B2718 - Slovak Language (Third Language) II

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Languages and Technologies for Intercultural Communication (cod. 5979)

Learning outcomes

The student - understands the basic elements of Slovak language and culture - is able to understand written texts and simple oral speeches, is able to communicate at the level A2. 

Course contents

- declension of adjectives
- formal communication
- communication (at the bar, in the restaurant, in the shop)
- use of the accusative case (nouns, adjectives, pronouns...)
- modal verbs
- conjugation of irregular verbs
- prepositions

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.

Vertanová, S. – Andoková, M. – Štubňa, P. – Moyšová, S., 2015 Tlmočník ako rečník. Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo UK.

Štubňa, Pavol, 2015: Základy simultánneho tlmočenia. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského.

Štubňa, Pavol, 2018: Ekonomika pre tlmočníkov z/do taliančiny. Bratislava: Z-F LINGUA.

Šuša, Ivan, 2011: Gli aspetti comparativi e di traduzione nei rapporti interletterari slovacco-italiani. Banská Bystrica: UMB.

Šuša, Ivan: La letteratura italiana attraverso i modelli di ricezione nella cultura slovacca prima e dopo il 1989. In: InTraLinea. Online translation journal. Bologna, DIT, 2021, vol. 23. Il link: https://www.intralinea.org/current

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) etc

Office hours

See the website of Zuzana Kubusova