Center for Slovenian Studies
Beginning Slovenian 101 (1) (Can be taken in the Fall semester)
-Slovenian pronunciation
-Greetings, goodbyes and other common phrases
-Verb to be and its use in different situations
-Other useful simple phrases and interactions
-Questions about things in singular (Who, what)
-Gender in Slovenian language
-First mention of direct object and it’s case with useful phrases
-Plural in dictionary and direct object form
-Vocabulary for food and drinks in addition to few useful phrases
-Most used verbs
-Time adverbs, talking about time, describing your day
-Repetition of verbs and adding certain aspects
-Vocabulary about health, well-being, body, etc.
-Past tense of the known verbs
-Repetition of everything and presentation of dialogues you are able to do and test.
Beginning Slovenian 102 (2) (Can be taken in Spring semester)
-Repetition of pronunciation
-Revisiting direct object and 4th case with a new use
-Negation and other uses of the 2nd case
-Numbers in Slovenian language
-Store, market, buying vocabulary
-Vocabulary for restaurant and food
-Using the phrases we know and adding a few more
-Adding a few more verbs and use in plural
-Recap of prepositions and adding a new preposition (with) and 6th case
-Future tense and dialogues
-Reading and translating game
-Weather and neuter in Slovenian language
-Family and possession of things
-Holidays in Slovenia
-Answering questions and recap
-Answering additional questions and test.
Intermediate Slovenian 201 (1) (Can be taken in Fall semester)
-Repetition of pronunciation, last years knowledge and how to access all the units from before
-Additional adjectives and use of the verb to be
-New verbs and vocabulary to describe a person
-Events, hobbies etc.
-Personal pronouns in 4th case
-Prepositions and cases in the city (location)
-Use of the knowledge of phrases in the city
-Home and things related to it. Repetition of 4th and 2nd case with the movemend verbs and prepositions
-Other prepositions with movement
-A lahko + verbs at home. New adjectives and combination of our knowledge
-Conditional
-Understanding spoken Slovenian language
-Pronunciation (microphone needed)
-Slovenian perfective and imperfective verbs
-Reading and translating – strategies and use of internet tools.
-Recap and test
Intermediate Slovenian 202 (2) (Can be taken in Spring semester)
-Recap and charts of the previous semester
-Modal verbs and their use
-Colloquial language, dialects and other languages in Slovenian language
-Using simple sentences and combining them into complex and compound
-Many different reading materials
-New vocabulary and the use of TA
-Business Slovenian – Formal Slovenian language
-Listening unit
-Learning more about hotels and ordinal numbers
-Slovenia and sports with gerunds
-Additional verbs and arranging them in charts
-Intentional and repetition of modal verbs
-Exceptions in Slovenian language
-Reported speech
-Recap and test