I love listening to Chinese songs, learning the lyrics, and impressing my colleagues at KTV sessions (in non-COVID times). I found it difficult to find good songs at first, thought I’d share some songs I’ve really enjoyed learning:
Jay Chou - 告白氣球
JJ Lin - 可惜沒如果
克麗絲叮 - 一百萬個可能
五月天 (Mayday) - OAOA
G.E.M.鄧紫棋- 句號
Namewee - 漂向北方
Does anyone have any other favourite songs/singers? I think the I list above ones are more popular where I live in Taiwan.
Personally, I’d love some classes that go through popular song lyrics. Would this be something other people would like too / LTL might consider in future?
That’s a great idea for a new topic on Flexi Classes: singing KTV songs
My favourite song is 回心转意 from 黑龙。pretty old now but the older generation always know it and it’s really fun to sing.
We learned 对面的女孩看过来at university so I sometimes add that one. It’s also super easy to learn because the vocab for the lyrics is quite basic.
And of course 月亮代表我的心 because well it’s just the most famous Chinese song there is and again very simple lyrics
Hi Chloe, as you live in Taiwan…
What about 胡夏?
那些年 is the only song that I met up to now. My daughter’s school once asked me to jump in and play piano for a Chinese delegation. They suggested this song to me. I’ve played it together with Mozart, hihi. To play for this delegation was my biggest success in my “career” as a pianist. Never had a public with everybody taking their phones up and cheering loudly with no end, and probably will never have again. I am a pianist and teacher, but only have a regional “career”.
I am also a singer, and my teacher is already used to me singing in “all” languages. But I think he will faint when I will present my first Chinese song some day.
Any suggestions what I could sing that is more like Western opera or classical song?
Oops! Accidentally posted before I finished my reply properly…
@Marine I just followed the LTL Spotify list, thanks! remember I tried to follow it a while back when I saw it on instagram but it didn’t work. For the disney songs playlist, I recommend this Mulan song (not sure of the chinese name but it’s “I’ll make a man out of you” in the english language version. I learnt this one recently using the FluentU app and love it! Mulan I'll Make a Man Out of You (Chinese) - YouTube
haha, 月亮代表我的心 is just very old - so the young Chinese dont listen to it really anymore I think? However everyone I ever met knows it.
I am currently living in Saigon and I just heard it here in a taxi a few weeks ago strangely. I managed to impress my driver by singing the lyrics.
wow! my favorite song in high school was Elva’s 一个人的精彩！relatively speaking, that was from awhile ago. so how do you know about it? lol
also listed are other of my favorites, like Wanting’s 我的歌声里 and Will Pan’s 不得不爱。 I went to college with Will’s younger brother as well (University of Washington).
you seem like you’re studying traditional chinese, which is also what i’m trying to improve on. have you been able to improve your traditional chinese with this LTL platform?
These two are not instructor-led (as they are just collections of songs) and the lyrics are machine translated but I still enjoyed them. I think it would be great if LTL could build something similar for Flexi.
Also - just spent the evening studying Chinese Song Lyrics , thanks Ben! I had the HSK 5 pack already but hadn’t noticed this expansion, super helpful and fun.
I love learning songs and the pdfs on this site are such a good way of learning when you’re tired/can’t be bothered to do something too difficult
Thought I would also share my two KTV playlists that I regularly update when I go to KTVs in Taiwan. These are made from more modern-sounding Chinese songs, feel free to listen and try to learn yourselves. I am around HSK 5 level but started learning songs when I was around HSK 3. I really recommend learning songs, it has been one of my favourite parts of Chinese so far and very enjoyable.
As on current situation and all the shops blasting the same 10 songs at the moment, please feel free to join me with those songs stuck in my heads for the last week.
Even if you don’t use Skritter, you can still export the vocabulary into Hacking Chinese, Anki or whatever SRS software you use (or just review the lists).
I went to KTV with some of my older work colleagues recently and they said I should learn these two:
一場遊戲一場夢 （王傑 (Dave Wang)
擱淺 （周杰倫）
For my music taste I prefer more upbeat/positive songs, which means I usually have to go sing with young people - I feel like most older songs are about unfulfilled love / partner leaving you / etc etc
Never had a public with everybody taking their phones up and cheering loudly with no end, and probably will never have again. 
