Today, you are going to have a fun lesson 🙂 This lesson is based on a Chinese children’s song called 小兔子乖乖 Good little rabbit or Well-behaved little rabbit. Consider different ability and different levels of readers, I arrange this lesson by these following sections: Chinese text with audio, song, Chinese text with pinyin and audio, annotated Chinese text with pinyin, Chinese text with pinyin and English translation, vocabulary, grammar, common animal names in Mandarin Chinese, homework questions and new lesson and old lesson connection . After learning this lesson, you will not only learn a Chinese lesson with useful vocabulary, phrase, grammar, and many animal names, but also learn a very popular Chinese children’s song. You won’t able to learn this lesson in one day or two days, I suggest you spend one week to master it. It means you have to listen to the recording daily, review it daily, and at the end of the week, you will be able to see your big progress!
小兔子乖乖 Xiăotùzi guāiguai
Chinese text with audio:
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小兔子乖乖，把门儿开开，快点儿开开，我要进来。
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不开不开我不开，妈妈没回来，谁来也不开。
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小兔子乖乖，把门儿开开，快点儿开开，我要进来
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就开就开我就开，妈妈回来了，这就把门开。
The children’s song: 小兔子乖乖 Xiăotùzi guāiguai
小兔子乖乖 Chinese children’s song, pinyiin, English translation
Listen to the song version of the text:[audio:http://www.chinesetolearn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/listen-to11.mp3|titles=listen to]
Chinese text with pinyin and audio:
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小兔子乖乖，把门儿开开，快点儿开开，我要进来。
Xiăotùzi guāiguai, bă ménr kāi kāi, kuàidiănr kāi kāi, wǒ yào jìnlái.
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不开不开我不开，妈妈没回来，谁来也不开。
Bù kāi bù kāi wǒ bù kāi, māma méi huílái, shéi lái yě bù kāi.
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小兔子乖乖，把门儿开开，快点开儿开，我要进来。
Xiăotùzi guāiguai, bă ménr kāi kāi, kuàidiănr kāi kāi, wǒ yào jìnlái.
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就开就开我就开，妈妈回来了，这就把门开。
jiù kāi jiù kāi Wǒ jiù kāi , māma huílái le, zhè jiù bǎ mén kāi .
Annotated Chinese text with pinyin:
小[xiǎo, adjective, little] 兔子[tù zi, noun, rabbit] 乖[guāi, adjective, obedient or well-behaved ] 乖[guāi, adjective, obedient or well-behaved] ，把[bǎ, active voice marker] 门[mén, noun, door] 儿[ér, a suffix with no meaning] 开[kāi, verb, open] 开[kāi, verb, open] ，快[kuài, adverb, right away] 点[diǎn, little bit] 儿[ér, a suffix without meaning] 开[kāi, verb, open] 开[kāi, verb, open] ，我[wǒ, pronoun, I] 要[yāo, verb, want] 进来[jìn lái, verb, come in] 。
不[bù, negate word, not] 开[kāi, verb, open] 不[bù, not] 开[kāi, open] 我[wǒ, pronoun, I] 不[bù, not] 开[kāi, open] ，妈妈[mā ma, noun, mother] 没[méi, negate word, not] 回来[huí lai, verb, come back] ，谁[shéi, question pronoun, who or whom] 来[lái, verb, come] 也不[yě bù, also not] 开[kāi, open] 。
小[xiǎo, adjective, little] 兔子[tù zi, noun, rabbit] 乖[guāi, adjective, obedient or well-behaved ] 乖[guāi, adjective, obedient or well-behaved] ，把[bǎ, active voice marker] 门[mén, noun, door] 儿[ér, a suffix with no meaning] 开[kāi, verb, open] 开[kāi, verb, open] ，快[kuài, adverb, right away] 点[diǎn, little bit] 儿[ér, a suffix without meaning] 开[kāi, verb, open] 开[kāi, verb, open] ，我[wǒ, pronoun, I] 要[yāo, verb, want] 进来[jìn lái, verb, come in] 。
就[jiù, adverb, right away] 开[kāi, verb, open], 就[jiù, right away] 开[kāi, open], 我[wǒ, pronoun, I] 就[jiù, right way] 开[kāi, open] ，妈妈[māma, mother] 回来[huí lai, verb, come back or return] 了[le, particle to show action occurred, a past tense marker] ，这[zhè, here] 就[jiù, right away] 把[bǎ, active voice maker] 门[mén, noun door] 开[kāi, verb open] 。
Chinese text, pinyin, English translation:
小兔子乖乖，把门儿开开，快点儿开开，我要进来。
Xiăotùzi guāiguai, bă ménr kāi kāi, kuàidiănr kāi kāi, wǒ yào jìnlái.
Little rabbit well-behaved, open the door, hurry to to open it, I want to come in.
不开不开我不开，妈妈没回来，谁来也不开。
Bù kāi bù kāi wǒ bù kāi, māma méi huílái, shéi lái yě bù kāi.
Can’t open, can’t open, I am not going to open. Mom has not yet come back, so no matter who comes I won’t open it.
小兔子乖乖，把门儿开开，快点儿开开，我要进来。
Xiăotùzi guāiguai, bă ménr kāi kāi, kuàidiănr kāi kāi, wǒ yào jìnlái.
Little rabbit well-behaved, open the door, hurry to to open it, I want to come in.
就开就开我就开，妈妈回来了，这就把门开。
jiù kāi jiù kāi Wǒ jiù kāi , māma huílái le, zhè jiù bǎ mén kāi .
Open right away, open right away, I will open the door right away. Mom has come back, I will open the door right away.
Vocabulary:
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1. 小 xiăo, little or small. The opposite of 小 xiăo is dà 大. 小兔子 Xiăotùzi little rabbit; 大兔子 dàtùzi big rabbit.
2. 乖乖 guāiguai: 乖 guāi, well-behaved or obedient. Here, putting two same words together is called reduplication of adjective. The meaning of two words is the same as one word, it is just a habitual usage for some people. If you use just one word, it is OK too.
3. 快点儿 kuàidiănr a bit quick. kuài means fast, adverb; diăn means a bit; some people habitually use suffix r, r is meaningless. It is optional to use r.
4. 进来 jìnlái: 进 jìn, verb, enter; 来 lái, verb, come; together 进来 jìnlái, verb, come in. The opposite of 进来 jìnlái is 出去 chū qu. 出去 chū qù: 出 chū means exit, and 去 qu means go, so together 出去 chū qu means go out.
5. 回来 huílái: 回 huí, verb, return; 来 lái, verb, come; together they mean return here. The opposite of 来 lái is 去 qu. 回去 huíqù means return there.
Grammar:
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1 把 bǎ structure:
For example:
Subject + bǎ + object + verb
Tā bǎ fàn chī le.
他 (he) 把 (active voice marker) 饭 (meal) 吃了 (ate)｡
He ate meal.
With the bǎ in front of the noun, we know it serves as direct object marker, so we know the directive object is 饭 meal. We also know the subject is the person who did the action, for bǎ 把 is an active voice marker. Remember when using the 把 bǎ structure, the verb must be a transitive verb which takes objects. The object must be an actual or concrete object or person.
In this lesson you learn
小兔子把门儿开开
Subjet + bǎ + object + verb
Xiăotùzi bă ménr kāi kāi
小兔子 (little rabbit) 把 (active voice marker) 门儿 (noun, door) 开开 (reduplication of verb means open)
Little rabbit open the door.
2 Chinese negation:
不bù is used before a verb to form the negative in the present or the future. But remember, bù will never use with Yǒu (有 have); never say bù Yǒu 不有。If you want to negate Yǒu (have 有）， you must use méi 没。
Use 不 bù:
Wǒ bù chī 我不吃 can be “I don’t want to eat now” or “I won’t eat; I am not going to eat”
Tā bù xiě 他不写 can be ” He doesn’t write” or “He is not going to write”
Use 没有 méi Yǒu:
没有 méi Yǒu is used before verbs to form the negative in the past:
我没有吃饭 wǒ méi Yǒu chī fàn “I haven’t eaten”. méi Yǒu can be shortened as méi, so the above sentence can be: 我没吃饭 wǒ méi chī fàn.
Common animal names in Chinese:
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1.
English: Aligator
Pinyin: è yú
Chinese: 鱷魚
2.
English: Bear
Pinyin: xióng
Chinese: 熊
3.
English: Bird
Pinyin: niǎo
Chinese: 鳥
4.
English: Cat
Pinyin: māo
Chinese: 貓
5.
English: Cow
Pinyin: niú
Chinese: 牛
6.
English: Dog
Pinyin: gǒu
Chinese: 狗
7.
English: Elephant
Pinyin: dà xiàng
Chinese: 大象
8.
English: Horse
Pinyin: mǎ
Chinese: 馬
9.
English: Lion
Pinyin: shīzi
Chinese: 獅子
10.
English: Monkey
Pinyin: hóuzi
Chinese: 猴子
11.
English: Mouse
Pinyin: lǎo shǔ
Chinese: 老鼠
12.
English: Pig
Pinyin: zhū
Chinese: 豬
Homework:
1. Describe the size of animals by using dà and xiǎo (big and small).
For example 大老鼠， 小老鼠； 大 獅子， 小 獅子 …
2. Make two sentence with bǎ structure.
3. Make two sentences with Chinese negation in them. One uses bù and the other use méi.
4. If you learn the lesson 1 about color already, then you are welcome to use some phrase and grammar from that lesson to make some basic conversation, such as:
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A. 我喜欢兔子，你呢？
A. Wǒ xǐhuān tùzi , nǐ ne ?
I like rabbits, and you?
B. 我也喜欢兔子。
B. Wǒ yě xǐhuān tùzi。
I like rabbits too.
A 你喜欢什么颜色的兔子？
A nǐ xǐhuān shénme yánsè de tùzi ?
What color of rabbit you like?
B 我喜欢白色的兔子。
B Wǒ xǐhuān báisè de tùzi .
I like white rabbit.
A 你喜欢大兔子吗？
A nǐ xǐhuān dà tùzi ma ?
Do you like big rabbits?
B 我喜欢大兔子。
B Wǒ xǐhuān dà tùzi。
I like big rabbits.
