I am a System Engineer for a US firm that sells in Asia. On my last trip to China, I was frustrated by the business dinners which are spoken exclusively in Mandarin while I sit silent. Chineselearnonline.com was exactly what I needed to decide to seriously try to learn the language. I had to recently go back to the beginning when I decided I wanted to also learn characters but I am back to level 5 now.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to learn on your site. It has really had a major influence on my engineering skills and my work ethic.

Stephen J., Systems Engineer, USA

I bought a 3x download course from you a few weeks ago. I have finished with all the lessons in level 3, and am halfway through level 4. I just wanted to give you a bit of feedback to the program.

I must admit, I am very impressed with the level and professionality of the course. Some of the things I particularly like (in no apparent order):

• - Building on previous lessons, both in vocab and in continuing going over the same topic for 2-3 lessons to let it sink in. Eg. the election and moving apartments stuff.
• - The great variety of topics covered
• - The great presenters!
• - Using Chinese to explain Chinese (with you giving the occasional English translation of difficult words or subjects near the end)
• - Being able to have the PDFs of Characters, Pinyin and English as seperate files. This really makes it hard for you to sneak a peak when there is stuff you dont understand.
• - The lists of new words and characters
• - The interactive premium content, mainly the podcasts with answering questions in Chinese and translating from English

Keep up the good work, you guys are doing a fantastic job.

Jan A., Australia

Just thought I’d drop another line to say that I think CLO is the best! There is so much repetition that my understanding is becoming more “instinctive”, and I’m preparing for each lesson in advance now. I think the Level 4 method is a good way forward !

Graham S., Pharmacist, England

I just love this course and tell everybody about it at the Chinese school where I have a 2 1/2 hour-lesson once a week. It complements and puts me several steps ahead of my presential classes - everybody feels awed by the sentences I’m able to build, my vocabulary and sometimes the explanations about a certain term that even the Chinese teacher is not able to explain.

Dirceu C., Brazil

First of all, I’d like to congratulate you on your course online. I subscribed 2 weeks ago and have been well impressed by the quality of your teaching methods. I’m also a teacher and I really appreciate how you cover the different aspects of Mandarin Chinese.

Emmanuel P., Spain

I just purchased a one-month subscription to your site because I wanted to see how it works. I must say that I have already tried out some other sites, but so far I like your site best. I listened to the first 10 lessons before I decided to subscribe and I really liked the way you present the study material.

By the way, when I explored some of your premium feeds I was almost blown away by the massive amount of study material and its quality. I am planning on going to China next year in October and I would love to be able to speak some Chinese before I do. I hope your site can help me with it. I work as a freelance interpreter and translator, amongst other things for the UN and the EU. I must say, so far I have never come across a site that offered as much interesting learning material as your site. I’m a language addict and finding your site was like hitting a hidden treasure to me:-)

One of the most exciting features to me is the one where you can record answers to short questions and send them in. My recording is then checked by some of your teachers and I get a feedback from them. That’s just awesome:-) That would be really interactive.

Robert B., Austria

I think your service is actually quite good. I wish that I had this service when I was younger. I’m serious about improving my spoken Mandarin, so I subscribed to you site. I actually like yours because the lessons are short and concise (6-8 minutes) and Kirin and Raphael speak in Mandarin only. I also like your videos.

As an American Born Chinese (ABC) and native English speaker, I feel that Chinese Learn Online is really the BEST Mandarin Chinese learning websites! I studied Mandarin at UCLA for one summer and the National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taipei, Taiwan for 3 semesters. And though I feel that both UCLA and NCCU language instruction was truly excellent, I also feel CLO lessons are equally superb and even superior in many ways. If I could do it again, I wish that I studied via CLO before going to Taiwan because it would have made my language immersion travels in Taiwan and China more effective.

Also, as I’m a very busy person, I like how CLO is very versatile for learning Mandarin that fits my hectic schedule. I listen to lessons while I eat lunch in my office at work, and review online in the evenings at home. The interactive online learning is one of the best I’ve seen. I also download the lessons to my iPod, and I listen to lessons in my car, at the gym, or when I’m waiting for business appointments. For a person who cannot travel to a Mandarin speaking country for language instruction, with CLO, you can truly immerse yourself in many Chinese language situations in your home, office, car or practically anywhere.

And since the lessons have titles, as an intermediate level learner, I can learn or review a topic and vocabulary that is important to my life. I can use vocabulary that I know I would use right away insteadof studying a topic that have little immedate relevance to my real life.

Thanks Adam, Kirin and Raphael and everybody at CLO for making Chinese learning accessible to everybody in an easy, fun, and affordable way!

Peter Y., California, USA