你好,雪人先生 Hello, Mr. Snowman

Chinese with pinying

I’m not a fan of snow and cold but this year I really wished we can have some white magic for this story. Well, we had just enough snow and the snow lasted just long enough so we could make a snowman and have a snow ball fight.

Chinese with English Subtitles

We celebrated Chinese New Year this weekend, the official start of the Spring. Looking out the window, all the snow has melted away. But the memory of this winter – a day off from school and work, my surprise that Chantal fit into her older sister’s snow suit, a foot of snow on the driveway that became a toboggan lane, and the children’s attempt to eat snow – is sealed with this short poem. It also completes my Four Seasons series, one poem for each season.

Again, Emilyn read this poem without difficulty. Her reading is improving and she is also interested in Chinese books that she can read on her own. It’s not easy fitting all the languages into our daily routine. She reads French books assigned by her school teacher, and loves Roald Dahl’s series of The Big Friendly Giant in English.  I am in continuous search for Chinese books and story ideas. Well, this is a good problem to tackle.

Here is the poem. Happy reading!

你好, 雪人先生! nǐ hǎo,  xuě rén xiān shēng!

Hello, Mr. Snowman 

冬天到了，下雪了 dōng tiān dào le, xià xuě le

Winter is here, it is snowing

雪是白白的  xuě shì bái bái de

snow is white

從天空飄下來 cóng tiān kōng piāo xià lái

drifting down from the sky 

軟軟的 ruǎn ruǎn de

snow is soft

停在樹上、草地上  tíng zài shù shàng, cǎo dì shàng

landing on the trees, on the grass

也停在我的頭上、手上  yěi tíng zài wǒ de tóu shàng, shuǒ shàng

also landing on my head, my hands

看一看  kàn yī kàn

have a look

雪花亮晶晶  xuě huā liàng jīng jīng

snow flake is sparkling

拿一拿 ná yī ná

take a hold

雪花結成一個球  xuě huā jié chéng yī ge qiú

snow forms into a ball

打雪仗！ dǎ xuě zhàng

snow ball fight!

滾一滾  gǔn yī gǔnr

roll it up

雪球變大  xuě qiú biàn dà

snow ball grows bigger

一個、兩個，疊起來  yī ge, liáng ge, dié qǐ lái

one, two, stack them up

加兩個石頭眼睛  jiā liáng ge shí tóu yǎn jīng

add two pebbles as eyes

兩個樹枝手臂 liáng ge shù zhī shǒu bài

two twigs as arms

別忘了肚子上的鈕扣 bié wàng le dù zi shàng de niǔ kòu

don’t forget the button on the belly

你好, 雪人先生! nǐ hǎo,  xuě rén xiān shēng!

hello, Mr. Snowman!