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Mandarin · Chapter 8 · Lesson 19 · Vocabulary

Song: 两只老虎

Play it, read along word by word, then answer the questions. Every word is at your level - the song page teaches the few that are new.

Play the song and read along - tap any word you don't know. Then answer the questions underneath and the lesson completes itself.

两只老虎

liǎng zhī lǎohǔ

Two Tigers

Lyrics

wěi

New words in this song

Comprehension drill

4 questions on what you just read. Get one wrong and the story will show you where it says otherwise.

The melody is the anonymous 18th-century French round; the Chinese tiger words are an anonymous refill in universal circulation since the late 1920s, with no author ever identified. The tune entered China via the 1926 National Revolution Song, whose own lyricist is disputed; the nursery text that displaced it belongs to nobody. Source text. Translation ours.

Open the full song page for the background to the song.

Lesson 19 of 23 in this chapter

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