How to say "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" in Chinese

[JellybeansJumping]

这太好了！ 谢谢！This is a great video! The way you wrote out the tones and said them slowly the first time really helped me! I'm really grateful you took the time to post this, thank you! :)

[amyaisha]

★★★★★　I was looking for this. I had picked up the 一闪一闪亮晶晶 from listening to people sing but could never make out the rest. Your tutorial was perfect

[Riyokintyu]

My girlfriend taught this to me. Once she sang it in Chinese while I sang it in English at the same time.

[gta3skilled]

I couldent ceep up

[vidaripollen]

pl do more nursery rhymes for us.

[bryannaish]

do u have any sugestions for sites i can go to to learn to read write and speak in chineese? My friend is trying to teach me, she just moved here from China about a year ago, but shes really unconsistant with helping me, and I really want to learn.

[benben99100]

Thanks that was informative while entertaining.

[benjerman92]

Thank you very much for making this video,

Not only did I learn to sing twinkle little star in chinese,

but i learned what the whole thing was about withe the numbers between the parenthesis

[iiDougieii]

Hi, Thank you so much for this video. I am trying to teach my son your video. He is 2 and a half years old. He watches your video and tells me to play it over and over....thank you. Keep up your good work.

[kennywoo206]

awe come on! i thought it was going to be in Chinese Cantonese. Your video did not specify. Reminder most Chinese spoken in North America is Cantonese. can you do it in cantonese? Great video by the way, only if i could understanding. lol

[Rawrrith]

@kennywoo206 Most chinese spoken in NA is Mandarin. Where have you been living?

[iiDougieii]

@kennywoo206

Hi Kenny Woo 206,

this is true.

I am from Montreal Canada. Most of the Chinese in Montreal are Cantonese speaking.

[kennywoo206]

awe come on! i thought it was going to be in Chinese Cantonese. Your video did not specify. Reminder most Chinese spoken in North America is Cantonese.

[pipspot]

Thank you. Awsm. :)

[paopaowellwell]

yes she is funny and please next time when you recording video remember clean up your stuff in behind the camera not nice we're watching .

[Froz3nSeraphim]

Nice video.. you are quite funny :P

[jamesm406]

This is the first video I've seen of you, I like it! :)

[Synty1]

very cool

[888daedalus]

Really liked this Diana. I love entertaining little Chinese kids with stuff like this. Of course it will take repeated plays to get it right. Thank you for this little gift and screw the 'tard trolls or more properly I should say: "Bu Yao Guan Meio Sui Suen De Ren! Ta Men Hao Xiang Bai Ci!"

[888daedalus]

Ni Hao Diane! Xie Xie Nin Jiao Wo Men Ni De Yi Shi Wei Ban!

I have twenty plus years of using Mandarin but my grammer is still weak and I'm trying to clean that up so I can live in China someday. I have always liked little stories and poems to entertain Chinese children. I'll add a "secret" to learning Chinese and that is to develop an affinity (Yuen Fen) for the culture which helps greatly to learn the language.

Regarding the trolls: Bu Guan Meio Swei Swuen De Ren! Ta Men Shi Bai Ci!

[tarotschool]

V helpful !! Thank u

[Willyunleefan]

Hi I was really wonder if you can help me with one question is the word Xing in Pinyin mean Star ???

sorry for my bad english hope you help me :D

[MIGDHORSE]

@NuclearGun ...and your comment tells of yours.

[yaaoodotcom]

ru a fool or dreaming AWAKE what is this there is no poem it just ping pong ping and ping pong pong

PONG PING PONG

PING PING PING CHING PONG AND PING PONG

IS IT A POEM

[MIGDHORSE]

@yaaoodotcom are you fucking kidding me? how ignorant are you? stay wherever you are, so to not spread the pollution that is your existence on this earth.

[maxlee777]

u should at least tidy ur room b4 you broadcast yourself on thye worldwide web!!!!

[gallo90]

¿A qé hora vas al pan, reyna? LOL

This is so cool, thnx ^-^

[vincebassett]

hehe thanks so much =) I will get a few laughs this new years eve when I try to impress my Singaporeans frens with my mandarin. My pronounciation is terrible but I'm sure they will understand =)

[SwitchBladesgirls]

Thanks!

[SatireOfSarcasm]

this was awesome.. very helpful :)

[asangachandima]

Thanks!!! very good effort and a service!!!

[Boesendorfermusic]

you do a great job and verry sympatic! i should have listen to your video before recording mine (-;

[Rachel2000000]

ur english is a little to much irratating brat n my chinese is better than u i m a eurasian my dad is a chinese what lame twinkle star is this fuck you!

[DAbears5]

ur making fun of her english? urs is borderline incomprehensible. (that means i cant understand it)

btw hers is perfect

[danzbieri]

More irritating is your comment, so what if your father is chinese or russian or from god-knows-where, do you speak chinese better? or at least, can you sing for us your version of the song? Lame is your poor skilled brain that all can do is complain at this girl who wants to teach, so if you are better, please teach us "master"

[danzbieri]

srry my last comment was for Rachel2000. . . . etc, srry is there was been a misunderstanding -_-

[Auderianu]

And your English is aggravating. If you know Chinese as well as you say you do, you should just write a comment out in Chinese instead of embarrassing yourself with English.

[firthy321]

@Auderianu her first language IS English dumbass

[gopfunk]

Make your bed.

[LittleZDucki]

Thats Nice:o

[HellishLove]

ahh ur english is cute! haha

[curlyman600]

u r too cute!

[thepatuljak]

very nice, good work ! :D

[ChiibiiBubbiiJoii]

fluent mandarin!

[nikeshoxz08]

You're low tech pinyin subttiles are very helpful for those of us whou just can't get it..heheheh, THank you so much for your lessons.

[howardkorea]

谢谢你

I'm Korean who just came to China and was looking for some easy Chinese songs. I like the way you teach this song. ^^*

[iloveowlz]

xie xie thank you for posting this! i've been trying to learn chinese for a while now! xie xie!

[idiofa33]

tidy up your room!!

[carpediem4utube]

I have. And congratulations, it must feel so superior giving others orders. (sigh)

[idiofa33]

good girl.

[carpediem4utube]

hehe, you are welcome!

[jagSTARx]

Whats the point? ive just wasted 2mins and 46 seconds of my life. :( x

[carpediem4utube]

...and another 30 for posting a pointless comment ;-p next time please read the title of the video first, your web surfing efficiency ratio will go way up

[gaiayellowtrouble]

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!­

[Nicohaku]

Shut up ! No one isn't intrested in what you are saying! Why you have break great lesson with you stupid racist comments?! I think western guy's like you are just jealous, beacause chinese people are more friendly and cleverer people than you!

[Nicohaku]

Mandarin chinese has to be one of the world's most beautiful langague's!

[anko8aug]

ni hao

[theknowledgeseeker]

can you sing this song also...I just want to hear how it goes when it is sung....i like your printouts though

[carpediem4utube]

ah, I thought I'm being good for sparing you guys of my singing voice ;-p

[lenicherry2006]

I wish my chinese pronunciation were as good as your english!

[iconcells]

I like this ping yin video a lot, good job :>

[mra85008]

xie xie

[Bankbuddy]

Hi Diana! Niu Hou

[eigna1981]

do you mean that this is the correct lyrics of it?

[akasukimatashi]

mi how tee hee

[ic3sk83r]

AWESOME!!!!  ^^

[Sanch3zn]

一闪一闪亮晶晶，满天都是小星星 ... 你说什么我不知道 ...

[nicopetromac]

thanks for making it so clear for my daughter as it help her say it more correctly... I APRECIATE THIS VIDEO!!!!!!!!!

THANKS

[dumbjervin15]

???Excuse me what does dat mean?

[dumbjervin15]

Yi shan yi shan liang jing jing da jia dou shi xiao xing xing whatever I don't know

[toobjoon]

Hi Diana. Thank you for your video. Findally I found this chinese version so I can sing it to my twin boys. Keep up the good work!

[ChaunteLatriece]

Yes it was cute & very interesting!!! I ♥ the first part of the vid when u said something in Chinese...cute.

[blkoolkat]

this is awesome!!

although im chinese, i fing ur lessons very interesting :)

and i subscribed :D

Cheers!

[carpediem4utube]

Yeh!  Thanks!

[Marcelonico]

Love your lessons, I am a chinese student living in rome. Continue to share your language with us!

[ealado]

Thank you for sharing your lovely language with us, lovely lessons!

[bf1227]

cute.

[trishstratus111]

WTF??

[7Chino7]

Could you please sing it?...Pleeeeaaaaase? :)

[carpediem4utube]

Heheh, and scare everyone away? Here's a good link to a few fun chinese children's songs. Can you tell what they are saying? :-)

[MinakoC]

Oh, thank you soo much =)

[MinakoC]

Doesn't " Wo do bao bei shi.." mean "my precious is.." and " wo do min tsy shi.." mean "my name is.." and "wo bun tong ni jian sama" mean "i don't understand what you're saying"?

Plz answer.

[carpediem4utube]

the first two are pretty close, the last one i think is a little bit off:

I don't understand what you are saying = "wo boo dong ni ts-ay jee-on shir(t) meh".

cheers, d

[carpediem4utube]

Now if only someone can explain to me why Spanish (and other languages) have male and female nouns. That's a lot more weird to me as a Chinese and English speaker. ;-p

[TefJLives]

There is no reason for male and female nouns. If you're really into that type of masochism, try Russian. 3 genders(neutered is the third, believe it or not, actually they say neuter I think), millions of irregular verbs, and declining nouns into 6 cases. Chinese is much nicer. Thanks for your help. I like that, xing xing for star, it's cute.

[carpediem4utube]

Oy! ;-p

[ricardoruizserna]

that's true Diana, in my natal language (spanish) we have to make a difference between male and female ("el"=he "ella"=she, even in english you find differences: "este libro es de el"="this book is his book", "este libro es de ella"="this book is her book", so you have to make a difference between a male and a female.

BTW. UR classes are very useful!!

Thanks!

[carpediem4utube]

Si! Pero, why is libro male since it can be owned by both male and female. ;-p Sorry that's the part I'm not understanding. Why is la mesa female, table is an inanimate object right? (Sorry I don't mean to argue I think it's a very beautiful language - love listening to Penelope Cruiz speak it, heheh)

[ricardoruizserna]

yeah, well, that's true, I even don't know why "la mesa" (table) and "la botella" (bottle) and "la puerta" (door) are female, I think it is arbitriary adopted (language), and in the other side, "alto" means high, stop, strong, some cases altitude and so on. anyway, is cool to learn other language.

[carpediem4utube]

I know there are lots of redundancies but that's just the rhythm of the language I guess.

[carpediem4utube]

PS. In a lot of dictionaries "word pair" is translated as "phrase" which I think is not really accurate. Word pairs are usually consisted of 2-4 words and in combination means the same thing as (usually) a single English word. For example: shoo-bow = book bag = backpack; chi-an bee = lead pen = pencil; show bee-ou = hand watch = watch; jee roh = chicken meat = chicken (as in chicken as food); joo rou = pig meat = pork...

[carpediem4utube]

It's a unique feature of the Chinese language. Lots of "word pairs" are consisted of doubling up a character. "Xing" for example means star perfectly fine by itself but stars are usually referred to as "Xing Xing" in vernacular. "Liang Jing Jing" is a word pair so these 3 words are always used together in this order to express "shinny". Hope this makes sense.

[TefJLives]

Can someone please tell me why are there so many repeated words in this? Like

Jing(1) jing(1)

Xing(5) xing(1)

Gai(1)Gao(1)

I know that Xing(5) means "star", but all the rest I'm lost on. My dictionary stinks.

[leeks5229]

Hi Diana! It is wonderful you came out with a Mandarin version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. What is great is that you have both the Chinese characters and their equivalent pinyin. Great work!

Warmest regards,

Lee KS

[wb1gjk]

this was a great idea. keep them coming!

[hakuchu]

w00t ;D

[Bubbles1234567890]

yay!

[carpediem4utube]

好像宝石放光明

Hao(3)Xiang(4)Bao(3)Shi(2)­Fang(4)Guang(1)Ming(2)

Like the diamonds shinning bright

[leeks5229]

The 4th line should read: Like a diamond in the sky

[carpediem4utube]

高高挂在天空

Gao(1)Gao(1)Gua(4)Zai (4)Tian(1)Kong(1)Zhong(1)

Hanging above in the heavens up high

[leeks5229]

Up above the sky so high

[carpediem4utube]

满天都是小星星

Man(3)Tian(1)Dou(1)Shi(4)X­iao(3)Xing(1)Xing(5)

Little starlets fill the sky

[leeks5229]

Hi Diana! The second line should read: How I wonder what you are?

[carpediem4utube]

一闪一闪亮晶晶

Yi(4)Shan(3)Yi(4)Shan(3)Li­ang(4)Jing(1)Jing(1)

Twinkle twinkle sparkling lights

[leeks5229]

Hi Diana! I thought this line should read: Twinkle twinkle little star. Have you modify this line of the poem?

Warmest regards,

Lee KS

[carpediem4utube]

Yup I did - I "back translated" the Chinese version into English and tried to rhym (yikes!). Heheh. As you can see a poet I am not. ;-p