London Bridge is Falling Down is a well-known children's song. It has been translated into Mandarin Chinese, with a bit of a twist at the end.

Practice speaking the words to this song before you sing it. Speaking the words allows you to concentrate on the tones of each word. When singing songs, sometimes the tones are not clear.

Pinyin

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lúndun tie qiáo

lúndun tie qiáo, kua xialai, kua xialai, kua xialai
lúndun tie qiáo, kua xialai
jiù yào kua xialai

Traditional Chinese Characters

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Simplified Characters

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English Translation

London Bridge

London Bridge is collapsing, is collapsing, is collapsing
London Bridge is collapsing
Then is going to collapse some more

Hear The Song

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London Bridge in Mandarin Chinese

Notes

tie qiáo is literally "iron bridge".

kua xialai - kua means "collapse" and xia lai is a verb suffix which indicates continuation.

jiù yào kua xia lai - can be translated as "then is going to collapse some more" or "then will keep on collapsing".