r/learnmandarin 1d ago

ECE teacher worried about pronunciation of two tigers

I really want to sing two tigers with my class but am loathe to misrepresent the language especially in a musical context, hoping to check with a mandarin speaker to get a green light red light yellow light to sing with my class of 3-6 yr olds (based in the US)

two tigers (nervous white girl remix)

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u/ta-cwms 20h ago

(nervous white girl remix) made me lol

liang in liang zhi lao hu - the L sound should come across clearer its sounding more like young
Kuai in pao de kuai - use a harder k sound (like how you’d pronounce “quite” with a hard k sound) right now it sounds like you’re saying guai
Qi in zhen qi guai - the pronunciation is closer to how you’d say the ch in “cheese” right now your pronounciation sounds like you’re say xi (or an aspirated s sound) instead

If i really wanted to nitpick i’d say aspirate the P more for pao and yan in yang jing sound closer to how you’d pronounced yen in japanese yen but other wise good effort! Hope i made sense