There’s an error in the course “HSK Level 1 - Introductory Mandarin with Audio” in in lesson 14 for word “151 - 175”, there are two words ‘zhuo1 zi5’ and ‘zhuo1’ which both means ‘table’ but the lesson will have both characters in the available answers when asking which means ‘table’. There is no way to distinguish the two so it’s a guessing game on which variation of table is the correct answer. Would it be possible to fix this?
These courses don’t work well with the app for this exact reason.
Just ignore zhou1.
Dear student of life,
I like many of your courses and am currently studying for HSK 4, where I think the HSK level 4 masterclass course of yours has high potential to be really helpful!
Sometimes I see some differences in grammar that I have studied so far, for example with 清 instead of 清楚 and especially with the use of 的 instead of 得. I’m wondering if those are some sort of changes in the colloquial language where both are admitted, or if one of those is simply incorrect.
And unfortunately for some phrases the audio doesn’t work properly.
I would be happy if you gave me some clarification concerning these problems.
(Are those actual sentences from native speakers or did a non native speaker invent them?)
Florian
I really fail to understand why, considering the existence of the “Review” functions on every course including HSK 1, why extremely elementary ideograms need to be relentlessly included throughout the whole HSK 2, 3 and even 4 courses to the point of making up most of the course?
If I want to review 人,可以,看 I can simply run a Review session of the HSK 1 course, right?
Anyone who needs so much repetition of elementary HSK 1 level characters shouldn’t probably be in the HSK 3 level course or shouldn’t be learning Chinese altogether.
Can we please remove those ideograms from those courses and only include in HSK 3 the characters that haven’t been already studied and reviewed in HSK 1 and 2? They are such a waste of time.
FWIW, you can simply ignore “words” that you already know - that’s probably the easiest way to go about this.
I am very aware. As a matter of fact that’s what I had to spend two hours doing. Ignoring senselessly over-repeated words. I just fail to understand the logic behind SO MUCH repetition of HSK 1 words when we could be learning more HSK 3 words that are not even included in the HSK 3 course (I suppose to make room for the relentless, senseless pounding of the aforementioned HSK 1 words)!
Hello!
Thank you so much for providing and keeping these courses up to date, it has been a great help. I recently finished HSK3 and really enjoy being able to read a bit, or even listen to what ppl in my show are saying nowadays.
When searching for HSK4, I found a lot of material.
https://www.memrise.com/course/984/hsk-level-4/2/ this seems to HSK4, but w/o the pinyin part
https://www.memrise.com/course/1209/hsk-level-4/ this seems to be HSK4 in the HSK3 style (first the character, another lecture the pinyin)
(It didnt let me post the link cause I am new) HSK4 additional words, in case you want to over prepare or just show off to your friends).
Long story short, would it be possible to label the recommended courses/retire old material? Or at least mark it in the introduction with a: updated version here LINK?
Atm, I think I ought to be taking the second HSK4 I posted?
I am not sure I fully understand you.
SoL
I just want to express my gratitude to the person who made and the person who maintains the HSK Red courses, thank you.
Native speakers were used to record the audio. As far as I know, the audio is complete and without errors and so it is possible that there is interference from another source. Chinese characters express concepts, therefore, it is difficult to give a 1-1 translation in English. This is why you may find discrepancies in between words given more so the fact that I have intentionally tried to make the English unique for each translation. If you post the sentences that are causing confusion I will either correct a mistake or offer some clarification as to why it is that way. Sorry for the extremely late reply.
SoL.
Just a heads up to anyone who is doing or has done the HSK 4 missing words course, a few changes will be made:
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Within the next week or so, any words which appear in HSK 5 by Ben Whatley will be removed from the course.
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Native speaker audio for every entry will be added.
Regards, SoL.
To all those taking the HSK 5 Missing Words Course,
During a database clean up, I ran into a problem. The only solution was a complete rebuild of the whole course. This means a loss of progress and I apologise to all those affected.
On a brighter note, the course now is duplicate free and soon will have complete native speaker audio.
The course can be found here:
HSK 5 Missing Words - by student-of-life - Memrise
SoL.