard Chinese).

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Handle Phonetics: reproduce the sounds and tones of Standard Chinese.
• Communicate: formulate simple sentences, hold conversations on everyday topics, and provide oral summaries of basic texts.
• Write and Memorise: know the basic rules of character stroke order and recall the vocabulary and characters learned (approximately 600 characters).
• Address Specific Themes: use the language to greet and introduce themselves, talk about their family, ask for and give personal information (phone number, address, time, date, price, age), describe a day and state of health, ask for and give directions, describe rooms/environments and locate objects, and make and respond to requests and invitations.
• Express Emotions: manifest desires, intentions, gratitude, surprise, disappointment, and regret.

Course Content: Study of Units 1–16 (inclusive) from the textbook, Dialogare in cinese 1.

The course employs a combination of lectures and guided practice sessions, including exercises in listening, repetition, conversation, and writing. The teaching approach utilises the primary textbook, supported by supplementary materials and links supplied by the instructor.

The language practice component (Lettorato) includes a written and an oral examination, which will take place concurrently with the written and oral components of the Chinese Language Year II exam. The written test consists of a dictation of sentences that must be written in Chinese characters.

The written test is a prerequisite (or 'hurdle') for the oral exam.

PLEASE NOTE:

Exemption Tests are scheduled throughout the academic year. All students who have completed the learning activities according to the methods and deadlines set out by the course and indicated by the instructor are eligible to take the exemption tests (please consult the instructions on Moodle).

Exemptions Offered:

• Written Language Practice Test (Dictation): 2 exemption tests. Students must pass both to be fully exempt from the dictation component of the final written exam.

ORAL EXAM OBJECTIVES:

Students should be able to:

• Read and translate the texts (as necessary).
• Answer questions related to the texts in Chinese.
• Deliver an oral summary of the texts in Chinese, showing appropriate language skills.
• Hold conversations in Chinese on course topics.

Supplementary materials and links will be provided throughout the course.

Da definire.