In addition to our trilingual courses we offer extensive courses during the semester in Arabic, Chinese, French, Ladin, Russian and Spanish.
Eligibility: students, alumni, full-tenured professors, researchers, AR, employees of unibz and students of the Studium Generale. In the case of any free spaces, also employees of partner research institutions in the province of Bozen-Bolzano can also register.
Non-traditional students, senior student cardholders, as well as external participants can only participate in the following courses: Arabic, Chinese, Russian, and Ladin.
The alumni, i.e. the graduates of unibz, can attend all courses on offer (with the exception of the three-week intensive courses) for a fixed fee of € 100 per academic year (registration form alumni).
External participants are required to pay a course fee (registration form externals).
Check the charges regulation for all course participants.
Students can register through MySNS, accessing the section Language Centre > Language Courses.
Prerequisites: No beginner course, completion of A1.1 level course is a prerequisite.
Schedule: 40 hours, Sat 9.00-13:00 - Start date: 23/03/2024
Delivery mode: online via MS Teams
COURSE CONTENT
Talk about family, marital status, work, nationality, studies; cardinal numerals up to 100.
Grammar
Verbs in present (singular and dual forms); dual forms of nouns, adjectives, personal und possessive pronouns; genitive contraction; nominal clause negation; negation of the present verb.
Textbooks
Textbook and required course material will be announced on the first day of class.
Prerequisites: No beginner course, completion of A1.1 level course is a prerequisite.
Schedule: 40 hours, Sat 9-13 - Start date: 23/03/2024
Delivery mode: online via MS Teams
COURSE CONTENT
Beginner Chinese language course for participants with little prior knowledge. Basic elements of grammar and syntax; phonetic exercises; writing exercises with Chinese characters. New words to learn: about 100-150.
Textbooks
Textbook and required course material will be announced on the first day of class.
Prerequisites: No beginner course, completion of A1.1 level course is a prerequisite.
Schedule: 40 hours, Sat 9-13 - Start date: 23/03/2024
Delivery mode: online via MS Teams
COURSE CONTENT
Shopping and eating out; free time activities; jobs and work duties; telephone conversations.
Communication goals
Asking for and giving indications; asking for and understanding prices; talking about language abilities; talking and expressing opinions about free time activities; providing information with numbers, times of day, the days of the week, and months; talking about jobs and work; participating in a telephone conversation; talking with sales clerks and cashiers; ordering at restaurants and cafés.
Grammar
The dative case and the instrumental case for singular nouns with and without prepositions; the nominative, genitive and accusative in the plural; the genitive with quantities and amounts; the preterite form of verbs; the imperative; the verbs of motion; word order.
Textbook
D. Magnati, F. Legittimo. ДАВАЙТЕ! Comunicare in russo 1.
Corso di lingua e cultura russa. HOEPLI, Milano, 2017. ISBN: 978-88-203-7866-0
Prerequisites:No beginner course, completion of A1.1 level course is a prerequisite.
Schedule: 40 hours, Tue and Thu 18-20 - Start date: 19/03/2024
Delivery mode: online via MS Teams
COURSE CONTENT
Routine and daily life; clothes and fashion; food products; at the restaurant; past events.
Communication goals
Talk about one’s daily routine; ask about time and frequency of an action; shopping in a clothing store; get informed about food and order one’s meal at the restaurant; refer about past events.
Grammar
The present tense of pronominal verbs and of aller and sortir; question words; demonstrative pronouns and adjectives; the near future (aller + infinitive); past perfect; the liaison; the nasal vowels.
Textbook
Version Original 1 (A1), ISBN: 978 8484435600, Unità 5-8.
Prerequisites: module A2.1
Schedule: 40 hours, Mon and Wed 18-20 - Start date: 18/03/2024
Delivery mode: online via MS Teams
Topics
Famous persons, current issues, meeting someone, how to behave, francophonie.
Communication goals
Famous people: interviews, biographies und anecdotes; environment and weather forecasts; express oneself appropriately in different occasions; ‘savoir vivre’ and its rules; theatre: focus on Molière; the French-speaking world.
Grammar
Forms of the past: contrastive analysis; the relative pronouns; être en train de + infinitive; the future tense; the modal verbs, the conditional present tense; the question words and the interrogative clauses; the intonation pattern: affirmative and negative answers, etc.
Textbook
Version Original 2 (A2), ISBN: 978 8484435631, Unità 5-8.
Prerequisites: completion of module B1.1
Schedule: 30 hours, Mon 17-20 - Start date: 18/03/2024
Delivery mode: online via MS Teams
COURSE CONTENT
Written language; cinema and movies; news and media; poetry slams.
Communication goals
Write an email and short news; talk about cinema; to narrate the plot o a movie; professional life and unusual crafts; the French media; to understand the news; poetry between writing and orality.
Grammar
Impersonal verbs; indefinite verbal modes; double pronouns; the adjective position in the sentence; the indirect speech; the passive forms; direct and indirect questions and their intonation patterns; sentence rhythm, syllables and e muet; etc.
Textbook
Version Original 3 (B1), ISBN: 9788484435662, Unità 5-9.
Prerequisites: No beginner course, completion of A1.1 level course is a prerequisite.
Schedule: 40 hours, Tue and Thu 18-20 - Start date: 19/03/2024
Delivery mode: online via MS Teams
Topics and communicative goals
Introduce and describe a person’s physical appearance and personality; to speak about one’s family; give expression to one’s own tastes and preferences; to talk about the own daily routine; order something at a bar/restaurant; describe places and cities; ask for directions; to speak about past working experiences; to speak about skills and virtues.
Grammar
Present tense of some irregular verbs, reflexive verbs, prepositions and adverbs of place, préterito perfecto; some adjectives of quantity. Pronunciation of diphthongs, che and jota; narrative and expositive intonation patterns.
Textbook
1 Aula Internacional Plus ISBN: 978 84 180 32 189 - Difusión Unidad 5-9
Prerequisites: A2.1
Schedule: 40 hours, Mon and Wed 18-20 - Start date: 18/03/2024
Delivery mode: online via MS Teams
Topics and communicative goals
Free time: speaking about interesting places; to express one’s intentions and wishes; cooking: talking about diets and culinary tastes; health and wellness: the body and physical condition; to describe symptoms and illness; time: historical periods and events, to speak about different times in the past.
Grammar
Verbal forms: use of pretérito perfecto (present perfect) and pretérito indefinido (simple past) and their contrastive analysis; irregular forms of the pretérito indefinido; some special verbs and verbal constructions ( ser, querer, pensar, etc.); forms and use of the imperative; adverbial past and present expressions. Pronunciation of t and d; the accented syllable; intonation pattern in temporal sentences.
Textbook
2 Aula internacional Plus - ISBN: 978 84 180 32 202 - Difusión -
Unidad 6 - 10
Prerequisites: B1.1
Schedule: 40 hours, Sat 9-13 - Start date: 23/03/2024
Delivery mode: online via MS Teams
Topics and communicative goals
Communicative environments: communication modalities; to advise, to instruct, to support a petition; to tell an anecdote: to manifest one’s own interest, to talk about causes and effects; to discuss: to express one’s feelings. To talk about relationships, to disagree in different registers, to counterargument; details: to describe an object and its functions; to express one’s opinion: to face a problem: to analyses actions and behaviours; the mysteries of science: to formulate a hypothesis, to express doubts and insecurities.
Grammar
Indirect speech; the past perfect, tense relations in the indicative; some expressions that require different constructions with subjunctive or infinitive; some uses of the future tense, the relative sentence, the superlative. Pronunciation: interrogative intonation, the ¿ge and the jota Spelling: punctuation.
Textbook
3 Aula internacional Plus - ISBN: 978 84 180 32 226 - Difusión -
Unidad 7 - 12