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About the Course

Welcome to "Chinese Characters for beginner"! This is an elementary course on learning Chinese characters. Together, we will start from the basic element of Chinese characters-- Strokes. Then we will learn 1,200 basic Chinese words composed of 240 commonly used Chinese characters, which begin with “一”(one), including pronunciation, shape and meaning, so that to improve the learning effect. ① Each Chinese character is with pinyin; ② Each Chinese character is shown in the form of animation in the process of writing, namely strokes; ③ English translation is used on the Chinese character can be a word itself. Other Chinese characters can not be independent of words are the characters of. The English translation of this kind of characters is marked in parentheses; ④ Each Chinese word is accompanied by Pinyin, English translation and picture, which is easy to understand; ⑤ There are proper exercises at the end of each lesson. Good luck !...

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By jamie h

Sep 14, 2020

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.

By Sheue L Y

Dec 18, 2020

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.

By Anna G L

Feb 18, 2017

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.

By Aishwarya M

Apr 5, 2023

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!

By Marios M

Mar 19, 2017

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!

By Juergen S

May 17, 2017

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

By Phạm L

Jun 19, 2017

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

By Wanvipa P

Jan 8, 2017

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.

By Sara d V

Apr 24, 2022

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

By Pedro H d J B G

Oct 23, 2020

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.

By sam k

Oct 4, 2021

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

By Dagho D O

Apr 23, 2023

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.

By Lucía P

Mar 16, 2019

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.

By Kate S

Aug 9, 2019

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.

By Kavita T

Jan 16, 2020

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

By Gisa J

Apr 30, 2021

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.

By Shaunda

Oct 8, 2018

This course video is slower but longer then the other courses. But I like that the book came with the course. Now I have a reference to keep with me.

By Andreo V R d S

Dec 28, 2016

It was easy to learn several chinese characters. But some grammar was demanded in the exercises, although it was not taught during the course.

By luis r

Jul 19, 2019

esta bien diseñado el curso, con tiempo, pero el idioma chino es complicado en aprender, me costo mucho llegar hasta acá, gracias

By Luis M

Apr 17, 2020

Very interesting. It's also quite helpful in making you learn characters. You need some previous knowledge of Chinese, though.

By Ngọc T

Oct 5, 2022

the course itself is very excellent. All the quiz are very helpful. Only one thing, the sound is not loud enough for me.

By Ekaterina

Jun 4, 2022

Some exercises contain words that will be given in next lessons or not covered at all.

By Lee F K

Oct 16, 2020

Overall is good but the pictures were not drawn properly, can be confusing.

By Berry

Nov 6, 2020

I THINK IT HELPS PRETTY MUCH! ^ __ ^

it is fun but could be a little better

By Virginia W

May 17, 2019

Challenging for a first timer, but well set out and good pace.