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magnus1977
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Joined: Oct 12, 2008
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Aug 26, 2009 - 10:16 PM |
 
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"Nong hao!" That's HELLO in Shanghainese!
Have you ever tried studying Shanghainese? It's hard. Harder than studying Mandarin. That's because Shanghainese is a spoken dialect mainly spoken in the bustling city of Shanghai which is home to almost 20 million. This is not a dialect you can open a book and study, this is a dialect that you MUST hear and learn. There are many sources on the web for those learning Shanghainese. Let's look at a few:
Sinosplice has a great couple posts about Shanghainese. The first one is a list of a bunch of books that teach the dialect but that was published back in 2005. But there is also a cool flash "click and hear" thing on his website. That's really fun and we totally recommend going there!
Danwei.org had an interesting post back in 2006 about learning Shanghainese but most of those links are not working anymore.
Language hat has an interesting post also from back in 2006 about learning Shanghainese and a few links and some quote about a dialect. Some of those links are also not working.
Shanghaining.com is a Chinese website that features music and rap from Shanghai. Go there if you can read Chinese. We downloaded a really cool 10 minute Shanghainese rap!
PrChinese.com is called Practice Chinese and they have a good description about what Shanghainese is.
California State University at Long Beach has an interesting page of links for Shanghainese. The site was last updated........
There's more. Click below to read more.
M and MX.com
Shanghainese at M and MX.com |
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jasonnoguchi
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Aug 26, 2009 - 10:55 PM |
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cosunnybay
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Joined: July 23, 2009
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Sep 08, 2009 - 05:03 PM |
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thanks magnus1977.
shanghai dialect is hard even for Chinese people. many of my friends can't understand it when they talk to the seller in wet market |
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SnappySammy
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Oct 12, 2009 - 07:26 AM |
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I know twice as much Shanghainese than Mandarin.. |
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Shady_Slim
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Joined: Dec 08, 2008
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Location: Out by the next hutong...
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Oct 12, 2009 - 08:23 AM |
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Might be 20 million people in shanghai, but not all can speak shanghainese? lots of migrant workers in that 20 million, want to really impress? learn how to speak Cantonese, been told thats the new in-language down south now.. |
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