Università Roma Tre

THE SPANISH LANGUAGE COURSE IS AIMED AT DEVELOPING THE FOUR LANGUAGE SKILLS TO REACH LEVEL A2 OF COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE FOR LANGUAGES.
THE COURSE WILL BE REFLECTIONS ON LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGES WITH THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS.
WE WILL FOCUS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL LANGUAGES IN THE LEARNING OF EUROPEAN LANGUAGES, WITH PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE CONVERGENCE BETWEEN ITALIAN AND SPANISH LANGUAGES.
WE WILL WORK ON READING AND TRANSLATION WORK IN HOUSE AIMED AT IMPROVING UNDERSTANDING AND LINGUISTIC PRODUCTION.

The first part of the course deals with the essential aspects of Spanish grammar, in detail:
a) Phonetics, spelling, accentuation
b) Morphology - definite and indefinite articles - nouns: gender and number .; diminutive and augmentative - Adjectives and pronouns: possessive, demonstrative, numeral - Verb. The three regular conjugations: simple and compound tenses. The main irregular verbs - Personal pronouns subject and complement - Degrees of comparison - Adjectives and relative pronouns, interrogatives, indefinite - Prepositions, adverbs and conjunctions) Syntax - Use of verbs ser, estar, haber, tener - Differences in the use of the present, of the imperfect, and of 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 constitutional events of Latin America of the 19th century will be examined. based on the volume by Giuseppe Cacciatore and Antonio Scocozza, El gran Majadero de América, Naples, The city of the sun, 2008 from p. 29 on page 76, and from the same text the readings: Manifiesto de Cartagena and Discurso de Angostura.

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/