Post by Tric'hard Carschaleir on Dec 29, 2008 8:33:41 GMT -6
Hear ye! Hear ye!
I hereby announce the opening of the Bolognese Course at the University of Talossa, lead by me, Tric'hard Carschaleir.
Those who are interested in learning the language are requested to sign up within seven days from the issuing of this notification.
The polls will then be officially closed Monday the 5th of the month of January, year 2009.
Follows a description of the course.
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General Introduction: The course I'll lead will have as principal goal the teaching of the Bolognese language, spoken in the city of Bologna and in the surrounding countryside. Bolognese is a beatuiful Gallo-Romance language, similar to our Talossan but very different at the same time and with strong connections with languages such as French and Occitan. Being spoken in the city of the first-created and major university in the Middle Ages and for centuries after, this language has been used by professors, philosophers and men of science to write and teach. Together with it ancestor, Latin, has gave birth to the first deliverance from slavery the world has ever seen, and has been told by Dante Alighieri, the greatest writer of Italy, "The most beautiful of all languages in Italy".
Course intention: In this course I plan to teach you Bolognese language and culture and give you a complete look on our wonderful city, unfortunately not very visited by turists. The course will be mainly text-based, but I plan to include audio as well in some future lesson.
Exercises and grading: Every lesson of the course, except the first one, will be supplemented with a number of exercises of translation or conversation which are to be completed within the following lesson. Every exercise will be then corrected and the results will be made public within a week. Those who do not want their marks to be made public can ask me to send them by PM.
At the end of the course an exam will be done and those who will pass it will receive a credit for the next year of course.
The marks will be from 1 to 10 for normal exercises and from 1 to 20 for the exam. Exercises not done in time will be marked 0. Exercises are to be sent to me by email or PM.
Absent Policy: When absent to a lesson, you will obtain an extra time of four days to do your exercises.
Cheating: It's strictly forbidden to cheat. So copying from another person will result in a 0. It's also forbidden to use online trans... no, wait... I don't think there is any online translator of bolognese.
Course Materials: Due to the lack of English-Bolognese dictionaries, in every lesson will be included a list of vocabulary to remember by heart. Actually, an English-Bolognese dictionary does exist, and it's the Webster's Bolognese-English thesaurus, though I don't know how valid this book may be or if it is still printed.
Weekly Schedule:
Week 1 - Introduction to Bolognese language and phonology
Week 2 - Verbs fèr and èser, articles, personal pronouns, subject expansion, how to say "yes"
Week 3 - Verbs andèr and tôr, the constructions ai é and am pièš, plural of masculine nouns, vowel alternation
Week 4 - Verb avair, First conjugation, prepositions in and int, feminine of nouns, present tense
Week 5 - Some irregular verb, strong verbs, gender of nouns, the preposition ed
Week 6 - Negation, some weak and strong verb, questions, the conjunction es
Week 7 - Plural of feminine nouns, the preposition da, contracted prepositions, the partitive article
Week 8 - Some strong verb, the am pèr construction, the preposition ed, the pronoun as
Week 9 - The second conjugation, the -inèr verbs, dative constructions, demonstrative adjectives, the verb stèr+ preposition
Week 10 - The feminine of adjectives, the third conjugation, formal speech, the three distance degrees
Week 11 - Expressions of time, numbers, possessive pronouns, how to say "must", inclusion, how to say "by myself"
Week 12 - Irregular verbs in -îr, fourth conjugation, anc and gnanc, the andèr in construction, the apostrophe
Week 13 - the imperfect tense, the near past tense, the past participle, how to say "succeed"
Week 14 - the imperfect tense of èser, irregular masculine plural, the "a-rule", plural of -èl nouns, exclamations with tant and quant
Week 15 - the -ñna words, the -CCa words, the plural of adjectives, the uninflected feminine plural
Week 16 - the am vôl construction, the "neuter" nouns, the -glia words
Week 17 - the fictitious subject, the am é d'avîš construction, the negation before a consonant, reflexive verbs, avair da construction
Week 18 - pronominal intransitive verbs, the verb stèr+ preposition, the adverb i, the pronoun in
Week 19 - Comparatives, present participle, the future tense, the côsa questions
Week 20 - Superlative, cunpâgna, the polivalent che, the -årr verbs
Week 21 - Interrogative present and past tense, "where" and "how", quèl and quî, the imperative mood
Week 22 - FINAL EXAM
Every lesson will be supplemented with a dialog and culture tips.
Tric'hard Carschaleir
I hereby announce the opening of the Bolognese Course at the University of Talossa, lead by me, Tric'hard Carschaleir.
Those who are interested in learning the language are requested to sign up within seven days from the issuing of this notification.
The polls will then be officially closed Monday the 5th of the month of January, year 2009.
Follows a description of the course.
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General Introduction: The course I'll lead will have as principal goal the teaching of the Bolognese language, spoken in the city of Bologna and in the surrounding countryside. Bolognese is a beatuiful Gallo-Romance language, similar to our Talossan but very different at the same time and with strong connections with languages such as French and Occitan. Being spoken in the city of the first-created and major university in the Middle Ages and for centuries after, this language has been used by professors, philosophers and men of science to write and teach. Together with it ancestor, Latin, has gave birth to the first deliverance from slavery the world has ever seen, and has been told by Dante Alighieri, the greatest writer of Italy, "The most beautiful of all languages in Italy".
Course intention: In this course I plan to teach you Bolognese language and culture and give you a complete look on our wonderful city, unfortunately not very visited by turists. The course will be mainly text-based, but I plan to include audio as well in some future lesson.
Exercises and grading: Every lesson of the course, except the first one, will be supplemented with a number of exercises of translation or conversation which are to be completed within the following lesson. Every exercise will be then corrected and the results will be made public within a week. Those who do not want their marks to be made public can ask me to send them by PM.
At the end of the course an exam will be done and those who will pass it will receive a credit for the next year of course.
The marks will be from 1 to 10 for normal exercises and from 1 to 20 for the exam. Exercises not done in time will be marked 0. Exercises are to be sent to me by email or PM.
Absent Policy: When absent to a lesson, you will obtain an extra time of four days to do your exercises.
Cheating: It's strictly forbidden to cheat. So copying from another person will result in a 0. It's also forbidden to use online trans... no, wait... I don't think there is any online translator of bolognese.
Course Materials: Due to the lack of English-Bolognese dictionaries, in every lesson will be included a list of vocabulary to remember by heart. Actually, an English-Bolognese dictionary does exist, and it's the Webster's Bolognese-English thesaurus, though I don't know how valid this book may be or if it is still printed.
Weekly Schedule:
Week 1 - Introduction to Bolognese language and phonology
Week 2 - Verbs fèr and èser, articles, personal pronouns, subject expansion, how to say "yes"
Week 3 - Verbs andèr and tôr, the constructions ai é and am pièš, plural of masculine nouns, vowel alternation
Week 4 - Verb avair, First conjugation, prepositions in and int, feminine of nouns, present tense
Week 5 - Some irregular verb, strong verbs, gender of nouns, the preposition ed
Week 6 - Negation, some weak and strong verb, questions, the conjunction es
Week 7 - Plural of feminine nouns, the preposition da, contracted prepositions, the partitive article
Week 8 - Some strong verb, the am pèr construction, the preposition ed, the pronoun as
Week 9 - The second conjugation, the -inèr verbs, dative constructions, demonstrative adjectives, the verb stèr+ preposition
Week 10 - The feminine of adjectives, the third conjugation, formal speech, the three distance degrees
Week 11 - Expressions of time, numbers, possessive pronouns, how to say "must", inclusion, how to say "by myself"
Week 12 - Irregular verbs in -îr, fourth conjugation, anc and gnanc, the andèr in construction, the apostrophe
Week 13 - the imperfect tense, the near past tense, the past participle, how to say "succeed"
Week 14 - the imperfect tense of èser, irregular masculine plural, the "a-rule", plural of -èl nouns, exclamations with tant and quant
Week 15 - the -ñna words, the -CCa words, the plural of adjectives, the uninflected feminine plural
Week 16 - the am vôl construction, the "neuter" nouns, the -glia words
Week 17 - the fictitious subject, the am é d'avîš construction, the negation before a consonant, reflexive verbs, avair da construction
Week 18 - pronominal intransitive verbs, the verb stèr+ preposition, the adverb i, the pronoun in
Week 19 - Comparatives, present participle, the future tense, the côsa questions
Week 20 - Superlative, cunpâgna, the polivalent che, the -årr verbs
Week 21 - Interrogative present and past tense, "where" and "how", quèl and quî, the imperative mood
Week 22 - FINAL EXAM
Every lesson will be supplemented with a dialog and culture tips.
Tric'hard Carschaleir
