"You Can Speak Chinese!" genre: Humor
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	Encouragement for students of Chinese! You can do it! Hang in there! Ni hau!
	CD: unreleased demo   Label: unreleased Credits: written, arranged, recorded and performed by Paul Meredith. Thanks for voice over from Christy, my Chinese teacher in HK!
	Story Behind the Song Really this song is self therapy, I'm the one that needs the encouragement! The head of the Chinese school I was attending liked another song I did (Hap m Happy), so offered to reduce tuition if I wrote another one using Mandarin Chinese. Heck yeah, I said. Nothing very deep here, but it was fun to write and perform. It probably took away from my valuable study time doing the song, but it's always like that for me! Hope you like it. Lyrics YOU CAN SPEAK CHINESE 1. You can say hello in Guangzhou, goodbye in Shanghai Thank you please, in Chinese -- if you can find the will to try All it takes is your desire to make a dream come true Well who would not admire what you're tryin' so hard to do 2. Qing zuo, he cha, sit down and drink some tea with your friend in Beijing You can talk about the weather with your peng you -- you can talk about anything And if you say those words in Mandarin, if they're not perfect she won't care She knows the more you say the more you learn And the more you learn the more you can share Human communication, that's what it's all about If we understand each other, brother we never gonna have to shout Everybody's a foreigner sometime in their life, that's true But if you show that you really want to talk to people, People really gonna wanna talk to you 3. If I could just shuo yi dianr de Putonghua, expounding on a theme I walk a little further down a Chinese road -- I dream a Chinese dream Well you can say ni hau in Qingdao -- zai jian in Xian Qing jin, please come in, speaking Mandarin Yes I believe you can I believe you can Qing zai shuo yi bian (say it again!) I believe you can c) Paul Meredith, 1999

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