Top Coursera Language Learning Courses by Reddit Upvotes
Reddit is a social media and news aggregation website that ranks content based on a voting system. People worldwide post content (usually links, but also original content), and other users can “upvote” or “downvote” posts, pushing the most interesting content to the top.
It’s a place where you can find groups of like-minded people. Reddit calls these groups subreddits, and they cover different topics, including niche interests, politics, hobbies, and thousands of other topics people want to talk about.
Since its launch in 2005, the site has become one of the most popular social media sites with millions of monthly active users.
We've conducted analyses to find the best of Coursera from the depths of Reddit. This analysis has been conducted over 2.7 million Reddit upvotes.
Table of Contents
Top Language Learning courses
First Step Korean This is an elementary-level Korean language course, consisting of 5 lessons with 4 units, and covers 4 skills: Yonsei University | 2 reddit posts 59 mentions |
Miracles of Human Language Everywhere, every day, everybody uses language Universiteit Leiden | 4 reddit posts 40 mentions |
Chinese for Beginners Nowadays, there is an increasing number of people who are interested in Chinese culture and language Peking University | 6 reddit posts 28 mentions |
Learn to Speak Korean 1 Welcome to Learn to Speak Korean 1 Yonsei University | 0 reddit posts 17 mentions |
Grammar and Punctuation Course 1: Grammar and Punctuation Do you need to review English grammar? Have you forgotten University of California, Irvine | 0 reddit posts 18 mentions |
Étudier en France Ce cours de français de niveau intermédiaire B1/B2, conforme aux exigences du Cadre européen de Référence École Polytechnique | 3 reddit posts 26 mentions |
TESOL Certificate, Part 1 TESOL Certificate, Part 1: Teach English Now Arizona State University | 0 reddit posts 10 mentions |
Learn Mandarin Chinese Learn Mandarin Chinese Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 0 reddit posts 6 mentions |
Arizona State University TESOL Launch Your Career as an English Teacher Arizona State University | 0 reddit posts 9 mentions |
Technical Writing The course develops technical writing skills necessary to communicate information Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology | 1 reddit posts 5 mentions |
More Chinese for Beginners This is an advanced course for Chinese for beginners Peking University | 0 reddit posts 5 mentions |
Writing in English at University Acquiring good academic research and writing skills early on is essential for your success both at university Lund University | 1 reddit posts 6 mentions |
Writing for Young Readers This course is for curious students and aspiring authors with a passion for writing for young Commonwealth Education Trust | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Pluralidades em Português Brasileiro Pluralidades em Português Brasileiro is a five-week long online self-access course whose aim Universidade Estadual de Campinas | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Mandarin Chinese 1 Mandarin Chinese 1: Chinese for beginners is a beginner's course of Mandarin Chinese Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
American Deaf Culture This is a six-week course providing a historical overview of the American Deaf community and its evolving University of Houston | 1 reddit posts 1 mentions |
English for Career Development Welcome to English for Career Development, a course created by the University of Pennsylvania, and University of Pennsylvania | 0 reddit posts 6 mentions |
Successful Interviewing The goal of hiring managers is not just to hire people who need a job University of Maryland, College Park | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Chinese for HSK 4 大家好！Hi, everyone, welcome to join our Chinese for HSK Level 4 course Peking University | 0 reddit posts 3 mentions |
Chinese for HSK 5 HSK五级课程是一门通过HSK五级的学习提高学习者的汉语水平，进而在HKS五级考试中取得好成绩的课程。 HSK五级慕课课程共12周，分为两部分。 Peking University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Learning Chinese This is a six-week introductory course in Mandarin Chinese conversation National Taiwan University | 0 reddit posts 4 mentions |
Academic Listening and Note-Taking This course will help non-native English speakers improve their listening and note-taking University of California, Irvine | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
English for Journalism Welcome to English for Journalism, a course created by the University of Pennsylvania, and funded by University of Pennsylvania | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Grant Proposal The course provides guidance on developing a strong application that will allow Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Tricky American English Pronunciation In this course, you’ll practice the sounds of American English that might sometimes be University of California, Irvine | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Chino básico Este es el primer curso del Programa Especializado Chino básico para hispanohablantes: lenguaje y Arizona State University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Write Professional Emails in English This is a course to help you write effective business emails in English Georgia Institute of Technology | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Business English Communication Skills Build English Skills for Business University of Washington | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Towards language universals through lexical semantics The aim of the online course: • To teach the students to identify semantic systems and systemic processes in the HSE University | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Русский как иностранный Авторский коллектив курса «Русский как иностранный: B1+ Saint Petersburg State University | 1 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Speak English Professionally Do you want to speak better English? This course will help you reach that goal Georgia Institute of Technology | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Русский как иностранный This course is taught in Russian language Saint Petersburg State University | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Chinese Characters for beginner 汉字 Welcome to "Chinese Characters for beginner" Peking University | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
是誰在說話 -- 可愛的臺灣。（Intermediate Chinese） This course uses four scenic locations in Taiwan as the main topics National Taiwan University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Русский язык как иностранный B2-2 Курс по русскому языку как иностранному В2-2 предназначен для тех, кто хочет усовершенствовать Saint Petersburg State University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Русский как иностранный B2-1 Курс по русскому языку как иностранному В2-1+ предназначен для тех, кто хочет Saint Petersburg State University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Translation in Practice This course offers you basic but valuable techniques used by a good translator in the translation between Nanjing University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
English for Media Literacy Welcome to English for Media Literacy, a course created by the University of Pennsylvania, and University of Pennsylvania | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Chinese for HSK 6 HSK六级课程旨在通过学习HSK六级相关内容提高学习者的汉语水平，并帮助学习者在HSK六级考试中获得好成绩。 HSK六级慕课课程共12周，分为两个部分。 Peking University | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Chinese for HSK 1 Nǐ hǎo Peking University | 1 reddit posts 11 mentions |
Improve Your English Communication Skills Improve Your English Communication Skills Georgia Institute of Technology | 0 reddit posts 9 mentions |
Russian for beginners А1. Русский язык Enroll for free Saint Petersburg State University | 0 reddit posts 4 mentions |
Learn English Enroll for free Tsinghua University | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Japanese for beginners 1 Japanese language has become extremely popular among learners in recent years, since it is the Saint Petersburg State University | 0 reddit posts 3 mentions |
Learn English Master Intermediate Grammar University of California, Irvine | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Spanish Vocabulary ¡Hola University of California, Davis | 0 reddit posts 3 mentions |
Learn English Gain Confidence Using Advanced Grammar Structures University of California, Irvine | 0 reddit posts 4 mentions |
A Bridge to the World This course is an introductory course to Korean language that aims to cultivate basic communication Sungkyunkwan University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
A Bridge to the World This course is designed for anyone who wants to learn Korean Sungkyunkwan University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Learn Spanish Learn Spanish University of California, Davis | 0 reddit posts 4 mentions |
Русский как иностранный Усовершенствуйте свои знания русского языка Saint Petersburg State University | 1 reddit posts 7 mentions |
Learn English Start Learning English Today University of California, Irvine | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Chinese for HSK 3 PART I 大家好！Hi, everyone, welcome to join our Chinese for HSK Level 3 course Peking University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Learn Chinese Chinese For HSK (Level 1-3) Peking University | 1 reddit posts 16 mentions |
Our methodology
We conducted this analysis by "ranking things based on social signals"
It's the result of mining Reddit posts and comments. The analysis looked at all (url-based) posts and comment mentions of Coursera courses on Reddit, ranking each course based on Reddit score, and showing each course with its top Reddit mentions.
Course Score is calculated with a slightly modified version of a simple popularity / age calculation.
course_score = sum(mention_scores) / course_age
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