The course was very interesting. At this level of the Chinese course track, the class is harder than the preceding class and it does require more studying. In terms of my personal experience, I had a lot of fun with the projects that we presented and with the friends I made in the class.

In the class, we created several projects; one on a Chinese holiday, one on an idiom, and one a Chinese tv show. For this semester, we did not do the TalkAbroad video calls. From the Beginning class to this one, the majority of the tests switched from being in Pinyin to being in Mandarin characters, so there was more difficulty on tests.

The professor was amazing. He is very friendly and patient with students.

The advice I would give is similar to the one I wrote in the review for the Beginning class, in that studying is really important in order to memorize the sentence structure and words.

The Beginning Chinese course was a fun one. As an introduction to the Chinese language, the lessons are very interactive and projects are very fun. The sense of community and fellowship that I forged with my fellow classmates was amazing as we were all working toward greater understanding of the Chinese language.

The content of the class is very useful. The class has mostly has workbook and textbook exercises, which are able to be done weeks ahead of time. The projects are very interactive and help the class get to know one another . The quiz difficulty is on the easy to moderate side and you should be good if you have the material down and have studied. It is a very rewarding class because it helps prepare to speak to Chinese people, as you have a chance to via video call twice during the semester.

Professor Ren is an amazing professor. He is very kind, funny, and approachable. If you are confused about an aspect of an assignment and send an email, he will email back very quickly and help you out.

I would advise, as with any other foreign language course, that you study the terms and sentence patterns pretty vigorously. For me, I created some Quizlet decks and used some from others, for each lesson. Every day, I would go over the terms in match for each of the lessons until I succeeded in getting all of them right the first time about five times. That usually took 30 - 40 minutes but it was very rewarding when it came time for the quizzes.