Just like the description, the course focuses on preparing you for the HSK 1 exam. It covers all the words (plus a few more) that are in HSK 1 level. I passed the course but I feel like I still haven't learned enough to actually say that I can understand and speak basic Chinese. I wish the course put more attention to explaining sentence structure, and how and when to use modal particles. The volume of the lecture videos and the text dialogues is also very inconsistent. For example, the intro to the lectures are very loud compared to the voice of the teacher. Also in the audio that accompanies the written texts, there are background noises in some of them. This course is pretty okay overall. It is the very first Chinese course that I have ever taken and it wasn't that hard or confusing. I think it's a good start to my learning journey.

The course has a good teacher, good material, and good ammount of content explained. I also liked the activities and the videos, which give it a fun shape; however, it fails in some aspects like a few content errors not yet corrected or absence of an efficient tutoring/QA program. As an advice, I recommend you to take Chinese characters for beginners at PKU before this one, since it may be dense to those who have no background of the language. Finally, with daily dedication on rewriting vocabulary [many] times to memorize, it has what it takes to lead the student further than expensive once a week classes.

This course is great for gaining a solid foundations of the Chinese language, as it covers the basics of the characters and tones in the first week, from then on each week goes with fresh lecture sessions that increase the vocabulary and grammar lessons. Also, the video lectures at the beginning of each week contribute very much for developing and honing the listening comprehension for daily conversations.

This course helps to start learning chinese language. In some cases the grammar explained quite briefly, sometimes it's not quite clear the particles meaning, when they are required and when they are optional and how the meaning changes depending on whether it's used or not. Also, video dialogs are quite fast, hard to grasp the meaning when you only start learning the language

The way the laoshi teaches is quite good . We keep getting to introduce ourselves to new terminologies . Any language can be learnt easily when we focus and enjoy it and our efforts along with interest .

The main key point to be able to communicate in any language is to practice by speaking.

All the very best to the upcoming students who enrolled this course .

Me gusto mucho llevar este curso en mis vacaciones, ahora que regrese a la universidad he visto una mejora en mi nivel de chino y gracias a la dedicación que le dí a este curso y a los materiales que aquí se brindan. Espero poder continuar los demás cursos más adelante. Muchos éxitos a todos el equipo que forman parte de este curso :D Taiganxieninle!!

Not for beginners!

I completed this course to refresh what I had learned previously -- and this course was quite good for that. It's fast-paced and mostly based on listening to enjoyable dialogues, which I liked a lot. But be warned: There's only few dialogues, no practise material, and hardly any repetition of previous lessons.

Very good pace and progressive in the learning, thank you!

Really good videos, people talk slowly, which helps a lot, vocabulary builds up progressively too.

I would recommend a bit more use friendliness at the last test (need to jump back and forth between the audio instructions/dialogue and the questions)

ET

The materials were well organized. The course could benefit from providing a running list of the total characters required to understand a given lesson. Also this seems like a very hard way for someone to have their first interaction with Chinese learning.

The lessons are easy to understand for beginner, as long as the participants always practice what they got from here. Sadly the quality of the recording and lessons video aren't at the best quality, hope that it will be fixed very soon.

It is a good introductory course; the teacher is likable, and the content is fun. However, I feel like the last a few lesson were not as good as the first ones. The quality of the dialogues gradually decreased towards the end.

This is definitely a good course for anyone looking to learn very basic Mandarin Chinese! There isn't much in the way of speaking practice, but this course covers reading, listening, and basic grammar very well.

Cours très intéressant. Simple et clair. J'ai suivi ces enseignements en parallèle de cours en Institut. Cela a été très complémentaire. HSK1 largement validé. Je recommande et ai hâte de passé au niveau 2.

I feel like some of the dialogues were a bit off-topic or unusual/unnatural. Other than that, very good course and highly recommend as something to do during quarantine if you're still in it (like me)

I found this course very useful. The way it is set up worked well for me. The only difficulty I had was that the videos and soundtracks were "too heavy" for my internet connection here in China.

Thorough content as it covers a lot of basic topics.

However, the explanation video isn't loud enough - I need to adjust volume every time different videos played.

Fantastic course to review the HSK 1 material and get started onto learning Chinese. Would love to see more culture notes though in future versions of the course!

This course is best fit for beginners who know nothing about Chinese yet. It's also a great refresher course for students who already know a bit of Chinese.

Very nice and instructional. Some minor mistakes here and there (it had two lectures with the videos in the wrong order). Looking forward to the next ones.

Guter Kurs für die Vorbereitung auf den HSK 1 Test, allerdings könnte er didaktisch etwas aufbereitet werden (Langsamere Dialoge, weniger Überforderung).

Good Course, It teaches you more Mandarin than in HSK1. The Focus is on sentences which is great. Through this i learned a lot of Daily life Sentences.

It follows the basic structure of teaching a foreign language, with the expected "My name is ...". The will help candidates memorise the key phrases.

I signed up for this course because I'm going to visit China. It is a great class for people like me who have never studied Chinese before.

You are excelled in your teaching but improve Chinese characters should be left as complex. I need just only knowing speaking not writing

Maybe the tests can be redone to make them less confusing? But good course overall, study the particles and vocab in between lessons!