Hindi Ii and Mediation

This course aims to introduce grammar topics not covered by the first-year course, so as to allow students to expand their expressive and communication skills. The main goal is to teach students how to produce and manage more complex communications, in terms of both vocabulary and syntax. To this end, the course aims to significantly expand the students' expressive skills, by providing them with the tools to understand heterogeneous oral communications and to translate (by using a bilingual dictionary) different types of written texts, such as articles, literary works, leaflets, manuals, etc. Another core objective of this second-year course is to consolidate students' ability to understand the ideological and sociolinguistic relevance of lexical choices made by Hindi speakers.

By the end of the course, students should be able to combine the theoretical knowledge of Hindi grammar with the ability to read and understand texts that do use technical and specialised language. Students should have acquired the basic syntactic structures of the language, and should therefore be able to recognise them in written texts, and use them in their oral and written communications. Students should have also acquired an effective study method, allowing them to assimilate the theoretical topics studied and to translate them into expressive and communication skills. This method should also enable them to continue studying Hindi on their own, by analysing texts of different nature, watching films, listening to music and, generally speaking, making use of the wide range of resources available online. Finally, students should have developed a method to memorise the rich Hindi vocabulary, and should be able to understand the sociolinguistic relevance of lexical choices made by Hindi speakers.