Hindi I and Mediation

This course aims to provide students with an understanding of the fundamental structures of the Hindi language, so that they are able to identify and reproduce the different elements of the sentences and their syntactic disposition. By introducing the basics of Hindi, this course will guide students in developing communication skills - in terms of both language reception and production - enabling them to participate in conversations about everyday topics at an elementary level, in order to fulfil basic communication needs. Finally, the course aims to promote the students' interest and sensitivity towards the socio-cultural aspects of linguistic structures, so that they can identify and adopt the most appropriate lexical, syntactic and grammatical constructions based on the context and the interlocutor's social status.

By the end of the course, students should be able to master the devanāgarī alphabet, both in terms of identification of the letters (whether isolated, in words or in consonant combinations), and of reproduction of the sounds associated with vowels and consonants. They should also be able to identify such sounds when pronounced by others. Students should be able to recognise the grammatical, syntactic and lexical structures studied both in oral communications and written texts, and should have developed automatisms in the use of certain grammatical and syntactic structures. Moreover, they should be able to participate in conversations at an elementary level and understand simple oral/written communications. Lastly, by the end of the first year of the programme, students should be familiar with the fundamental grammatical and syntactic structures of the Hindi language, and have identified a study method enabling them to fill any educational gap related to the topics discussed in class