Let's understand Central European Slavic languages (beginners) - AJVES00477

• Title: Let's understand Central European Slavic languages (beginners)
• Guaranteed by: Department of Ethnology and Central European and Balkan Studies (21-UESEBS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Level: specialized
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Grégoire Labbé, Ph.D.
• Class: A - Mezioborová nabídka VP: Lingvistika; Exchange - 09.1 Modern EC Languages; Exchange - 09.3 Linguistics; Exchange - 09.7 Less Widely Taught Languages

Aim of the course

Last update: Mgr. Grégoire Labbé, Ph.D. (31.08.2018)

Our aim is to provide an overview of the main Central European Slavic languages to English-speaking students coming in the context of an university exchange.

We will see how those languages look like, what makes them special, and how it is possible to understand them with a limited knowledge.

We will learn to read them and we will see to what extent English can help to their understanding.

We will have a look at their grammar and provide some learning strategies.

The material will be useful to anyone who wants to get to know Czech, and also some of its closest languages, such as Croatian, Slovene, Polish or Slovak.

At the end of the semester, it should be possible to read and understand in a basic way these languages in their written form.

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Grégoire Labbé, Ph.D. (12.10.2018)

  Lesson 1: Reading of Czech, Slovakian, Croatian and Slovenian language

  Lesson 2: Reading of Polish. Learning to read Polish from the previously acquired knowledge

  Lesson 3: Presentation of the Slavic grammatical system

  Lesson 4: The nouns and their gender

  Lesson 5: Understanding of the affixes

  Lesson 6: Adjectives, adverbs and pronouns

  Lesson 7: The verbal system