Self-study Shanghainese

Author: Ruan Henghui
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Publish Date: 2000-09-01
Features: This book consists of two parts: "How to Learn Shanghai Dialect" and "Shanghai Dialect Sentences," accompanied by Shanghai dialect vocabulary. It is compiled for people who come to Shanghai for work. Dialects can easily evoke regional sentiments, and shared regional cultural sentiments can easily foster a sense of identity and closeness among people. Therefore, people tend to value "local accents" and "hometown feelings." This book designs a set of phonetic symbols for the Shanghai dialect system, which is based on the Chinese Pinyin scheme. The entire book uses Mandarin Chinese character pronunciations as much as possible to annotate the pronunciation of Shanghai characters.