Mandarin learning guide
Learn with《一定会》
This guide uses the song’s repeated rain-and-perseverance imagery to study how Mandarin turns hardship into resolve. You will practice comparisons, modal certainty, and key phrases for endurance and support.
What to listen for
The lyrics move from harsh weather and pressure to a firm promise of陪伴 and hope. They contrast struggle words like 侵蚀、气馁、孤独、命运 with reassuring lines about waiting, arriving, and flying together, so the language is centered on endurance, timing, and commitment.
- Understand how the song uses weather words to describe emotional pressure.
- Recognize how 一定会 and related phrases express strong certainty in Mandarin.
- Use a few key verbs and phrases for enduring hardship and offering support.
How the song moves
Opening storm
The lyrics begin with rain, wind, and thunder, building a scene of pressure and exposure.
Questioning hardship
The song then asks why discomfort should lead to discouragement, regret, or lowered spirits.
Promise and return
Later lines shift to a promise of being there on time, keeping company, and flying together.
Refrain-like affirmation
The repeated 一定会 lines reinforce certainty, value, and companionship.
Translation choices
将你整个包围 侵蚀你的发和背
- Natural English
- It surrounds you completely, eroding your hair and back.
- Why
- This keeps 将 as an action moving onto you, and it preserves the physical, forceful tone of 包围 and 侵蚀.
暂时收好羽毛待飞 到时我一定会
- Natural English
- For now, keep your feathers safe for flying; when the time comes, I will definitely be there.
- Why
- This rendering reflects the two-part structure: a temporary instruction plus a future promise. 待飞 is naturally expressed as readiness to fly.
一定会 一定有我陪你飞
- Natural English
- It will definitely be; I will definitely accompany you to fly.
- Why
- This preserves the repetition of 一定会 and the supportive meaning of 陪你飞, while keeping the promise concise and natural.
Useful Mandarin from the song
It describes something closing in from all sides. In this lyric, the rain is said to surround the listener completely.
This verb describes emotional weakening after difficulty. It fits the lyric’s warning not to give up too quickly.
It marks a limited period before the later promise arrives. The lyric contrasts present waiting with a future moment.
This set phrase expresses punctual arrival and reliability. It fits the promise in the lyric that the speaker will come at the right time.
Listen closely
- Listen for the repeated rain vocabulary: 雨水、雨、雨停了, which keeps the scene tied together.
- Notice how the line endings shift from hard sounds and pressure to softer promise words like 一定会 and 陪你.
- Track the repeated question forms, especially 有没有听/看 related openings and the rhetorical questions about why hardship should lead to regret.
Check your understanding
Which line gives the strongest future promise, and what key phrase signals that certainty?
Show answer
L0027; the key phrase is 一定会.
In this lyric, what does 暂时 show about the timing of the action?
Show answer
It shows the action is only temporary for now, before a later time comes.