Russian I and Mediation

The aim of the course is to acquire basic theoretical and applied knowledge of the Russian language. After a historical-linguistic introduction to the origins of the Russian language and its major stages of development, the focus will shift towards reflection on morphosyntactic structures and the acquisition of basic vocabulary (as specified in the detailed program). The student will be encouraged to develop linguistic competence from an intercultural perspective, in line with the objectives of the course, acquiring basic mediation skills. The course aims to achieve communicative competences as defined by the A1/A1+ level of the Common European Framework of Reference, which identifies linguistic competence at this level as related to practical communicative tasks, both productive and receptive, such as talking about oneself and people close to them and engaging in simple communication with a cooperative interlocutor.

At the end of the first year of the course, the student will be able to recognize the main stages of the development of the Russian language and place them diachronically. They will be familiar with the basic forms of nouns, adjectives, pronoun declension, and verb conjugation. In terms of active and passive linguistic skills, they will be capable of understanding and interacting in everyday communicative situations, reading short texts (announcements, notices, billboards), composing short written texts (forms, postcards), understanding simple questions and brief conversations, and describing aspects of their own life in a simple manner (A1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference). They will also be able to translate simple texts from Russian to Italian and vice versa, both in written and oral form. Additionally, they will be able to perform simple mediation tasks orally and in writing from L1 to L2 and vice versa.