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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Chinese for Beginners by Peking University

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19,589 ratings

About the Course

Immerse yourself in the captivating world of Chinese culture and language with our ABC Chinese course for beginners. This comprehensive course provides an introduction to Mandarin phonetics and essential daily expressions, enabling learners to achieve a fundamental understanding and confidently engage in basic conversations. Our carefully crafted curriculum covers practical topics and real-life situations, ranging from exchanging personal information and discussing daily schedules to conversing about food, prices, city life, weather, and hobbies. The diverse selection of reading materials and interactive activities ensures a rich and stimulating learning experience, piquing learners' interests throughout the course. No need to worry about learning Chinese characters – this course focuses on speaking skills, making it accessible and enjoyable. Elevate your learning with a thrilling bonus feature: virtually travel to China and hone your speaking skills with our immersive game, playable on a VR headset or desktop. Embark on a scavenger hunt, talk to vendors, encounter fellow travelers, and explore a traditional market, all while applying your Chinese skills in a real-world environment....

Top reviews

SS

Sep 16, 2016

Thanks for this course. I like it and this language really so necessary for me and my job. My company in New Zealand - ESKA Ltd (www.eskaltd.co.nz, eskaltd.com) and we are work with aliens from China.

SA

Jun 16, 2020

Awesome experience it was a comprehensive and informative course. I learnt alot. Thank you coursera for providing us such a nice and global platform to enhance skills and knowlegde by sitting at home.

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By José A V M

Aug 16, 2022

Great course, great teacher.

By ดรัณภพ เ

Aug 15, 2022

very goo

By Vicky T

Aug 13, 2022

great!

By Nguyễn T H

Mar 30, 2022

good

By k11

May 22, 2020

Good day,

I did the whole course and personally I think it was fine in general, but there were some information which should be mentioned at my opinion, for example that there are differences regarding pronounciation between south and north china. In addition, I'm not sure about it, that there where pronounciation mistakes when it comes to tv programms, e.g. for the word like dònghuàpiàn or jìlùpiàn. The mistake where at the end of the word --> piàn. But it is possible that it just depends from person to person how to pronounce it. In any case it differs from other native chinese people from what I heard. It would be nice if someone can explain it.

In some cases I had problems to understand the professor what she said like "tongue marks". This was in a video in the first week I think, but she said those words in another video again and I could understand it there better, so at the end I could figure out what she said, but sometimes I couldn't.

All in all as I wrote, it was fine and learned something new. Thank you for the course. In chinese --> Xiexie ni ge womeng ze tang ke. (I omitted the tones --> too complicated)

By Boris R

Nov 14, 2015

Good course for beginners. In my opinion, its strong point is simplicity (it does not require much effort and yet allows you to learn something useful, and also makes you think that Chinese is not unbearably complex language after all) and broad range of topics (probably gives you all words necessary to survive short trip to China). What I didn't like in this course is lack of explanation: student is required to memorize entire sentences, but nothing was said about word ordering, personal pronouns and other basic structural features of language. I would also like to have more tests/ exercises with feedback, probably some review tests covering previous lessons.

By Keira P

Aug 17, 2022

Very useful for learning basics of spoken Chinese although sometimes the English translations are a bit outdated or grammatically incorrect as the presentation is clearly a few years old.

By Sumonrat N

Apr 24, 2020

I’m happy to learn and I want to study Chinese because CHINESE for me It difficult Thank You 😊

By Roni M

Mar 29, 2022

Maravilloso

By Joël K

Feb 23, 2019

Excellent

By Ivan K

Oct 26, 2015

i love it

By Edgar C

Nov 12, 2015

Excelent

By May M M A

Jun 17, 2021

Great!

By Gloria H G B

Mar 26, 2017

Xièxie.

By Quỳnh G N

Jul 23, 2021

useful

By Sapal O

Sep 16, 2020

great!

By Roshan R

Jun 14, 2020

GREAT!

By Rinrada T

Apr 25, 2020

thanks

By Jantana T

Sep 27, 2021

goodd

By Paing Z M K

Jun 12, 2021

good

By MISS P S

Apr 30, 2020

棒棒哒老师

By Jittakorn K

Apr 26, 2020

Funny

By Nhất b V

Oct 9, 2021

good

By Su M H

Jun 6, 2021

good

By Sai S

Jun 20, 2020

nice