Learner Reviews & Feedback for Chinese for Beginners by Peking University
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AL
Oct 4, 2015
Great!Chinese for beginners made simple and efficient. Would totally recommend it to anyone who is interested to learn a new language.Kudos to the entire team for putting together an engaging course
CS
Sep 27, 2023
This course was very helpeful and very well made. Amazing first course for people who don´t have knowledge of mandarin. Thank you to the teacher for the easy understanding classes and exercises!
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By nibrass
•May 25, 2020
The way of teaching is difficult to remember
By Shikha
•Aug 15, 2015
Course is enjoyable and interesting so far.
By Sutthinan W
•Jun 20, 2020
no pinyin to teach us so a little bit hard
By Haya W
•Jul 15, 2022
It helps, but doesn't cover everything
By Beatriz C
•Jan 31, 2019
good teacher but i not a great course
By Susan K
•Apr 9, 2016
Pretty good course for beginners.
By Antariksha M
•Sep 1, 2019
I would love to learn more :) .
By Andrea D
•Oct 19, 2016
Ok as intro to chinese language
By Kidus D
•Oct 3, 2015
It is intresting Course
By Tecla
•May 17, 2020
questionarios faciles
By Ashley C
•Nov 30, 2018
its terrible but okay
By Edward K
•Nov 30, 2020
I learned in chinese
By Jorge A C V
•Jul 30, 2016
Sub in spanish plz
By DIALLO A D
•May 14, 2019
Très instructif
By Elisabet D M
•Nov 7, 2015
Good course :)!
By Nay M
•Apr 17, 2022
Good For basic
By Deleted A
•Apr 13, 2020
it was good
By Estefanía L M
•Apr 2, 2021
Muy bien.
By thupten p
•Apr 17, 2018
good job
By Habtamu A
•May 28, 2025
Great
By Quỳnh N
•Sep 22, 2015
Good
By Зызыкин Г В
•Aug 25, 2020
还可以
By Nguyễn T P
•Oct 1, 2023
Ok
By Cherry K
•Jun 8, 2021
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By Axel E
•Oct 4, 2017
The course is helpful for learning specific expressions but does not provide a lot of building blocks. Phrases are provided as a block and often have to be deconstructed to understand which word means what, so that that word can be used in another context. For example: we are told that "kan shu" means "reading", but since "kan" means "to watch", does that mean that "shu" means book? There are also a lot of common endings to words; being told what those endings mean (e.g. "day") would help recognize unknown words in different context (e.g. hearing a word that ends in "-tian" indicates that we're talking about days, which would help understanding the general meaning of a sentence).
The quizzes are not challenging and do not help with the learning.
The most useful part of the course is the vocabulary list at the end of unit 7, but I could not find a way to download it. Too bad!