Sinosplice’s Christmas Songs in Chinese have been popular every year around this time for a while now, and one of the most common comments let has been, “can you provide the lyrics in pinyin?” Well, it’s actually quite a lot of work to assemble all the (correct) lyrics, which is why I hadn’t done it before. This year, however, I decided to leverage some of AllSet Learning‘s resources and finally make it happen. (They may not be perfect though, as some songs were manually transcribed, and the audio was a little unclear. So if you catch any errors, please leave a comment, and we’ll update ASAP.)
So for the MP3 audio, go to the original Christmas Songs in Chinese post. For the lyrics (simplified characters and pinyin), download here:
Note: Some of these songs (especially the religious ones) do not have easy lyrics! Think twice before you try to use some of these songs as study material.
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How would I go about finding “indigenous” Chinese Christmas songs?
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[…] you really want to go to town and do some carols in Chinese, John Pasden’s blog Sinosplice has some downloadable zip folders of mp3 files and pdf files of the lyrics of some popular […]
How would I go about finding “indigenous” Chinese Christmas songs?
I know, Christmas is not indigenous, but I mean songs written by and for Chinese that are Christmas related, either Christian or secular.
我是中文学生 (很初学者)。