The course is a set of 10 short stories. Each story is an independent course. You are going to learn new vocab, characters and discuss each story by asking and answering questions.
Tingdong Chinese teaching method is to learn from context. You will never need to remember a single word somewhere in the universe but instead in a short story where you can remember all about it.
The course is titled for beginners because the type and length of stories are for children and thus the sentence structures and the topics are easy and not complicated, otherwise the vocabulary included cover the range of all levels.
In brief, the course teaches the following:
133 key Chinese characters
135 key Chinese words
186 Questions & Answers
In details, the characters and words you will be learning are spread out throughout the course as follows:
小马过河:14 characters + 15 words.
老鼠和黄鼠狼:19 characters + 17 words
小壁虎借尾巴:16 characters + 10 words
狼和七只小羊:10 characters + 17 words
没礼貌的小狗:9 characters + 12 words
一起去旅行:12 characters + 16 words
小蝌蚪找妈妈:8 characters + 9 words
掰玉米比赛:10 characters + 5 words
鱼和鱼鹰: 21 characters + 17 words
任性的母鸡: 14 characters + 17 words
Based on each story, the Q/A discussion as follows:
小马过河: 22 Questions + Answers
老鼠和黄鼠狼: 20 Questions + Answers
小壁虎借尾巴: 20 Questions + Answers
狼和七只小羊: 23 Questions + Answers
没礼貌的小狗: 20 Questions + Answers
一起去旅行: 17 Questions + Answers
小蝌蚪找妈妈: 17 Questions + Answers
掰玉米比赛: 12 Questions + Answers
鱼和鱼鹰: 19 Questions + Answers
任性的母鸡: 16 Questions + Answers