Here's a blog for Native English speakers to learn Mandarin from Tong Hua 童话 and 那些年 (Those years) Here's a blog for Native English speakers to learn some Mandarin Chinese from Tong Hua 童话 and 那些年 (Those years). Native Mandarin speakers: Please let us know if any of the Mandarin-English translation is wrong or can be improved. Native English speakers: Hopefully, you find these songs helpful to learn some Mandarin and also add two songs to your Mandarin karaoke portfolio. :-) http://siliconvalley408.blogspot.com/2017/09/chinese-song-those-years-lyric-pinyin.html Tong Hua 童话 is a good song to learn Mandarin because the song is nice and slow. The blog posts 3 different versions with 3 different ways of showing the pinyin and corresponding Chinese simplified characters. (The 1st and 3rd videos were sung by Mandarin learners not native speakers, so the pronunciation will sound strange to native Mandarin speakers. The 2nd video has one singer who is a native Mandarin speaker, while the other singer is a beginning Mandarin learner.) Those Years 那些年 is a fast song, but is interesting to learn because the music video has millions of views on YouTube and the movie itself "You Are The Apple Of My Eyes" apparently was a big hit in Asia. The captions were specifically chosen to help Mandarin learners learn as much Chinese vocabulary as possible with help from the movie scenes to provide added context. Furthermore, the heavy use of adjectives in the captions helps provide clues to which words in the Google translated sentence correspond to which English words in the original sentence. The adjectives help us identify the nouns because in Chinese grammar, the adjective and noun are connected by the word "de", which means if we know either the adjective or the noun, then we can figure out which pair of Chinese words corresponds to which pair of English words. Tying words together like this doubles our chances of knowing at least one of the words. Once again, the Mandarin-English translation in the blog was performed using Google Translate, so thank you in advance to the native Mandarin speakers if you find anything strange about how Google Translate translated anything. Mandarin learners, I hope the blog in the link http://siliconvalley408.blogspot.com/2017/09/chinese-song-those-years-lyric-pinyin.html helps you. I think it helped me a little bit. At the very least, I learned two songs I can sing in Mandarin. :-)