Acquire the competence necessary to successfully deal with texts written in modern standard German. At the end of the course, students will be able to read with reasonable fluency (with the help of a bilingual German-Italian dictionary) any text written in modern standard German.
Course Prerequisites
To have very good grammatical skills of Italian language (from high school). It may be useful to have good English and Latin language skills.
Teaching Methods
Traditional frontal lessons, exercises on texts and active participation of students in the analysis and translation of the same texts. Use of multimedia equipment. The 60-hour course develops without interruption on the two modules of the first semester (September 2025- January 2026). Numerous exercises always aimed at reading only accompany the entire course.
Assessment Methods
Written test consisting of a translation into Italian of a text in modern German of about 2000 characters, of literary, historical-literary or historical-musical subject (with bilingual paper dictionary, in a time of 4 hours). Evaluation in thirtieths. German-speaking Erasmus students who intend to take the German language exam will have to demonstrate a perfect competence of the Italian language (in the written test of translation from German into Italian), as well as being able to translate into Italian an archaic German text written in the Gothic alphabet (in brilliant and extemporaneous way).
Texts
Artemio Focher, "Leggere in tedesco. Teoria ed esercizi per comprendere testi originali moderni e antichi", Hoepli 2017 (and subsequent reprints). On Kiro there are exam tests from previous years for a final assessment of learning.
Contents
The German language course has as its sole objective the acquisition of the necessary competence to deal with written texts, even challenging ones, in German and does not provide, as a consequence, spoken or conversation parts. Course topics: study of the grammatical structures of the German language useful for reading, analysis of the German lexicon in order to speed up reading without excessive use of the dictionary and learning different reading techniques.Non-attending students do not have a different program from attending students: the goal for all is to be able to read a text written in modern standard German.
Course Language
Italian
More information
Students authorized to benefit from inclusive/innovative teaching must contact the teacher in advance in order to arrange receptions overtime and any activities dedicated to them.
