Frequently Asked Questions

We have three types of courses: Structured Courses, Skill-based Courses and Speaking Courses.

Structured Courses

• Day-1 beginner
• Chinese Level 1 (Well over HSK 1)
• Chinese Level 2 (Well over HSK 2)
• Chinese Level 3 (Well over HSK 3)

Skill-based Courses

• Pinyin Drills
• Tone Drills
• Chinese Character Writing

Speaking Courses

• How to Say in Chinese
• Speak Chinese Like A Native

I. For “day-1" beginners, or almost complete beginners:

1. start with the Basic Level of our Structured Courses and learn at your own pace
2. in the first week, finish all the Introduction Lessons of Pinyin Course, Tone Courseand Character Course.
3. finish the three courses mentioned in No.2 as soon as you can(Pinyin, Tone and Character) while learning the Basic Level

Also we have a Learning Road Map that introduces two options: Beginner Full Path and Beginner Fast Track.

II. For students with previous Chinese learning experience: 

1. The first few lessons and quizzes of each course are free to try out. You can decide which level fits your level the best.
2. The Final Exam of each course is also free to try out. You can take the exam and decide if you've passed that level.

We are always working on new content and will move up levels as time goes. Below are our current production plan:

1.  Current course

Currently we are working on our Level 3 Course, there will be 50 lessons and 400 videos in total.

We estimate to release new lessons (each lesson includes 3 topics and 4 videos) every few weeks.

However, we apologize that we are not able to name or guarantee the exact dates of release and completion. This is because the educational content in each lesson is similar but not exactly the same.

2. Future courses

After Level 3 we will continue to make Level 4, 5, 6 and more.

The amount of content in each HSK level increases exponentially. For example:

• The content of Level 2 is equivalent to: Beginner + Level 1 combined
• The content of Level 3 is equivalent to: Beginner + Level 1 + Level 2 combined
• and so on...

ChineseFor.Us does not promise exact release dates. Upon purchase, you will have access to the entire site, and you will have access to all future updates as long as your subscription is active.

All courses are designed solely by ChineseFor.Us, founded by Lili and Chuck.

It’s a product based of over 20,000 hours of both teaching and studying Chinese at college level between Lili and Chuck.

The lessons and quizzes are tailor-made for these purposes and/or with these features:

• e-learning with a classroom-like approach
• all language skills: speaking, listening, reading, writing and interpreting
• HSK requirements

Extra materials are always good.

But you don’t need to get any textbooks to learn our courses.

A well-designed traditional set of Chinese student books usually come with a textbook, a workbook, a character workbook, a CD for the textbook, and a CD for the workbook. It can easily cost you over $150 just to get the full set of books.

Our website provide you all of them.

Get membership here to unlock all content and features.

We strongly recommend learning Chinese Characters starting from Day 1.

The reasons are explained in the four Introduction Lessons of our Chinese Characters Course.

Simplified Characters are used in Mainland China and Singapore, while Traditional Characters are used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

We use Simplified Characters for our lesson videos, lesson pages, lesson quizzes, etc.

Once you are familiar with one of the writing system, it should be fairly easy to get used to and be able to read the other, because there are certain rules how characters are simplified. Here's a video lesson about 6 ways how characters are simplified.