Mandarin learning guide
Learn with 也可以
This guide follows the song’s repeated reassurance that feelings, loss, and even giving up can be allowed. The lyrics move from private struggle toward a gentler acceptance of being alone, grieving, and letting go.
What to listen for
The lyrics speak directly to someone under emotional strain and repeatedly offer permission: to give up, to lose, to cry, or to be willful. Alongside that permission, the song also warns against emotional pressure and suppression, and it ends by returning to a grounding idea: even if one is alone, there is still oneself. The Mandarin is especially useful for learning how repetition builds reassurance and how contrast words like 就算, 还, and 最后 shape the message.
- Recognize how 也可以 changes a sentence from possibility into permission
- Understand how the lyric contrasts struggle with comfort using repeated structures
- Use several core expressions from the song in new, natural Mandarin sentences
How the song moves
Opening struggle
The first lines describe being left alone, forcing a smile, and not wanting to give up.
Reassurance and release
The chorus repeatedly gives permission to let go, cry, lose, or be willful, while warning against emotional pressure.
Closing grounding thought
The ending returns to the idea that even when alone, a person still has themself.
Translation choices
就算你想放弃也可以 失去也可以
- Natural English
- Even if you want to give up, it’s okay to let go.
- Why
- This keeps the song’s permission-based tone and preserves 也可以 as ‘it’s okay to…’ rather than a stronger command or judgment.
别再苦苦压抑 锁上情绪心会更封闭
- Natural English
- Don’t keep suppressing your emotions; locking them away will make your heart even more closed off.
- Why
- The line is a warning, so the English needs to stay direct. ‘锁上’ works here as ‘lock away,’ matching the image of emotional closing.
就算一个人 至少还有自己
- Natural English
- Even if you’re alone, at least you still have yourself.
- Why
- This rendering stays close to the lyric’s final grounding contrast: loneliness is acknowledged, but self-support remains.
Useful Mandarin from the song
Here it gives permission after a condition, softening the sentence into reassurance rather than instruction.
This verb describes holding back feelings or reactions. In the lyric, it warns that suppressing emotions makes the heart more closed off.
The lyric allows even this behavior as part of emotional release, so the word is framed gently rather than as a criticism.
This phrase marks the emotional pivot in the ending: even if one thing is lost, another basic support remains.
Listen closely
- Listen for the repeated structure 就算…也可以, which turns hard feelings into permitted feelings.
- Notice how the song often pairs contrast words such as 却 and 最后 to move from struggle to acceptance.
- Pay attention to the repeated line ending with 自己, which gives the song a grounding, self-supporting close.
Check your understanding
Which phrase in the chorus gives permission instead of pressure: 也可以, 失去, or 无助?
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也可以.
What is the emotional effect of 就算一个人 至少还有自己?
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It acknowledges being alone but ends with a grounded sense of self-support.