Vv15 Mongolian 1

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2022
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Ondřej Srba, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Michal Schwarz, Ph.D.
Department of Mongolian, Korean and Vietnamese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Ondřej Srba, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Mongolian, Korean and Vietnamese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Tuesday 8:00–9:40 D32
Prerequisites
No prerequisites.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This course unit is conceived as a comprehensive introduction into Mongolian. It will make students acquainted with the Mongolian grammar system and provide a basic speaking competence. The most of attention will be paid to the modern Colloquial Mongolian written in Cyrillic, accidentally references to the Classical Literary Mongolian can also be made. Following the current interest of students (for example religious studies), we can focus also on the Classical Mongolian script, Classical Literary Mongolian and the corresponding terminology.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course unit the student will be able:
- to communicate in Mongolian in the very basic situations practised during the course;
- orientate himself in a part of the Mongolian grammar system discussed during the lectures;
- orientate himself in the language situation of the Mongolian area;
- describe a concise history of the development of Mongolian language (chronology) and Mongolian writing systems;
- know some of the basic culturally specific words.
Syllabus
  • General introduction into Mongolian language, its classification. Presentation of the Mongolian language and cultural area, language situation, dialects. Introduction to the Mongolian writing systems, introduction to the Classical Mongolian script and the Mongolian Cyrillic. A brief historical chronology of development of the Mongolian language.
  • Lessons 1 - 3 of LUBSANGDORJI, Jugderiin and Jaroslav VACEK. Colloquial Mongolian: an introductory intensive course.
  • First Lesson: Basics of the Mongolian phonology. Nominal morphology (gen., dat.-loc.), nominal categories. Personal, possessive, demonstrative pronouns. General and special questions. Negation. Issue: Our Classroom.
  • Second Lesson: Nominal suffixes (accusative, ablative, sociative). Cardinal, ordinal numbers. Verbal morphology (presens imperfecti, composite tenses, nomen perfecti, nomen futuri, nomen usus). Comparison. Quotation verb ge-. Issue: Getting Acquainted.
  • Third Lesson. Inflexible parts of speech (adverbs, postpositions, particles). Vocative. Collective numerals. Presens perfecti. Pairing words. Verba vicaria. Issue: Flat, Appartment House.
  • Most of the time will be given to a practical conversation between teacher and students freely based upon the contents of the text-book and extending the knowledge according to the needs of the students.
Literature
    required literature
  • LUVSANDORDŽ, Dž and Jaroslav VACEK. Colloquial Mongolian : an introductory intensive course. 1st ed. Prague: Triton, 2004, xi, 424. ISBN 8072546074. info
    recommended literature
  • TSERENPIL, D. – KULMANN, R. Mongolian Grammar. Ulaanbaatar: Admon, 2005.
  • POPPE, Nicholas. Grammar of Written Mongolian. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1954.
  • KARA, György. Books of the Mongolian Nomads: More Than Eight Centuries of Writing Mongolian. Bloomington: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 2005.
  • JANHUNEN, Juha Antero. Mongolian. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2012, xiv, 320. ISBN 9789027238252. info
Teaching methods
Language course
The course is opened also to foreign students without knowledge of Czech and can be taught in English.
Assessment methods
Final written test (translation from Mongolian to Czech/English and from Czech/English to Mongolian, one grammar question).
Continuously active participation in the conversation and memorizing of short texts of individual lessons. (personal participation needed)
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2022, recent)
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