Vv17 Mongolian 3

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
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
Tue 16:00–17:40 L34, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
Prerequisites
The course follows Mongolian 2 (Vv16, LgJ502, OJ596) and presupposes a knowledge of Lessons 4-6 of the text-book Colloquial Mongolian : an introductory intensive course.
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.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course unit the student will be able:
- to communicate in Mongolian in 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;
- understand basic culturally specific words.
Syllabus
  • Lessons 7 - 10 of LUBSANGDORJI, Jugderiin and Jaroslav VACEK. Colloquial Mongolian :an introductory intensive course.
  • Lesson 7: Issue: Shopping, markets, post-office. Grammar: Superlative, causatives, verbs derived from adverbs, preteritum perfecti, converbum modale, expressing simultaneous actions, verbal nouns as attributes.
  • Lesson 8: Issue: Library, museum, exhibition. Grammar: Expressing a condition, verba intensiva (expressing long and short duration of action).
  • Lesson 9: Theater, cinema. Echo words, use of cases, postpositions, preteritum imperfecti (expressing of evidentiality), comparison with "bodvol".
  • Lesson 10: Issue: Sports, Festivals. Grammar: Converbum abtemporale, particles, idioms and phrases.
  • Vocabulary and facts about the Mongolian countryside and nomadic pastoralism are added continually.
  • 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.
  • The course is opened also to foreign students without knowledge of Czech and can be taught in English.
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.
  • JANHUNEN, Juha Antero. Mongolian. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2012, xiv, 320. ISBN 9789027238252. info
    not specified
  • VACEK, Jaroslav a Dž. LUVSANDORDŽ a Čoj. LUVSANDŽAV. Učebnice mongolštiny. Hovorový styl. Praha: SPN, 1979.
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 2022, Autumn 2023.
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