Advanced Chinese language 2 and translation
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- Assessment methods
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Students attending this course are required to have certified a level B1+/B2 Chinese language proficiency (HSK V).
The final exam consists in a an written and an oral part.
The written part is composed of different sections:
- A listening comprehension test;
- A dictation and writing exercise of words and short sentences;
- A Chinese-Italian business translation test
- A composition of a business e-mail in Chinese.
- A Chinese-Italian translation test based on materials studied during the course;
- An Italian- Chinese translation text based on materials studied during the workshops.
The oral part will consist in the reading and translation (Chinese-Italian) of texts studied during the course.
The main goal of the Advanced Chinese and Translation I course is to bring the students’ language skills from the intermediate to the advanced level. In addition to expanding the students’ working vocabulary and their understanding of complex syntactic structures, this course puts the students on track to pass the HSK VI exam (which Chinese Hanban has determined to be a C2 level), certifying a B2/C1 proficiency level according to the Common European Framework. At the end of the course, the students will have learned how to employ up to 3.500 high-frequency characters and 5.000 high-frequency words in a variety of different contexts. They will be able to express themselves correctly both in oral and written form in everyday situations, competently managing conversations at the upper-intermediate level. A key objective will be to provide strong translation skills, with specific regard to expressions and sentence patterns typically used in formal and literary written Chinese, which are very common in Chinese writing pertaining to politics, law, commerce, and a great number of socially and culturally relevant topics.
By reading and translating texts of an increasing degree of complexity, students will acquire and learn how to use specialized lexicon and sentence patterns that will enable them to construct complex discourses in speech and in writing on a wide variety of topics regarding everyday China. In addition to their Advanced Chinese textbook, the students will also study Business Chinese and texts drawn from contemporary publications on topics related to politics, law, business, tourism, and culturally or socially relevant issues. Along with the course’s lessons, two parallel translation workshops of 60 class hours each will enable students to hone their translation skills in the two different interdisciplinary curricula offered within the Master’s course in Modern Languages for International Communication and Cooperation, i.e.: juridical and economic translation; and linguistic, cultural and juridical mediation. During the workshops, the workshop teacher will offer a set of study materials, selected from real documents in actual use in a variety of relevant contexts.
Mandatory texts:
Masini F. et al., Il cinese per gli italiani –意大利人学汉语 Yidaliren xue Hanyu. Vol. 3 Corso Avanzato, con CD-ROM, Milano, Hoepli, ultima edizione (ISBN-10: 882033688X; ISBN-13: 978-8820336882).
Leonesi B., Cinese & affari. Manuale pratico di cinese commerciale, con CD-ROM, Milano, ultima edizione (ISBN-10: 8820347989; ISBN-13: 978-8820347987).
Abbiati M., R. Zheng, Dialogare in cinese 2 汉语交际口语Hanyu jiaoji kouyu – Corso di lingua colloquiale, con CD-ROM, Venezia, Cafoscarina – ultima edizione disponibile (ISBN-10: 8875433003; ISBN-13: 978-8875433000).
Additional materials will be published on the course e-learning webpage.
Primarily conventional lectures, with occasional workshops on specific topics.
- Attendance to class is highly recommended.
- Non attending students should contact the course teachers.
- Day, place, and hours of teacher-student counselling will be agreed upon with the students.
- Additional materials and information will be published on the e-learning webpage of the course (LINGUA CINESE AVANZATO 2 E TRADUZIONE - Lingua cinese avanzato 2 e traduzione-1 AA20-21 A016).