BAX413 Latvian: practical language course III

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Felix Rainer Ruschke, M.A. (lecturer), doc. Mag. Vaidas Šeferis, Dr. phil. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Marta Běťáková
Timetable
Mon 18:20–19:55 A48
Prerequisites
BAX412 Latvian II.
Students are allowed to attend this course only if they successfully finished courses BA411 and BA412.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
This course follows after the courses BA411 and BA412 and is the third part of the four-semester course of Latvian language. In the field of grammar, we work with the morphology of the Latvian verb. New conversational themes re added and communication skills in Latvian are developed.
Syllabus
  • In the field of grammar, we work with 1) Latvian future tense, further on also verb modes, i.e. 2) conditional + reflexive verbs conditional, 3) debitive + reflexive verbs debitive and 4) relative mode + reflexive verbs relative mode.
  • In the field of vocabulary we talk about 1) elements of nature, 2) verbs expressing various kinds of motion, 3) adjectives regarding colours and people‘s character and 4) adjectives and nouns denoting people’s looks.
Literature
  • Učební texty dodává vyučující
  • Nikulceva, Sandra. Česko-lotyšský slovník. Leda, Praha 2006
  • Butkus, Alvydas, Sarkanis, Alberts a Šelelyová, Denisa. Česko-lotyšsko-litevská konverzace. Kulturní dialog, Praha 2008.
Teaching methods
lectures, readings, drills
Assessment methods
Written test and oral examination.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2013.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2009, recent)
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