Università Roma Tre

The first part of the course covers the essential aspects of Spanish grammar, in detail: a) Phonetics, spelling, accent b) Morphology - Determintive and indeterminative articles - Nouns: gender and number; diminutives and growths - Adjectives and pronouns: possessive, demonstrative, numerical - Word. The three regular conjugations: simple and compound times. The main irregular verbs - Personal pronouns subject and complement - Degrees of comparison - Adjectives and relative pronouns, questions, undefined - Prepositions, adverbs and conjunctivae) Syntax - Use of the verbs ser, estar, haber, tener - Differences in the use of the present, the imperfect, and the remote past of the indicative mode - The main verbal periphrases

The second part of the course is based on the aspects of translation from Spanish into Italian with practical exercises. In addition, the figure of Simón Bolívar and the political and constitutional events in Latin America in the 19th century will be examined on the basis of the volume by Giuseppe Cacciatore and Antonio Scocozza, El gran Majadero de América, Naples, La città del sole, 2008 from page 29 to page 76, and the readings: Manifiesto de Cartagena and Discurso de Angostura will also be taken from the same text.

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Manuel Carrera Díaz, Grammatica spagnola, Laterza, 2006.

Giuseppe Cacciatore e Antonio Scocozza, El gran Majadero de América, Napoli, La città del sole, 2008.

Dizionari:

Laura Tam, Grande dizionario di spagnolo, Hoepli, 2004.

Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española, XXII ed., disponibile on-line al sito: http://www.rae.es/