B0852 - Netherlandian Language and Linguistic Exercises 1

Academic Year 2024/2025

Course contents

Conversation lessons and participatory activities with homework prepared in advance (“flipped classroom”) aimed at a basic level of proficiency with the ability to: present oneself, ask and respond (the simple sentence, affirmative and interrogative, present tense, negation, common interjections), describe images and situations (continuous tense), count, tell the time, describe the weather, name the days of the week, express necessity and possibility (sentences with auxiliary verbs), express preference, agreement or disagreement and opinions, use future tense. The saillant phonological characteristics of the language (short and long vowels, diftongs) as well as the morphological (compound nouns and verbs), ortographical (open and closed syllables, single and double vowels and consonants) and syntactical (inversion, phrase syntax) are practiced again and again in each lesson.

Readings/Bibliography

D. Ross, E. Koenraads, Grammatica neerlandese di base, Hoepli, Milano 2007. D. Ross, L. Berghout, M. Mertens, R. Dagnino, Mooi zo! Corso di lingua neerlandese, Hoepli, Milano 2017.

Text and audio samples published online on Virtuale.

Teaching methods

Participatory excercises, partly prepared at home (“flipped classroom”) and group work in the classroom.

Assessment methods

Oral and written exams. Continuous assessment.

Office hours

See the website of Marco Prandoni