When the students are learning their Chinese names, this is a nice song to teach in classroom. At the third repetition, the teacher can change the line 我的朋友在哪里 to a student’s name 在哪里.
我的朋友在哪里
wǒ de péngyou zài nǎlǐ
Where is my friend?
一二三四五六七
yí èr sān sì wǔ liù qī
1234567
我的朋友在哪里
wǒ de péngyou zài nǎlǐ
Where is my friend?
在这里 在这里
zài zhèlǐ zài zhèlǐ
Here, here
我的朋友在这里
wǒ de péngyou zài zhèlǐ
My friend is here.
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Lyrics with Chinese annotation for teaching and learning purpose.
我的朋友在哪里
wǒ de péngyou zài nǎlǐ
Where is my friend?
我的 (possessive pronoun, my) 朋友 (noun phrase, friend) 在 (preposition, at/on/in etc..) 哪里 (adverb, where)
一二三四五六七
yí èr sān sì wǔ liù qī
1234567
一(number 1) 二(number 2) 三 (number 3) 四 (number 4) 五 (number 5) 六 (number 6) 七 (number 7)
我的朋友在哪里
wǒ de péngyou zài nǎlǐ
Where is my friend?
我的 (possessive pronoun, my) 朋友 (noun phrase, friend) 在 (preposition, at/on/in etc..) 哪里 (adverb, where)
在这里 在这里
zài zhèlǐ zài zhèlǐ
Here, here
在 (preposition, at/in) 这里 (noun phrase, here) 在 (preposition, at/in) 这里
我的朋友在这里
wǒ de péngyou zài zhèlǐ
My friend is here.
我的 (possessive pronoun, my) 朋友 (noun phrase friend) 在(preposition, at/in) 这里 (noun phrase here)
Translated and annotated by Shu
The following is a cute video with many children’s songs combined:
Quotes about number / numbers:
“Sometimes I get depressed about my age. In March I’ll be 26. If man weren’t measured in numbers, but rather letters, I’d be turning Z. And then I’d be dead.”
― Jarod Kintz
“I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.”
― Patrick Rothfuss
“Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed, like all numbers, between two others, but one step further than the rest. They are suspicious, solitary numbers, which is why Mattia thought they were wonderful. Sometimes he thought that they had ended up in that sequence by mistake, that they’d been trapped, like pearls strung on a necklace. Other times he suspected that they too would have preferred to be like all others, just ordinary numbers, but for some reason they couldn’t do it. this second thought struck him mostly at night, in the chaotic interweaving of images that comes before sleep, when the mind is too weak to tell itself lies.”
― Paolo Giordano
“Time to go run the calories away, do away with all the numbers stalking you, throw out the bad habits and excess weight.”
― Alysha Speer
These quotes come from:
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/numbers
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