Hello and nihao!  Welcome to this Chinese Made Easy Level 1 course. We're very excited to have you with us and here are a few things you know before you get started.  IMPORTANT: We offer the first 4 lessons of this level as an introduction course completely for free, if you haven't gone through it already we suggest you start with that one - search for: (Chinese In 9 Weeks: Introduction Course). How is it possible to learn 65% of Chinese in this course? Chinese is built around some essential characters that we at domino call building blocks. The first ones are so common that when you know the first 100 characters you can recognize 40% of Chinese. By the end of this course you'll pass 300 characters which will corresponds to 65% of Chinese. If you want to learn more I'd suggest you take a look at the following link: Character to understanding ratio That's it for now!  Welcome (again) to the Domino family and happy studies! /Felix and the Domino team