Mandarin learning guide
Learn with 讓我們看雲去
This guide follows a short lyric that repeatedly asks why a girl is crying or sighing, then turns toward stepping outside and watching the clouds. The language is simple, but it gives you useful patterns for asking questions, expressing concern, and giving gentle advice.
What to listen for
The lyric moves from repeated questions about a girl's crying and sighing to a clear shift in advice: let go of unhappiness, forget dissatisfaction, step outside, and watch the clouds. Because the same set of lines repeats, it is especially useful for noticing how Mandarin uses parallel wording to build mood and then redirect the speaker’s focus.
- Recognize how the song asks two kinds of questions: direct and rhetorical
- Understand the main words for sadness, sighing, crying, and dissatisfaction
- Use a simple suggestion pattern like 讓我們 + verb to invite someone to do something
How the song moves
Opening questions
The lyric begins by asking why the girl is crying and sighing, and it repeats these questions across the later sections.
Inner-state guesses
The questions expand into hints that something unsatisfactory or sad may be hidden in the heart or inside.
Advice and release
The lyric then tells the listener to put aside sadness and dissatisfaction and go outside.
Outdoor turn
The repeated closing line ends with an invitation to watch the clouds.
Translation choices
女孩为甚么哭泣
- Natural English
- Why is the girl crying?
- Why
- This is a direct question matching the plain, spoken tone of 女孩为甚么哭泣.
难道心中藏著不如意
- Natural English
- Is she hiding something unsatisfactory in her heart?
- Why
- 难道 makes the line sound like a rhetorical guess, and 不如意 is best kept as a general sense of dissatisfaction rather than a specific event.
走出户外 让我们看云去
- Natural English
- Step outside and let's go watch the clouds.
- Why
- 走出户外 is an instruction to go outdoors, while 让我们 marks a shared invitation, so this rendering preserves both movement and suggestion.
Useful Mandarin from the song
This older-style spelling of ‘why’ appears in the repeated questions and is useful for asking for a reason.
This often introduces a rhetorical question or a surprised guess, rather than a normal information-seeking question.
The lyric uses it to say that sighing is not appropriate at a young age.
Here it means to set sadness aside in order to move forward.
Listen closely
- Listen for the repeated pattern 女孩为甚么...; the same question frame returns several times.
- Notice how the tone shifts from wondering about feelings to giving direct advice in 抛开忧郁.
- The closing line 让我们看云去 combines movement with invitation, so the voice sounds like a shared suggestion rather than a command.
Check your understanding
Which line gives the clearest invitation to go outside?
Show answer
走出户外 让我们看云去
In this lyric, what does 不如意 mean in context?
Show answer
Something unsatisfactory or disappointing