German I

The module is aimed at both beginner and advanced students. It aims to provide language skills (grammar, listening, reading, vocabulary) of A2 level for beginner students and to consolidate / expand previous skills for advanced students. The aim of the course is for all participants to acquire knowledge and skills that will allow them to reflect on the functioning and structuring of the German language in morphological, phonological and syntactic fields.

At the end of the module, the student will be able to:
- Actively use the acquired grammatical knowledge (e.g. adjective inflection, use of verbs);
- Understand brief oral communications relating to everyday life;
- Analyze written texts and understand their contents;
- Orally answer questions on the main topics covered;
- Produce short written texts on the main topics covered;
- Recognize the types of morphemes;
- Recognize the word formation processes;
- Describe the German phonemes;
- Read words and phrases written with the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet);
- Transcribe words and phrases with the IPA;
- Recognize constituents, phrases and sentences;
- Describe the syntactic functions of the constituents;
- Explain the sentence structure according to the "Felderanalyse" model;
- Use the appropriate terminology to describe a linguistic phenomenon;
- Reflect on the peculiarities of the German language also in comparison with other languages and cultures.