Structured lessons via multimedia

• 70 Chinese lessons with over 200 hours of learning materials. It is ideal for beginners and those who want to learn with total flexibility at their own pace.

• There are eight learning sections in each lesson for the online course as indicated in this chart. There is unique flash movie with subtitles in pinyin and English, which can be hidden or switched. You can simulate the tone for each sentence and learn to practice each character in video. You can practice speaking key sentences in role play and exercises.

Topics of daily life

All the activities for each lesson focus on one specific topic, and you will concentrate all the time on intensive practice for the topic.
Topics: greetings, finding hotels, ordering food, transportation, numbers, etc. For more details, see the Level Content.

Focus on practice

The Online Course attach great importance to language practice. Grammar is explained intuitively and vocabulary is built up gradually so there is no need to memorize any difficult rules or long lists of words.

Fun to learn

It is fun to learn Chinese with ChineseHour!
Every ChineseHour course includes a structured, step-by-step series of interactive course materials. Each on one interesting topic, our lessons use rich, interactive media to help you learn REAL Chinese in real-life situations. And the follow-up exercises employ a variety of learning techniques such as simulations, matching, role play, sentence production and character writing to help maintain your interest and enthusiasm in the learning process.

Learn at your own pace

Online Course provides a simple and effective way for you to learn at your own pace and on your own schedule. Online Course lets you learn best independently.