Learner Reviews & Feedback for Chinese for Beginners by Peking University
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Thanks Coursera for giving me such an opportunity to learn this course,the Teacher was excellent ,the way she teaches us was really helpful to understand and easier for us.... thanks, xiexie.. :-)
UA
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This is fantastic effort from Peking University, for those who want to learn Chines. it just amazing. chines is very interesting language.....where we need to care of even sounds of a sentence......
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By Shikha
•Aug 14, 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 14, 2022
It helps, but doesn't cover everything
By Beatriz C
•Jan 30, 2019
good teacher but i not a great course
By Susan K
•Apr 8, 2016
Pretty good course for beginners.
By Antariksha M
•Aug 31, 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 16, 2020
questionarios faciles
By Ashley C
•Nov 29, 2018
its terrible but okay
By Edward K
•Nov 29, 2020
I learned in chinese
By Jorge A C V
•Jul 30, 2016
Sub in spanish plz
By DIALLO A D
•May 13, 2019
Très instructif
By Elisabet D M
•Nov 6, 2015
Good course :)!
By Nay M
•Apr 17, 2022
Good For basic
By Deleted A
•Apr 12, 2020
it was good
By Estefanía L M
•Apr 2, 2021
Muy bien.
By Thupten P
•Apr 16, 2018
good job
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!
By Jenny
•Oct 12, 2015
I thought she was a nice Teacher but Didn't teach the Basics steps into speaking & learning chinese .
If she had started with ABC alphabet how to write & speak the first week then taught to sound each letter out in different pitches of volume 2week then to sentences building 3rd week so on .
it would had been much more helpful I believe ...
I sad that i had to leave the course b/c it seem and look like a great obertonty ... but it went to fast didn't cover what i Expected it would.. :(
By Kobi K C
•Sep 11, 2015
The whole course is basically a short topic based phrasebook being read-out and over-explained in English. Since I already speak English, this isn't very useful. The course contains no dialogues, or any real situations where vocab's being reviewed. I found the exercise nitpicky and confusing, and there's no indication nor review of what actually you did wrong. Better just use an audio-phrasebook and repeat it using the same time.