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I self-learned Chinese by watching a lot of shows and listening to music. So, I am pretty fluent in listening and can speak a little. But I could not read or write, so this was the perfect course for me. I enjoyed the material and the pace it was going. I've noticed that I'm beginning to recognize more Chinese characters as I sometimes need to research Chinese companies for work, and I can read them when I am watching tv shows. The only thing I wish it taught was the different sounds because it does get confusing when the words are the same characters but different sounds.

Overall, this course is VERY rigorous and comprehensive! You learn SO MANY words/characters! Not 5 stars because some of the videos drag on a little too long, this class is a little on the difficult side, and sometimes there are questions on a quiz for content that has not been taught yet. I would definitely recommend this course if you are a hard worker, have the time, and have the interest in learning the Chinese language. Also, make sure you take paper notes in order to keep track of all of the characters :)

I enjoyed this course. Would have loved to receive an explanation for why the same characters are used several times with a different pronounciation different meanings; however, this course does not provide that level of detailed information. You simply become familiar with the character and its new meaning. Neither does it give an explanation for "radical". Otherwise it's an intense course that moves at a good pace; even when self-pacing. I'm looking forward to taking Part 2 of this course.

The course has a great pace--videos were clear and concise. There were a few discrepencies in the quizzes, which in a few quetions, none of the answer choices were the correct ones, so I was a bit confused with that. I would definately recommend taking this course in conjunction with another beginner's Mandarin course (one that doesn't focus on Chinese Characters, but on simple conversation instead.)

This is a beginner's course but i think difficult for many people -- i have stayed in Shanghai many times so have basic knowledge of mandarin. To progress one has to study to progress. I am also learning french,german and latin so i do not have a lot of spare time. This course is very good but i would rate it above beginner's level for sure.

A very interesting and useful course. I give it only 4 stars as I was not able to obtain the recommended text book, because the sellers did not deliver to my country in Europe. It is a bit difficult to follow without explanatory materials and I had to use supplemental textbooks and grammars to make sense of the exercises in the quiz tests.

Learning Chinese with Chinese characters for beginners course helped me feel more confident to start learning Chinese. Everything, from the characters to the spelling, is easy to understand. Sincere thanks to the teachers and the university. Hope to become a student of Peking University in the near future!

Great for vocabulary building. Sometimes new vocabulary was included in the test questions, and translation wasn't given. If the test review showed pinyin and English translation of the questions I would have given 5 stars. Overall very good for elementary level learners of Chinese, thank you.

Very informative especially explanation on the ancient Chinese form, however not all are easily relatable. Certain individual character means the same as after being added to the second character eg mei (beautiful) and mei li (beautiful) - non-chinese may be puzzled by this.

La cantidad de caracteres que se deben aprender semanalmente es demasiado grande. Está muy bien explicado todo, pero en el caso de los tests, sería positivo poder contar con la traducción de las frases al inglés, para poder comprobar que hemos entendido bien su significado.

The videos were well-done, but the tests were lacking a bit, in that the images could have been smaller, and the questions could have some English or pinyin. I am happy to have learnt a bit, even though I know I have a lot more to learn but this is a good starting place!

Great step-by-step introduction to Chinese Characters! Filled with historical background to help understand the underlying meaning of the characters and not just the image.

It would be nice to have a complete vocabulary for the whole class that we can download and use!

It is a good starting course if you already understand some basic Chinese and its structure, however it is still difficult to remember and recognize characters, revise, practice and more practice then it all becomes clearer

great course for beginner.

i'm from VietNam , too be interested in this course

it's too useful for me to repair step by step learn China like native language.

thank you very much who conduct this course

This course is good for someone who has the basic knowledge about Chinese language and wants to study more. It should be better when there are the sentences examples of using each word.

He aprendido mucho con este curso, el único fallo que tiene es que a veces crea confusión, cuando dos carazteres tienen el mismo significado, no explica cuando usar uno y cuando otro

Very cool course. At my university, we didn't have such introctory notes on the names of the strokes, so it was quite helpful for the understanding of some advanced characters.

A few of the past student suggestions should be incorporated, such as trees rather than letterbox or shoe stand to show inside and outside of doors when entering and leaving

Excelente curso. Falto un poco de apoys visuales en algunas diapositivas, y concodrancia con el examen, sin embargo en general estuvo excelente. Voy por la segunda parte.

It's a great course. You will have to do a big efford to understand all but finally you will learn a lot, and you will see Chinese characters in other perspective.

Extremely useful especially in conjunction with "Chinese for Beginners" and "More Chinese for Beginners". There were just a few errors in videos and in the tests.

It is a very good course but sometimes the sound in the video is very low and it is difficult to hear things and Chinese is all about listening to the tones

The used technology is alreaady a bit dated. Sound quality can be improved. It would be good to have word lists running in a side panel for each lesson.