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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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I THINK IT HELPS PRETTY MUCH! ^ __ ^

it is fun but could be a little better

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Very good course! Some of the exercises are a bit hard, but all in all I'm just grateful that it's free and that it teaches well!

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By Mario X R

Mar 16, 2020

I have enjoyed a lot this course. It has been very exciting to discover the formation of the characters and the radicals. Very entertaining and instructional. Thanks.

By AyeAye N T

May 17, 2021

I enjoyed this course very much. There are many ancient Chinese characters which are well-explained.

It is very interesting to learn the history of each character.

By Carolyn M

Jul 2, 2020

With no actual experience in Chinese, I was able to complete this course usually getting 90s or above. I recommend this course to learn the pen stroke order.

By Karen G

Jul 31, 2024

Un curso muy bueno para comenzar a aprender e identificar los caracteres y trazos de los mismos, su modalidad me permite avanzar en mis tiempos libres.

By thwet l

Apr 20, 2021

Chinese characters can be easily recognized and written by this course. I am highly recommended. I really thanks to course coordinators and teachers.

By Tuvshin D

Feb 7, 2021

I am a truly beginner and I loved the course. The reason is the lessons are very interesting and related to each other. I am motivated to learn more.

By Javier G Z

Jun 14, 2020

Es un muy buen curso, lo recomiendo mucho. Ayuda mucho a relacionarse con el idioma y a aprender nuevo vocabulario, ademas de su forma de escribirlo.

By Alejandro A P

Feb 28, 2021

Es un muy buen curso, especialmente si quieres conocer mas sobre los caracteres, te da un buen banco de ellos para poder estudiarlos y emplearlos

By Marina D S

Aug 29, 2020

This course has helped me to read Chinese characters. It is taught in a great manner. I did not find it very easy, but it was fun to work on it.

By Wanmata K

May 17, 2020

Easy to understand the characters. Love that the course gave the original of characters and meaning, also provide the related characters too.

By Sonia M

Sep 3, 2019

A very well structured course. I gained a deeper understanding of the Chinese language and made fast progess in writing skills. Thank You!

By Asad M

Jan 19, 2021

This is a great course offered by Coursera. It really helped me a lot improving my basics of Chinese characters and their writing methods

By Patrick B

Jul 23, 2017

Great course !! Teaches how to write the chinese characters in a very didactic way, step by step. I am now looking for the next course !

By Supawadee W

Oct 17, 2023

Learn Chinese characters, the history of the characters, how to write Chinese characters. and many vocabulary words expanded from words

By sara c

Mar 22, 2022

A pesar de ser caracteres básicos, se aprende más vocabulario y le da sentido a las palabras, debido a la historia del mismo caracter.

By EUGENIO O

Aug 6, 2021

I do appreciated the availability of a valuable course book. Unfortunately there is not a text book for Characters for beginners II.

By Idiomas E

Jul 4, 2022

Very good course! Some of the exercises are a bit hard, but all in all I'm just grateful that it's free and that it teaches well!

By Maria F

Apr 25, 2017

La verdad que es el mejor curso que hice hasta ahora. Los examenes son exigentes. Me encanto. Espero que suban el curso siguiente.

By Yeni C

Jan 8, 2021

Thank you for letting me study with you through this course. I can't afford a Mandarin course at the moment so thank you so much!

By DELIA M T S

Apr 4, 2021

me agrado este curso porque va uno aprendiendo otro idioma de otra cultura, que a la vista parece imposible de aprender gracias

By Tan C S

Nov 17, 2020

Thank you so much , i had learnt a lot so far in regarding the characters and the steps on how to write the characters properly.

By Hlwe A N

Sep 26, 2021

I want to recommend this is the best course for all beginners, all lessons are very clear to understand and perfect explanation

By Pablo C

Dec 22, 2020

Its really helps to consolidate the characters you study trough many test where you have to read new and old learnt characters!

By A O

Aug 8, 2022

A fantastic course, to get an insight of the strokes, their names and order. Together teh course gives a lot of vocabulary.