Hindi Iii and Mediation

This course has three main goals: to consolidate the students' theoretical knowledge; to improve their command of some syntactic and grammar structures; to significantly expand their understanding of the vocabulary, not only in terms of number of words recognised, but also of the linguistic and historical dynamics that played a role in the formation of words. Particularly, the third-year course aims to guide students in translating theoretical knowledge into oral and written expressive skills. Students should be able to understand different types of oral communications and to produce oral and written summaries of texts, films and media articles.

By the end of the course, students should be able to master a vocabulary wide enough to enable them to interact in various types of conversations, and to express their opinion on everyday matters, as well as subject-specific topics, in an effective and persuasive way. They should have also acquired good oral comprehension skills and a solid translation method. They should be familiar with the various contexts where a certain vocabulary can or cannot be used, so as to adapt their lexical choices to their interlocutors' socio-cultural peculiarities. Students should have acquired a study method and achieved an understanding of the syntactic, grammar and lexical structures of the language, so as to be able to continue studying Hindi on their own, acquiring new lexical and syntactic skills and consolidating what they already know. Finally, students should be able to translate from Italian into Hindi, and vice versa, different types of communications and messages, to facilitate communication and comprehension between Hindi and Italian speakers.