Learner Reviews & Feedback for Mandarin Chinese 1: Chinese for Beginners by Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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ME
Nov 09, 2017
This a great course to learn Chinese for real-life purposes. The pace is perfect for adult learners. It's also fun and not stressful at all.
DM
Jul 12, 2017
This course gives you the option to learn the characters or to simply learn the pinyin. The dialogue videos and scripts are very helpful.
76 - 84 of 84 Reviews for Mandarin Chinese 1: Chinese for Beginners
By Adriana G
•Jun 08, 2017
I liked the cultural tips.
By Kelly P
•Dec 14, 2016
Good course. I learned a lot.
By Gislena
•Jan 26, 2017
Very well explained and easy to follow.
Learnt a lot from this course
By Frank J E
•Jun 17, 2018
Great course for beginners . Does a good job at introducing Mandarin, and teaching a lot of basic conversational phrases and words. The quizzes are too simple in my opinion, they don't reinforce the material that well. But overall the course still provides a good starting point.
By Whitney W
•Aug 04, 2017
I had a few technical problems . But in the end it seemed to work out fine once there was finally a peer for me to grade. This course will prepare you for a short trip as a tourist in China.
By Kshitiz R
•Dec 17, 2016
Xie1Xie1 ni, la4oshi3
By Göran
•Apr 17, 2018
Very good examples and having access to the PDF:s for each lesson. A bit too fast rolling of the video sometimes in the "plays" when you are supposed to read the lines after the actors. Too little explanations about why new words are used as they are. how to effectively use them in sentences. that is only "explained" through examples, but it could be explained in 2 minutes during each video, s
By Avishek K S
•Jul 23, 2019
Very good teaching with practice sets. Totally worth taking it. My only concern is that they should have started with alphabets first for better understanding but still, it is good enough for speaking with native speakers.
By Greg L
•Nov 24, 2016
I know it's difficult to encourage student participation - in the 'discussions' for example - but a bonus of some kind for participation might do the trick. Not sure whether coursera software provides a means of measuring participation, but a count of 'substantial' comment postings might be a measure.
By the same token, compulsory comments on the peer reviews would be helpful for feedback and also to indicate whether the peer reviews have been posted yet.
