CHINA 201RIntermediate Chinese 1

86% liked it56% easy93% useful

From 29 ratings and 9 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

• this course is tremendously useful. coming from china120, it wasn't too hard, though i did do slightly worse in this course compared to the former. i found myself finally able to read the messages my grandpa sends me on wechat, literally almost cried when i realized that. if you want to relearn chinese, this is a good course. it wasn't too easy, definitely not a free 90, but not too difficult either. my prof was AMAZING, i loved her anecdotes and personality, classes were fun! :)

  Apr 2025 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

• this course was very fun and extremely useful. being someone who grew up in a chinese household but only knew how to speak and listen, this made me feel more connected to both my peers and my family members. i can write more characters, read some of the newspaper, etc. the course was made of quizzes and homework due each week which reinforced what we learned that week. you'd be forced to talk to your classmates in chinese, which i liked. professor was very nice as well, and understanding. however, we are taught simplified with erhua which is the beijing standard. i don't use erhua at home so it was certainly weird to have to be taught that.

  Jul 2024 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

• The coursework is very manageable but there is a lot of memorization involved, obviously. I liked the instructor.

  Dec 2022 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

• Quite hard. Lots of characters to memorize every week. Ended up learning a lot and my writing improved significantly.

  Feb 2022 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

• Definitely useful, but the difficulty level depends on your prof entirely. One prof just goes over the new words and reads the passages with you. The other gives you a dictation worth a decent chunk of your final mark every single week based on the new words. One prof just checks that you've completed the homework to the best of your abilities and gives you the completion mark. The other looks at your homework like she's proofreading your essay to get into grad school and grades it accordingly. You can get 50% for completing your homework sometimes. Yes, half a mark for 100% completion. Other than that, the vocab and grammar really starts to pick up in 201 so you need to invest a lot of…

  Oct 2019 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this