LgJ18 Mongolian 4

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
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
Prerequisites
The course follows Mongolian 3 (Vv17, LgJ503, OJ583) and presupposes a knowledge of Lessons 7-10 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 most basic situations;
- orientate himself in the whole Mongolian grammar system;
- orientate himself in the language situation of the Mongolian area;
- understand basic culturally specific words.
Syllabus
  • Lessons 11 - 15 of LUBSANGDORJI, Jugderiin and Jaroslav VACEK. Colloquial Mongolian :an introductory intensive course.
  • Lesson 11: Issue: Hospital, Pharmacy, Public health, Health care. Grammar: Causatives, specific use of verbal forms.
  • Lesson 12: Issue: Shops, Services, Markets, Clothing. Grammar: Causatives II., Verbs derived from adjectives, Passive voice.
  • Lesson 13: Issue: The Four seasons. Grammar: Converbum successivum, Syntactic differences of the converbum perfecti and converbum imperfecti.
  • Lesson 14: Issue: School and Education. Grammar: Concessive, Suffixes -ngaa, -nguut, Expressing purpose.
  • Lesson 15: Issue: The City of Ulaanbaatar. Specification of direction, place and the cardinal points. Various means of expressing modality. Optative.
  • 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
  • POPPE, Nicholas. Grammar of Written Mongolian. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1954.
  • TSERENPIL, D. – KULMANN, R. Mongolian Grammar. Ulaanbaatar: Admon, 2005.
  • 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
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
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