Advanced Yoruba II

Catalog description

Students will engage in interpersonal and interpretive tasks to develop productive skills to use the language with sufficient structural accuracy and vocabulary to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations in practical, social and professional topics. Discourse will be cohesive. Students will use the language acceptably, but with some noticeable imperfections; yet, errors will never interfere with understanding and will rarely disturb the native speaker. Students will effectively combine structure and vocabulary to convey their meaning accurately, speaking readily and filling pauses suitably. In face-to-face conversation with natives speaking the standard dialect at a normal rate of speech, comprehension will be quite complete. Students can typically discuss particular interests and special fields of competence with reasonable ease. Can use the language as part of normal professional duties such as answering objections, clarifying points, justifying decisions, understanding the essence of challenges, stating and defending policy, conducting meetings, delivering briefings, or other extended and elaborate informative monologues. Can reliably elicit information and informed opinion from native speakers. Use of structural devices is flexible and elaborate. Without searching for words or phrases, students use the language clearly and relatively naturally to elaborate concepts freely and make ideas easily understandable to native speakers. Errors occur in low-frequency and highly complex structures.