Japanese Iii and Mediation

This course aims to complete the student's training in basic written and spoken Japanese. It is reserved for students who have already studied Japanese for no less than 240-260 hours and have a good command of Italian. Notably, the goal of the course is for students to:
- learn approximately 150 new ideographic characters (kanji), for a comprehensive knowledge of 500 characters (for reading and writing);
- have a good grasp of the fundamental vocabulary, i.e. the complete vocabulary included in Units 1-50 of the textbook Minna no Nihongo I-II Honsatsu (2nd edition), just for reading purposes;
- master grammar in all its branches (morphology, syntax and the main periphrastic constructions);
- be able to use the honorific language KEIGO.
Communication skills for everyday life will result in the ability to read non-specialised texts and to correctly write by hand the words studied.
Students will learn to analyse and translate non-specialised texts at an intermediate-advanced level with regard to syntax, and understand the overall communicative content as well as its different nuances. In terms of communication skills for everyday life, with regard to written and oral production, students will be able to: automatically use the acquired structures, as well as verbal and periphrastic forms, in a correct way; choose the best morphosyntactic structures according to the different communicative situations, also considering the honorific language; express complex thoughts in terms of grammatical tense and aspect. With regard to listening skills, students will be able to understand oral speech regardless of the speaker's speed and within the limits of the grammar learnt at a theoretical level, particularly in situations that require the use of KEIGO.

Students will become familiar with the lexical and morphological elements of the main Japanese expressions at a basic level, as well as with the general principles of their construction. They will learn to identify, understand and use the most appropriate sentence structures and expressions in communicative situations of medium complexity. The proficiency level to be reached is slightly above N4 of the JLPT scale (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) and corresponds approximately to B1-B2 under the CEFR.