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About the Course

Welcome to "Chinese Characters for beginner"! This is an elementary course on learning Chinese characters. Together, we will start from the basic element of Chinese characters-- Strokes. Then we will learn 1,200 basic Chinese words composed of 240 commonly used Chinese characters, which begin with “一”(one), including pronunciation, shape and meaning, so that to improve the learning effect. ① Each Chinese character is with pinyin; ② Each Chinese character is shown in the form of animation in the process of writing, namely strokes; ③ English translation is used on the Chinese character can be a word itself. Other Chinese characters can not be independent of words are the characters of. The English translation of this kind of characters is marked in parentheses; ④ Each Chinese word is accompanied by Pinyin, English translation and picture, which is easy to understand; ⑤ There are proper exercises at the end of each lesson. Good luck !...

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By K S S d S

Jul 17, 2019

very intersting and fun introduction to chinese characters ..

By Tinh T

Dec 25, 2021

It's reaaly good. It hepls me quite a lot

By Polpipat P

May 14, 2020

Some videos sound quality isn't good.

By Vui C L

Jan 26, 2022

Require more practice lessons

By JHeny A Q

Jun 25, 2021

Its very useful and simple

By Herschel

Oct 7, 2019

很有用,我很喜欢!谢谢您们!我很爱这个course.

By Rogayah Y

Aug 26, 2017

With so little instruction about the words it was difficult to understand the choice of words in a sentence and their use. My translations of some of the sentences in the quiz at the end of each session was sometimes a matter of guesswork, inspired or not, it was without insight. Will that come later?

I did feel that my written Chinese has improved through looking at the way the characters were formed within the grid. Of that I have no complaint. All in all I felt that the course stretched me and I have benefitted from it.

By Чупрова А А

May 24, 2019

there was quite a lot of typos. also in some exercises in tests there was no right answers at all according to the results i got after rewriting tests for 3 times.

By Benjamin K

Jul 5, 2019

Good basics, but lacking explanation especially in the practice tests, because sometimes complex sentences are shown, which were never taught.

By Jennifer b

Jun 7, 2020

The pictures were often unclear which made it difficult to know what the correct answer was. Other than that I enjoyed the course

By Morgan G

Oct 27, 2021

I wish there were lessons on grammar and the nuance between words with similar meanings, because we're certainly tested on that!

By Elizabeth N C

Jul 25, 2020

句子结构的更多解释,并在下面听到音频

By inoue t

Mar 11, 2022

Danke!

By Linda D

May 3, 2020

starts out well, but a few weeks in we need more than drawing animations and the odd bit of historical info. I understand that the course is about the characters, and not about learning the language. Nonetheless, some of the quiz questions are asking us to place the correct characters in sentences. By week 4, this had become very difficult, even though I have previously completed some Chinese language courses. We just aren't given the information needed for those problems.

Also, it appears that the course is not monitored by any teachers or assistants. Quiz 15 is corrupted - all the text is missing. I flagged this in the forum a month ago and there has been no response and no fix.

By Guilherme S R

Aug 24, 2021

Não tem uma didática clara. Tem muitas palavras por aula. Não tem apoio dos professores. No entanto, com cerca de 42 horas de estudo, entre o próprio curso e meus estudos por fora, estou com uma boa noção do conteúdo proposto. Aconselho que os alunos que estão fazendo o curso sempre complementem com práticas próprias e procurem algum fórum para compartilhar suas ideias para um melhor aproveitamento.

By Christina S

Aug 16, 2020

NOT for a beginner who does not know any Chinese.. I am a beginner level, and have studied for a month on my own. I know at least 30 of the characters, basic sentences. These quizzes are not beginner. Also the textbook link is to a Chinese webstores dangdang and Amazon.cn, so not English stores! I don't know enough Chinese to order the Chinese beginner textbook...?

By Jasper T

Jan 29, 2021

This course is no where near the usually high "Coursera standard ". The videos are very basic, and just sum up some characters. The quizes contain a lot of unclear questions, and often if you choose the correct answer, it will still tell you its wrong.

I thought it would maybe get better, but after two weeks I'm done with this. It's a waste of time.

By JH T

Nov 8, 2022

I couldn't do the course since the textbook is available through Amazon China or Mainland China Webstores only. Teaching Chinese to beginners it would be good to consider that these might not live in China when designing the course. I give two stars as the course itself looked promising to me.

By Olena G

Nov 30, 2021

cant recommend for beginners. too hard to remember and sructure all the characters, system of the course is complicated (actually it is based just on memorizing characters). i am still looking for the best alternative.

By Claudia O

Apr 6, 2024

Buenas noches, este curso me está decepcionando ya que no entiendo cómo funciona la metodología es confusa, no sabía que iba a tener que comprar un libro, hay videos que no funcionan. Quisiera que me devuelvan el dinero. Muchas gracias

By Joel B

Apr 23, 2023

Not appropriate for beginners. The stroke names on each new character is boring and unnecessary. The introduction of 2 and 3 word vocabulary is inappropriate as that is in the conversational courses.

By Sylvia M S

Nov 8, 2019

It is very difficult to learn characters out of context. On the one hand, calligraphy is extremely nice and fun, but memorizing characters apart from sentences does not make sense.

By Deleted A

Oct 16, 2021

Horrible course. The quizzes are so hard and I can't even see the answers that I got right and wrong. Ridiculous!!!. I feel like unenrolling.

By Christiane D D

May 25, 2021

sería bueno tener las correcciones de los ejercicios.