Course A1 information
Basic information
e-slovak A1 consists of 10 topic-based units introducing day-to-day situations in the lives of the four main characters: Johanna, Zuzana, Róbert and Carlo. The course approximately corresponds to the textbook called Krížom-krážom – slovenčina A1 (1st Ed., 2007). It is one of the series of textbooks Krížom-krážom which have been published by Studia Academica Slovaca – The Centre for Slovak as a Foreign Language at Faculty of Arts Comenius University in Bratislava. It is used by students studying Slovak at many universities abroad, by compatriots and also by students at different language schools in Slovakia.Learning goals
- to know the Slovak alphabet and pronunciation
- to be able to communicate in basic Slovak in everyday situations
- to know elementary greetings and phrases, simple vocabulary related to your personal characteristics, living, study, job and profession, description of interior and exterior (city), shopping, food, colours, numbers, phone call
- to use the most frequent grammatical structures; nominative and accusative case, grammatical gender, comparative and superlative forms of adjectives, pronouns, numerals, verbs and their negation
Target group
Primarily international students of Slovak and Slavic languages, the Slovaks living abroad or ex-pats, applicants for study programs in Slovakia which are part of development aid of the Slovak Republic, participants of the "Studia Academica Slovaca" Summer School and all people interested in studying Slovak language and culture.
Requirements
- basic computer and Internet literacy
- English Pre-Intermediate level (A2)
Activities
You are free to use all the facilities of our e-slovak online course. Your learning in each lesson consists of several activities and exercises and you can work with them as many times as you need.
Each lesson contains:- dialogues with new words, phrases and illustrations, reading and listening followed by reading and listening comprehension self evaluation exercises,
- acquisition of vocabulary and grammar with self evaluation exercises,
- short final test
- audio assignment – you should make a short audio recording on the current topic (who are you, where are you from etc.) and we provide a feedback of your presentation
- written assignment – you should write a short essay on the current topic (description of your best friend, your dreamflat etc.) and we give you a feedback
On the course page you can also find:
- grammar guide (with grammar tabs)
- simple online Slovak-English dictionary
- Discussion forum
Certificate of Completion
There is an option of getting the Certificate of Completion of the e-learning course of Slovak as a foreign language.
Students who want to be awarded a certificate of completion have to follow all the instructions and to be on time with the following assignments:
- all 10 short tests at the end of each lesson - the pass rate is 60 percent and you have three attempts to pass the test,
- all 10 audio recordings and all 10 essays,
- a comprehensive test at the end of the course – the pass rate is 60 percent.
In total: 10 small lesson tests, 10 audio assignments, 10 short written assignments (essays) and 1 final comprehensive test (available 6th April 2024 - 20th May 2024)
Tutors
Lucia Demková
Martina Dvouletá
Pavol Zlatovský
Katarína Cupanová
Zuzana Vrabcová
Natália Hrapková
Time Schedule
- 25th September 2023 – 15th October 2023: Lesson 1
- 16th October 2022 – 5th November 2023: Lesson 2
- 6th November 2023 – 26th November 2023: Lesson 3
- 27th November 2023 – 17th December 2023: Lesson 4
- 8th January 2024 – 28th January 2024: Lesson 5
- 29th January 2024 – 18st February 2024: Lesson 6
- 19th February 2024 – 3rd March 2024: Lesson 7
- 4th March 2024 – 24th March 2024: Lesson 8
- 25th March 2024 – 14th April 2024: Lesson 9
- 15th April 2024 – 5th May 2024: Lesson 10
- 6th May 2024 – 20th May 2024: REVISION AND FINAL TEST
To make our communication effective and progressive, we suggest that you follow the recommended schedule.
Software
We use the Learning Management System Moodle in our course.
Grammar guide is presented in PDF format. You will need Adobe Reader to view it (download it for free at http://get.adobe.com/reader/).
Some Assignments need to be submitted in .doc or .docx format, created by Microsoft Word, or with OpenOffice Writer (free download at www.openoffice.org).
To listen to the audiorecordings (dialogues) and to make your own audio recordings you need Adobe Flash installed in your web browser (get it for free at http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/).
Technical support
For any technical problems with your computer related to the e-slovak access, please contact tutori@e-slovak.sk.
General Terms of Service
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Course fees
There are no course fees associated with the work in the e-slovak course. The course is free of charge.