GIU0764-1 - Lingua cinese avanzato 1 e traduzione-1

This course is highly interactive and student centered. They will be exposed to rich authentic text and multi-media materials and engage in conversations pertaining to real-life situations in Chinese language speaking societies. In mean time, students will also be exposed to business Chinese, on topics such as writing business emails, conducting business phone calls, establish business relations, requesting information, negotiation etc. The core session is learner-centered, in which Chinese is the language of instruction.

Along with the core lessons, two parallel translation workshops of 60 class hours will enable students to hone their translation skills in the two 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.

One of the key objectives of the practice session is 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.