During the course the student will improve the vocabulary, the pronunciation of the single characters, will be able to structure the sentence, with gradually more complex grammatical elements to achieve long periods. He will be able to read (without the help of transliteration into the Latin alphabet) and translate texts of medium difficulty, from Chinese to Italian and vice versa. Students will have to master the use of relative sentences, manage the timing of the speech and place the action in a past and future tense. They will therefore have to know how to tell their own life experience or that of others, managing the various complements that clarify the verbal action.
During the course we will deal with the following grammatical and morphosyntactic structures: pivot sentences, aspectual particles, verbal complements, adverbs, the shi ... de structure, the structure with the preposition ba,
The course includes an in-depth study of Chinese literature ranging from the Tang dynasty to the Yuan dynasty. An excursus on the meaning of writing, the periodization of history and the great classics of Chinese literature is foreseen with a look at the philosophical currents of the past.

Testi obbligatori:
- Federico Masini et al., Il cinese per gli italiani, Corso intermedio, volume 2, Hoepli, Milano, 2010. Lezioni 1-10. + lezioni 19-20 del corso elementare.
- Chiara Romagnoli, Grammatica d’uso della lingua cinese, teoria ed esercizi, livelli A1-B1 del QCRE, Hoepli, Milano, 2016. (utile per i tre anni di corso);
- Giuliano Bertuccioli, La letteratura cinese, a cura di Federica Casalin, L’Asino d’oro, Roma, 2013 (capp. 4-5-6)
- Alessandra C. Lavagnino, Silvia Pozzi, Cultura cinese: segno, scrittura e civiltà, Carocci Editore, 2019

Testo facoltativo:
- Tiziana Lioi, Andrea De Benedittis, Introduzione alla scrittura cinese, Volume 2. I radicali e i caratteri cinesi del livello 3 dell’esame HSK: Vol. 2, Hoepli, Milano, 2019