very good for the very beginner like me, easy to understand, teacher's pronunciation so clear and understandable, video not too long or too short and cover things in daily life that we need to know. It's a very very great course :D I feel good to join this course. Thank You.

The teacher is phenomenal and a very good understanding of the subject. She never missed any single detail of the subject and also let know of what-if situations which is good to see. Overall I'm very happy with the course and I think it will really help to boost my carrier.

Un excelente curso, me ayudo bastante a dar un punto de partida a a prender chino ya que al ser un idioma extraño a primera vista uno no sabe por donde empezar, este curso fue mi gran empuje y punto de partida hacia enteder este hermoso y idioma junto con su hermosa cultura.

This course is really suitable for a completely beginner like me. But when I learn from another sources like Youtube, I found that the some expression like "Zaijian" is really too formal and almost never used in daily conversation. But, overall it's a good starting point.

THank you very much for this course which helps a lot making it easier to learn such a different language from our indo-european ones. Il helps me aiming at the following step : validate a HSK1 level in Chinese !

Regards, and seee you soon on new courses following this one.

Этот курс - замечательное приобретение для новичка! Китай - это великая страна с богатой культурой и языком. Огромное вам спасибо! (This course is great for beginners! China is a wonderful country of the East with an interesting culture and language. Thank you very much!)

This course was presented professionally. It was well organized with the right amount of material to keep my interest. I highly recommend this course to anyone who has a desire to learn Chinese. I look forward to any additional courses that Peking University has to offer.

Chinese for beginners is very helpfull and very organised lesson. The instructor was very profesional, gratefull and very knowlagable.

One thing i can can not understand is that the video can not playing by any kinds of the media player after downloaded to the computer.

Very helpful to learn the basic workings of the Chinese language. The material covered provides a solid foundation to continue studying grammar and vocabulary. It would've been nice to have chinese writing content too but it's probably better suited for a separate course.

The course is amazing! thank you for this opportunity and the collaboration with Catania university. In the first time i was afraid to start it, because we know the chinese language is difficult!! but with the course i learned many words and helpful expression . Enjoy it!

This course is good for anyone looking to learn how to speak simple Chinese. It's very thorough without going into too much detail. The phrases you learn will be helpful if you plan to travel to a Chinese speaking country or to make conversation. Thank you for the class!

Abarca muchos aspectos cotidianos donde uno como turista podría aplicar lo aprendido, ve desde lo básico como el pinyin hasta como tener una conversación básica. Lo único que me gustaría que tuviera fuera la gramática, es decir el orden en que se forman los enunciados.

I have enjoyed polishing my Chinese speaking skill with the help of this class. The instructor is very gentle at teaching. I have also gained a more elaborated inside view of Chinese culture, which I wasn't aware of previously. This class, it's great for beginners :)

Thank you so much, Xiaoyou Liu laoshi! Although i'm a beginner in Hanyu, i always understand your lectures . After this course, i can hold conversation in Chinese and remember all word learned. I hold you in the highest respect and hope to see you as soon as possible.

El curso fue muy bueno, la profesora explica muy bien la gramática, la pronunciación y como se deben usar las palabras, estoy muy agradecida por la oportunidad y espero que muchas personas puedan tener el privilegio de aprender con este curso, de nuevo muchas gracias.

The course is nicely designed for busy learners with very little or even no Chinese background knowledge. Within few weeks of fun learning, I am equipped with many popular vocabulary and useful sentences/ phrases for basic daily communication. Many thanks to Coursera!

I loved the course! Xiao Liu is an excellent teacher. She pronounces slowly and clear which makes all lessons easy to understand and follow. The additional material provided in each lesson is very helpful for practicing before answering the quizzes and submitting the

I found this lesson so valuable! I love how the video teach me and I've gained some new words in Chinese as well as using phrase.

I hope there are more Chinese lessons as well as other languages!

Thanks for having it online so that we can study when we have free time!

Отличный интенсивный курс. Полностью соответствует своему названию. Рекомендую всем в качестве отправной точки в изучении китайского. Excellent intensive course. Content totaly matches it's name. May recommend it to everyone as a starting point in studying Chinese.

This course is absolutely for beginners who want to learn the basic Chinese language in each every day. On my experience, this course will guide you step-by-step up until you learn their language basically and the videos are very helpful to understand the language.

It is a good course to start learning Chinese I think, I was afraid of difficulties in pronouncing Chinese but I believe this course helped me to get used to spoken Chinese. Now I am planning to continue with Chinese learning, thanks to the course and the lecturer!

That is very nice experience for learning Chinese for beginners. hope so we should have such courses with extended models, for HSK-Level2,3,4,5 respectively in Near Future, Regards, Khoso, Nazakat Ali,

PhD Scholar at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou P.R.China

The teacher was very helpful. I wanted to learn basics quickly and I must say this course helped me. Guessing I must watch the videos again if I want to get comfortable with the tone and sentence pattern. The final notes summarized all the vocab neatly. Thank you.

Es un curso que de acuerdo al nivel, considero que se encuentra bien estructurado para que personas como yo que nunca habian tenido la oportunidad de practicar este idioma tan hermoso, estoy seguro que me va a ser de gran utilidad en mi desarrollo profesional.

Excelente curso para iniciar la profesora explica muy bien y todas las herramientas son perfectas para el progreso en el aprendizaje del idioma. Agradezco a Coursera y la Universidad de Pekín por aportarme este curso para mí aprendizaje de este gran idioma chino.