Dear listeners, hello, how are you? You're listening to Mandarin Chinese Lessons with Serge Melnik,

and this is Lesson 81. In our today's lesson, let's take a break from our usual

heart studies, and let's listen to a very popular Chinese folk song. The name of the song is Jasmine Flower.

The reason why I picked this song is because besides from being very popular and known to every

Chinese person in the world, it has also a very clear and simple to understand lyrics.

So are you ready to learn a new Chinese song today?

That's awesome. Let's get started.

And first we will learn the vocabulary used in this song.

Y-duo used in this song.

I-d-do.

Do is a measure word for flowers.

Do-e-d-do.

Let's say,

y-d-d-hua,

one flower. A-d-d-d-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h. say, This flower Very good. This flower smells very good.

This doofa ha'nishang.

Or is very fragrant.

This du Hua

very good.

A jasmine flower is called in Mandarin Moly

li Hua

Moly Hua

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