Course Description
This course includes 15 lessons designed for those who want to learn Chinese characters from the very beginning and get the correct and effective learning approach. After working through this course, you will be able to read and write 28 Chinese character strokes and 100 commonly used Chinese characters, and recognize approx. 300 related vocabularies and sentences. More importantly, with our clear and systematic instructions you will master the correct way to learn Chinese characters and lay a solid foundation for your future learning.
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As always an excellent course, well organized and clearly explained.
Do the names for the strokes come from calligraphy? None of my Japanese friends (nor of course me) was ever taught that the basic and combined strokes have names — this will be very helpful in tackling new characters for me. Looking forward to further levels and a stand alone App if that is in the works as well.
谢谢您郑老师。
非常高兴你喜欢我们的课！
You’right that the names of the strokes is indeed from calligraphy, which is used to ensure beauty in one’s writing. 我们正在做HSK Level 3 Course，以后我们也打算做App。
Please feel free to let me know if you have any other questions.
Great Course!
It was a pleasure to work through it.
Do you have a rough plan when the second character course is released?
I am so glad that you enjoyed our first level character course!
Currently I’m still working on the HSK level-3 course, and hope to release the sencond level character course in the 2nd half of next year.
Any news on the second level character course?
Alesabusada, 你好！
The official organization of the HSK recently announced that they will reform the current test’s grading system soon. This sudden change disrupted our current course production and we have to wait until the specific syllabus is released before we can restart the course production. Really sorry for this inconvenience! We’ll let you know as soon as there are new developments.
Nice
Thanks for the guidance through this course. I really enjoyed to get the chinese characters better known. I looking forward if you launch the second course of chinse characters. Well done…
Axel, 你好！
I’m very happy that you enjoyed this character course!
And we’ll certainly make the second level course of Chinese characters after we release the HSK level-3 course.
Just let me know if you have any other questions.
Hi Sir,
You’re an excellent teacher, so I wish you more elbow grease. I’d like to know whether I can buy the course through Wechat and how do I go about that. I added it to my cart, but can’t find where to pay for it. Thanks.
Zhukebe, nǐ hǎo!
I am glad that you liked my teaching, and we’ll send you an email to help you with the payment issue.
If you have any other questions, just let me know.
郑涛，首先，你的课程对我的帮助非常的大，让我有了一个非常好的中文基础。
我有两个疑问，希望您可以帮我解答。一，我从别的教材上发现，“口”或者其他类似的字中的“横折”笔划是“横折”而不是“横折钩”，冲突的原因在于有书法家在书写“横折”时喜欢加上一个勾以便于笔锋的运用和转换。此问题尤其在楷体中常见。
第二个问题，“心”字中的第二笔划，在其他的教材中我找到是“卧勾”而不是“捺勾”。同样的在“我”字中其他教材有标注是“斜勾”而不是“捺勾”。
我只是很疑惑，希望您可以帮我解答这个问题。非常感谢！
Sharon, 你好！
我们的课程能帮到你，我真的非常开心！
你是一位认真细心的学生，提出的问题既专业又有趣。下面是我对你的两个疑问的解答：
1. 如果你指的是汉字“口kǒu”或者它出现在别的汉字中，那么即使用楷体，它的第二个笔画也是“横折”，不是“横折钩”，这个你可以在我们的第6课和第11课中看到，比如“口”、“右”、“只”、“语”、“吗”等等。
还有一个汉字是“囗wéi”，但现在几乎只作部首出现，我们叫它“方框旁fāngkuāngpáng”。它看起来跟汉字“口kǒu”真的很像，但代表的意思是不一样的，“囗wéi”像一个四面都被围起来的区域。我们在第7课和第12课学习过的“田”和“四”都有这个方框旁。以后你也会看到更多这样的汉字，比如“国”、“园”、“回”等等。如果用楷体，“囗wéi”的第二笔就是“横折钩”。但如果用其它一些字体，比如“宋体”或者“黑体”，那么第二笔看起来就是“横折”。
我们在教学生识写汉字时采用的印刷体一般都是楷体，因为楷体是最接近我们手写体的。至于书法家的不同字体，这不是初学汉字的学生需要担心的问题。等你熟练掌握了一定数量的汉字的书写，开始学习书法的时候再去了解相关的知识也不迟。
2. 你说的没错，很多汉字教材都会把“心”的第二笔叫“卧钩”，把“我”的第五笔叫“斜钩”，这都是没问题的。我们在编写课程的时候也考虑过采用“卧钩”和“斜钩”这样的叫法，但其实这两个笔画都是从左上起笔然后往右下去的，只不过“卧钩”比较平一些，“斜钩”比较直一些，它们的书写跟“捺”是基本一致的。出于简化的目的，我们认为没有必要引入“卧”和“斜”这两个新概念，所以最后决定将这两个笔画都归入了“捺钩”，这样学生就不会有额外的记忆负担了。关于“捺钩”，可以参考《GB 13000.1 字符集汉字折笔规范》。其实对于学生来说，只要能比较准确地书写这些笔画就可以了，在会写以后笔画叫什么名字就真的不重要了。
最后，我对你的中文水平也有一个疑惑，如果你能自己写出这些话，那你的水平应该至少是HSK 5级甚至更高的，是完全没有必要学习我们的初级课程的。希望你也能为我解惑。不过还是很感谢你提出的问题！以后咱们多多交流。
郑涛您好，非常感谢您对我的问题的详细回答。我感到非常的荣幸。您的回答解开了我的很多困惑，让我接下来解答您的困惑。
以我目前的中文水平是肯定不能够写出所有的这些中文，因为我的未婚夫是中国人，所以他很大程度上的帮助我翻译并且修改我想对您提出的以上问题包括此条评论。在学习您的课程之余，他也有更近一步地帮助我学习一些比较地道的或者是您的课程没有涉及的知识，也是在这个时候我有了以上的这些问题。他说他小的时候在学习中文时并不像我现在这样在学习中文，很多具体的细节的知识比较容易忽略，就像我自己在学习英语时从未学习过国际音标（IPA）或者非常细节的语法，而他是那样学习英文的，他有时甚至于比美国本地人更注重语法的严谨。
最后还是很感谢您的回复，您和您的团队制作的课程非常的好，对我的帮助非常的大。
Sharon
Hello, why do i always have trouble logging in to see the lessons ?
GADEL，你好！
I see in the backend of the website that everything is fine with your account. Please make sure you log in with the email and password you used to register, then you can find your purchased course in “MY COURSES”.