Fun videos, that try to convey meaning through context, rather than simple translation. I wish there was a bit more grammar to clarify the usage of some later vocabulary, but overall provides a solid foundation to continue learning Chinese.

It was nice but there wasnt english subtitles in some parts which made it harder to learn. I dont think ıt was for absulute beginers maybe for people that already know a bit of chinese and want to study so they dont forget it .

Lots of dun and good teaching style. The interface was a little wonky. I had to refresh to move on between every section. The in-video quizzes the timing seemed a little off. All in all a good preparation for the next class.

It's a good course, but not for beginners, since it doesn't provide any written material - what makes really hard for the students to take notes - nor the videos are clear enough to understand all word without a translator.

The course is well done. Lessons build upon each other. When the deadline for quizzes reached, if it is possible to provide the correct answers to the questions. I would take another course similar to this.

At times the quiz and review questionnaires get fiddled up. I think it has to be corrected with the inputs. otherwise, it has helped me a lot as a basic mandarin student. Thank you for this course.

Probably the best Chinese introduction course I had so far. My only complaint would be that they teach Traditional Chinese characters rather than the more frequently used Simplified Characters.

I love the idea of not using any other languange than Chinese. However, I think this course will be better for those who has some basic skills. This course will be fun for practices!

It would be nice if there were English subtitles during the conversation. Sometimes there are words in dialogue that teacher didn't teach but i wanna know,

เหมาะสำหรับคนที่พอมีพื้นฐานมาบ้างแล้ว เพราะว่าตัวคอร์สไม่ได้เจาะลงรายละเอียดพื้นฐานขนาดนั้น ตัวเนื้อหาค่อนข้างไปไว อาจจะต้องทวนย้ำซ้ำๆ ถึงจะเข้าใจ

I really enjoy this course, although the quizzes were very hard, I can say that I have learned quite a lot.

I will recommend this course for sure.

A good Chinese course for beginners. Learners can speak daily conversations after finish the course.

Thank the teacher and team for the course.

Thanks so much for sharing this course, I wish you make more subtitles for each video and the vocabulary for foreign students.

Muy buen curso aunque es necesario investigar por cuenta propia para poder comprender en su totalidad los temas planteados.

Very good course for beginners as well as people who want to improve listening and speaking skills, I enjoyed each class.

I would like it to include more simplified Chinese characters than traditional, but other than that, an awesome course!

Subititles during the chinese conversation after we learn the characters would be very beneficial

Nice

Generally a decent course that certainly led me to be able to start understanding Mandarin Chinese. It may seem like stating the obvious, but it needs to be conducted with a dictionary facility to hand (e.g. yabla online dictionary), because it quickly became clear that you won't get the meanings of the words and phrases just by following the course. An early example is the relatively simple phrase "yŏu shì" which, when it is presented, could easily have a number of possible meanings. I guessed the wrong one & was confused for some time after until I looked it up online.

One possible defect of the course arises in the presentation of the written words. First, you don't realise that all the quizzes are going to be written ones and secondly, you are presented with the TRADITIONAL written words but then questioned using their MODERN written counterparts, which don't always match and so the task of learning is made that much harder. Not insurmountable, though. A bigger problems arises with the end-of-section quizzes. Some of the things being asked need a degree of explanation. For example, each test contains a few questions in which you are asked to arrange words in the "correct" order, presumably to form a proper sentence. I never got this. It didn't seem to matter which order I chose, the answer always appeared to be wrong. This is not helped by the fact that some of the words don't seem to be there; they are just simply missing. For example, you'll be asked to put words A, B, C, D and E in the correct order, but word D will just be a blank space. This is just one of the course deficiencies that could do with some attention from the organisers. All in all, though, it is still a reasonable course and provides a good start.

This is not really a from-scratch course because there is a *lot* (300-500 words) of vocabulary and some complex grammar that is not explained. I went through the course very slowly and it was not my only source for learning. Additionally, I'd had some solid basic Chinese language study before taking this. The videos are of limited value because the sound quality is quite poor and everybody speaks enormously fast (you can slow the speed). I spent most of my time studying the video transcripts and getting all the vocabulary down with other supporting materials before I even tackled listening to the videos. I am glad I took the course because it is the only Chinese language course on Coursera with traditional Chinese script and it covers a huge range of vocabulary, BUT it requires a lot of supplementation and needs some improvement. A true beginning course would have much more limited vocabulary (200 words max) and a lot more repetition. That may be hard to do in the MOOC environment. Still a very worthwhile course but takes persistence to get through it.

Great as a supplement or for review: I liked the content and videos, however I don't think there are enough practice exercises. Without the practice exercises, the pace seems to go pretty quickly (too quickly). The only reason I could keep up is because I spent 6 months on Duolingo before this. They do not go over stroke patterns which was disappointing, but I did learn some new vocabulary that will be useful.

I think the teacher is really nice and I understand the methodology they're using... but in my personal case, I would have found extremely useful the translation of the characters so I wouldn't feel lost. I tried to translate using different apps, but they didn't get her voice or my pronuntiation so I'm not sure if this is the right course for me. Thank you anyway!

I think week 6 Exam No.16 has a problem with the choice J it should be 「你」不是「我」

Some part with the animation I think it is really good, but some are like just a photo. so I wonder why the standard of each week is so different.

Some part has so many conversations but all actor has no microphone, so it quite hard to listen.

Thanks

Es un poco difícil tener que memorizar todos los caracteres. Gracias a los Subtitulos es que pude concluir el curso. pero habían frases que no llegue a comprender del todo por el contexto y creo eso fue lo más difícil de captar