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Slovak Level 1 Beginners

Course description: Level 1 is for complete beginners or those who have had only very little contact with the Slovak language. The course runs over three ten-week terms and each session is two hours long. The course includes all four skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. This includes knowledge of basic vocabulary, grammar, morphology, syntax, and phonetics. The course will cover the following:

Aim:

  • To develop the ability to use the Slovak language effectively for purposes of practical communication
  • To form a base of the skills, language and attitudes required for further study either independently or in a class situation
  • To offer insights into the culture, history and civilisation of Slovakia

Outcomes:

  • To understand and respond to simple spoken language
  • To communicate in speech, showing knowledge of a range and variety of vocabulary and of appropriate register in simple and routine tasks
  • To be able to understand most common public notices and signs likely to be encountered in everyday life

Objectives:

  • To cope with simple everyday situations and routine social conversation
  • To get friendly with the world 鈥淕RAMMAR鈥 and to understand basic terminology and concepts focusing on their communicative importance

Personal Domain:

  • Greetings
  • Introducing yourself and others
  • the phone
  • Dealing with emergencies
  • Thanking
  • Apologising
  • Talking about countries, regions of the world and languages
  • Asking questions and giving information on place of origin, profession, address, phone number, email, etc.
  • Talking about yourself, family and children, friends, personal interests and leisure activities
  • Describing people
  • Describing your house/flat, naming rooms in a house, reading housing advertisements, naming and describing furniture and fittings in a simple manner
  • Expressing likes/dislikes, personal views and preferences on simple matters
  • Discussing day-to-day activities and routines
  • Inviting guests to an event and agreeing a date/place/time
  • Discussing in simple terms differences in culture, attitude, customs and practice

Public Domain:

  • Asking where places are, giving and understanding directions
  • Making travel arrangements (booking flight, hotel room, buying a railway ticket)
  • Arranging bookings with restaurants, hotels etc., stating facilities, dates and number of persons and making simple enquiries
  • Buying tickets for the theatre, the cinema, the museum or other events stating dates and number of persons and making simple enquiries
  • Reading most common public notices and signs

Functions:

  • formal and informal forms of address
  • writing messages, email, cards
  • making complain
  • expressing likes and dislikes
  • describing skills, wishes, plans
  • writing lists; e.g. a shopping list
  • understanding basic directions
  • giving polite orders
  • making requests

Grammar:

  • alphabet, pronunciation of consonants: 膹,钮,艌,木,膷,d啪,拧,啪 and d,t,n,l,c,dz,s,z , pronunciation of diphthongs: ia,ie,iu,么 and the difference between short vowels a,e,i,y,o,u,盲 and long vowels 谩,茅,铆,媒,贸,煤
  • verbs: to be and to have, by钮 a听ma钮
  • conjugations: basic categories in indicative present
  • modal verbs: chcie钮, vedie钮, m么c钮, smie钮, musie钮, nesmie钮鈥
  • verbs of motion: 铆s钮, pr铆s钮, odch谩dza钮鈥
  • basic conjugations, indicative present,
  • nouns and genders
  • adjectives : possessive and qualitative: dobr媒, Robertov, Evin鈥
  • plural :nouns, adjectives: moji dobr铆 拧tudenti鈥
  • personal pronouns : ja, ma, m艌a, 钮a, teba, so mnou, ti, n谩s, v谩m, ho鈥
  • possessive pronouns: m么j, moja, V谩拧, svoju, na拧e, va拧u, tvojho, jeho, jej..
  • demonstrative pronouns: ten, t谩, to, tento, t谩to, toto, toho,鈥
  • interrogative pronouns: kto, 膷o, koho, ak媒, ktor媒, 膷铆鈥
  • reflexive pronouns: si, sa, seba鈥
  • indefinite pronouns听: niekto, nie膷o,听niekoho...
  • cases: the accusative, nominative singular and plural and instrumental
  • numbers: cardinal: jeden, dva, tri鈥 ordinal: prv媒, prv谩, prv茅, druh媒, tret铆鈥 and declension.
  • multiplicative prv媒kr谩t, prv媒 raz, jedenkr谩t, jeden raz, dvakr谩t, dva razy, tri razy, p盲钮 r谩z
  • indefinitive numerals mnoho, m谩lo, ve木a鈥
  • adverbs : dobre, zle, pomaly鈥
  • Nonflexible parts of speech : Prepositions and connections with the cases : v, vo, do, na, pre, pred, za, pod, nad, po, cez, pre, s, so, z, zo, u, pri鈥
  • Conjuctions coordinating: a, ale, aj, i , no, alebo, v拧ak, av拧ak, 膷i鈥
  • Conjucations subordinating: 啪e,ke膹, 膷i, nech, ak鈥
  • Interjections : jaj, no, ach, aha鈥.
  • particularly :vraj, aha, no 鈥
  • Abbreviations PNS, SND, OSN, MZV

Course Books:

  1. KR脥沤OM KR脕沤OM Sloven膷ina A1 - 2.doplnen茅 a prepracovan茅 vydanie (the second edition) - Univerzita Komensk茅ho 2018 (Ren谩ta Kamen谩rov谩, Eva 艩panov谩, Helena 墓os Ivor铆kov谩, Michaela Mo拧a钮ov谩, Zuzana Krchov谩, Hana Tich谩)听
  2. KR脥沤OM KR脕沤OM Sloven膷ina A1+A2 - Cvi膷ebnica (Workbook) -听Univerzita Komensk茅ho 2015 (Helena Ivor铆kov谩, Eva 艩panov谩, Ren谩ta Kamen谩rov谩, Michaela Mo拧a钮ov谩, Zuzana Kleschtov谩, Hana Tich谩)

Textbooks can be ordered online at听

Useful Reference Material:

English Slovak Dictionary, ISBN 0-86516-226-3

Anglicko-Slovensk媒 prekladov媒 slovn铆k ISBN 80-88723-67-1

Slovensko-Anglick媒 prekladov媒 slovn铆k ISBN 80-88723-67-1

The Guide to The Peoples of Europe, The Times, ISBN 0-7230-0624-5

A History of Slovakia by Stanislav. Kirsbaum, ISBN 0333681029

Websites:

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