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Perfect for Real Beginners in Chinese Learning! This course is ideal for those who are just starting their journey in learning Chinese. The focus is on daily conversational skills using pinyin, with minimal involvement of Chinese characters. This approach is excellent for beginners, as it allows you to concentrate on speaking and understanding the language without the added pressure of memorizing characters at this stage. A standout feature of the course is the overall summary notes provided at the end, which include Chinese characters, their pinyin, and definitions. This is a great resource for revisiting what you've learned and gradually familiarizing yourself with the characters at your own pace. I highly recommend this course for anyone looking to build a solid foundation in Chinese communication without feeling overwhelmed by the complexities of the writing system.

A great and comprehensive course overall; as a complete beginner, I did take away a lot. However, I wish the instructor had dedicated a section in each lecture, or at the beginning of the course, to go over the grammar points. Three examples would be: (1) the positions of different parts of speech in a sentence (especially in a question); (2) noun-verb-adjective relations; and (3) when to use or not to use "to be" verb (shì). This way, it'd be much easier for students to formulate sentences and grasp the basis of them. One more trivial issue is that in the later weeks, some words have the "ar" or "anr" finals (as in "zài nàr", "zài nǎr", "yīdiǎnr", and "wánr yóuxì"), but these finals weren't introduced at the beginning of the course, and in the lectures the instructor didn't elaborate on how to pronounce them or why they were there.