Course Description

As China, a nation of long-standing and rich culture tradition rises to be the economic magnate of the world, Chinese has become the second most learned foreign language in American middle schools, high schools and universities. Chinese is the language of business and management, government and education, politics and diplomacy, as much as the language of literature and philosophy. Being proficient in spoken and written Chinese would win you a prominent advantage in career opportunities in today’s world.

Are you a college student or adult open learner who cherished the hope to study college Chinese but hampered by the lack of time and exorbitant tuition to learn in a classroom setting? Have you been a middle school or high school student who found that 6 years of secondary school Chinese can only be tested into one year’s college Chinese in college placement test? This course is a perfect answer to your dilemmas: In as short as two months, you can learn the same range of vocabulary, grammar and situational dialogues, and achieve the same degree of proficiency as a classroom student enrolled for a whole year’s College Chinese Curriculum at beginners' level. You would save more than ten thousand dollars of tuition for such full credit course in one year, while greatly speed up your learning process, at the convenience of your home and time.

The instructor is Professor Hong Zeng, an award-winning professor of Chinese. She has taught Chinese at all levels at highly prestigious liberal arts colleges and national universities in America for 16 years. She has two PhDs in Chinese and comparative language and literature, and has published 5 books in these realms in America, well-endorsed by world-renowned experts and book review journals in her field. She had twice more than doubled the classroom Beginning Chinese Course enrollment in just one year. This course adopts the same methodology and simulates the same degree of student-teacher interaction as she has taught at College classroom setting for years.

This course is exceedingly thorough, methodological, and systematic, as well as easy and entertaining. It has altogether 18 hours. By learning this course, you will be good at Chinese sound and writing system, fluent in most daily situations, such as greetings, family, dates and time, hobbies, make appointments, school life, traffic, shopping, dining, weather, and party, etc. Hundreds of entertaining images will bring learning, reviewing, testing and application into quick circulation at every short turn as in the mode of immersion education. Following the beginning level of this online college Chinese course, there will be 5 courses at beginning , intermediate level and advanced level coming out soon. These six courses will allow you to learn altogether 3 years’ worth of college curriculum of Mandarin Chinese in just 6 months, and achieve the advanced level of Chinese which will allow you to be fluent in both daily and social topics, while save 30000 dollars of college tuition.

Professor of Chinese, English and Comparative literature

Hong Zeng

I am an award-winning professor of Chinese, English and Comparative Literature. I have taught Mandarin Chinese at all levels in prestigious American colleges altogether for 16 years. I have taught nine years as a tenure-track professor of Chinese and comparative literature at Carleton College, ranked No. 1 in undergraduate teaching in all liberal arts colleges in America, and have directed the Chinese program for two years at Hamline University (the first university in Minnesota). In both my second year coming to Carleton and Hamline, I more than doubled their Beginning Chinese Class enrollment. I have also taught at Swarthmore College, College of William and Mary and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Before I came to United States, I have taught English and American literature for 3 years at Beijing Foreign Studies University. I have two PhDs, one in Chinese and comparative literature from UNC, Chapel Hill, the other in  English and American literature, literature translation and second language education from Beijing Foreign Studies University. I have published five books in America (including two from Macmillan) on Chinese, English and comparative literature, film study, language study and language philosophy that are well-endorsed by world-renowned experts and book review journals in my field. I have earned 30000 dollars large grant from Asian Network in Chinese study.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • promo video 1

    • How to Study This Course

    • Introduction of the Course
  • 2

    Chapter 1: Introduction: Chinese Sound and Writing System

    • 1. simple finals and tones

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    • simple finals

    • 2. simple initials

    • initials part 1

    • 3. tone practice

    • tone practice

    • 4. initials part 2

    • initials parts 2

    • 5. compound finals 1

    • compound finals 1

    • 6. compound finals 2

    • compound final part 2

    • 7. compound finals 3

    • compound finals part 3

    • Special spelling rules

    • Special spelling rules

    • Pinyin practice a classical Chinese poem

    • Pinyin practice a classical Chinese poem

    • Basic Strokes of Chinese Character

    • basic strokes of Chinese characters

    • Chinese Character Stroke Order

    • stroke order

    • The Chinese Writing System

    • The Chinese Writing System

    • Basic Chinese Radicals part 1

    • Basic Chinese Radicals part 1

    • Basic Chinese Radicals Part 2

    • Basic Chinese Radicals Part 2
  • 3

    Chapter 2: Lesson 1 and lesson 2: greetings and family

    • lesson 1 vocabulary and grammar1

    • lesson 1 vocabulary and grammar1

    • Lesson 1 dialogue 1 text

    • Lesson 1 dialogue 1 text

    • lesson 1 dialogue 1 character stroke order

    • lesson 1 dialogue 1 acting video

    • lesson 1 vocabulary and grammar 2

    • lesson 1 vocabulary and grammar 2

    • Lesson 1 dialogue 2 text

    • Lesson 1 dialogue 2 text

    • Lesson 1 dialogue 2 character stroke order

    • lesson 1 dialogue 2 acting video

    • Lesson 2 vocabulary and grammar 1

    • Lesson 2 vocabulary and grammar 1

    • Lesson 2 dialogue 1 text

    • Lesson 2 dialogue 1 text

    • Lesson 2 dialogue 1 character stroke order

    • lesson 2 dialogue 1 acting video

    • Lesson 2 vocabulary and grammar 2

    • Lesson 2 vocabulary and grammar 2

    • Lesson 2 dialogue 2 text

    • Lesson 2 dialogue 2 text

    • lesson 2 dialogue 2 character stroke order

    • lesson 2 dialogue 2 acting video

    • Unit test lesson 1, 2
  • 4

    Chapter 3: lesson 3 and 4: dates and time;

    • Lesson 3 vocabulary and grammar 1 part 1

    • lesson 3 vocabulary and grammar 1 part 2

    • Lesson 3 vocabulary and grammar 1

    • Lesson 3 dialogue 1 text

    • Lesson 3 dialogue 1 text

    • lesson 3 dialogue 1 character stroke order

    • lesson 3 dialogue 1 dates

    • lesson 3 vocabulary and grammar 2

    • lesson 3 vocabulary and grammar 2

    • Lesson 3 dialogue 2 text

    • Lesson 3 dialogue 2 text

    • lesson 3 dialogue 2 character stroke order

    • lesson 3 dialogue 2 dates

    • Lesson 4 vocabulary and grammar 1

    • Lesson 4 vocabulary and grammar 1

    • Lesson 4 dialogue 1 text

    • Lesson 4 dialogue 1 text

    • lesson 4 dialogue 1 character stroke order

    • lesson 4 dialogue 1 hobbies

    • Lesson 4 Vocabulary and Grammar 2

    • Lesson 4 vocabulary and grammar 2

    • Lesson 4 dialogue 2 text

    • Lesson 4 dialogue 2 text

    • lesson 4 dialogue 2 character stroke order

    • lesson 4 dialogue 2 hobbies

    • Unit test lesson 3, 4
  • 5

    Chapter 4: Lesson 5, 6 and 7

    • Lesson 5 vocabulary and Grammar 1

    • Lesson 5 vocabulary and Grammar 1

    • Lesson 5 dialogue 1 text

    • Lesson 5 dialogue 1 text

    • lesson 5 dialogue 1 character stroke order

    • lesson 5 dialogue 1 visit friends

    • Lesson 5 vocabulary and grammar 2

    • Lesson 5 vocabulary and grammar 2

    • Lesson 5 dialogue 2 Text

    • Lesson 5 dialogue 2 Text

    • lesson 5 dialogue 2 character stroke order

    • lesson 5 dialogue 2 visit friends

    • Lesson 6 vocabulary and grammar 1

    • Lesson 6 vocabulary and grammar 1

    • Lesson 6 dialogue 1 text

    • Lesson 6 dialogue 1 text

    • lesson 6 dialogue 1 character stroke order

    • lesson 6 dialogue 1 make appointment

    • Lesson 6 dialogue 2 text

    • Lesson 6 dialogue 2 text

    • lesson 6 dialogue 2 character stroke order

    • lesson 6 dialogue 2 make appointment

    • Lesson 7 vocabulary and grammar 1

    • Lesson 7 vocabulary and grammar 1

    • Lesson 7 dialogue 1 text

    • Lesson 7 dialogue 1 text

    • lesson 7 dilalogue 1 character stroke order

    • lesson 7 dialogue 1 learn Chinese

    • lesson 7 vocabulary and grammar 2

    • lesson 7 vocabulary and grammar 2

    • Lesson 7 dialogue 2 text

    • Lesson 7 dialogue 2 text

    • lesson 7 dialogue 2 character stroke order

    • lesson 7 dialogue 2 learn Chinese

    • Unit test 3

    • final exam lesson 1-7