69543 - Slovak Language and Culture

Learning outcomes

Student can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. He/she can produce simple connected text on topics that are familiar or of personal interest.

Course contents

- Weather

- Joys and worries of a graduate (graduation, looking for a job)

- Housing is a question of priorities (real estate agency, city vs. countryside, famous houses and architects)

- Yesterday and today (generation issues, changes around us, etiquette)

- That´s how I live, that´s who I am (character types, lifestyle, internet friendships)

- Let´s go on holiday (travel agency, travelling and holiday, complaint)

- Slovak and Italian Relations in Literature

Grammar:

- Grammar Revision

- Futurum. Aspect

- Particles (naozaj, vôbec, konečne, určite, mimochodom, však, aspoň,možno, tiež)

- Conjunctions (nielen – ale aj, lebo, pretože, preto, ani, alebo, ako, než, ale, a preto, a tak, a predsa, a to) 

- Verb aspect (perfective, imperfective verbs)

- Accusative case vs. locative case

- Accusative case vs. instrumental case

- Reflexive sa/si (I.-VI.)

Readings/Bibliography

Nemčíková, Zuzana - Šuša, Ivan, 2022. Corso di Lingua Slovacca. Milano: Hoepli.

Kamenárová, Renáta a kol., 2011: Krížom-krážom. Slovenčina B1. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského.

Kročanová-Roberts, Dagmar – Resutíková-Toppi, Barbora, 2010: Slovenčina-Slovacco-Slovak. Bologna: BUP.

Vajičková, Mária, 2005: Slovenčina pre cudzincov. Gramatické cvičenia. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského.

Šuša, Ivan, 2011: Komparatistické a prekladové aspekty v slovensko-talianskych medziliterárnych vzťahoch. Banská Bystrica: UMB.

Šuša, Ivan, 2018. Talianska literatúra v slovenskom prekladovo-recepčnom kontexte po roku 1989. Banská Bystrica. FF UMB.

Žigová, Ľudmila, 2007: Komunikácia v slovenčine. Textová príručka a cvičebnica.

Žigová, Ľudmila, 2015: Praktikum zo slovenskej gramatiky a ortografie pre cudzincov B1 - B2. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského.

Materials prepared by the teacher.

Students are encouraged to look for additional resources.

Teaching methods

The class combines didactic methods and uses different learning activities, in order to provide students with the communicative grammar of Slovak language and train all basic skills (reading, listening, writing, and speaking). Activities include revision and practice of grammar , reading and listening comprehension, oral and written summaries of texts, translations, syntactic and stylistic analysis of the texts etc.

Assessment methods

Students are required to:

Attend the classes and prepare regularly for the lessons.

Pass a final exam (written test and an oral exam*).

Any change of the requirements or evaluation procedures will be announced at the beginning of the semester.

* Topics for oral exam will be announced in advance.

Teaching tools

books, power-point presentations, audiomaterial, visual aids (grammar maps) atc.

Office hours

See the website of Zuzana Kubusova