Learn Shanghainese with me

Author: Qian Naiying
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: This book organizes colloquial dialogues based on various typical scenes in Shanghai life, offering both (fun and engaging) and (practical and reference-friendly). It allows users to easily find relevant sentences by category. The content and oral scenarios selected in this book reflect the new life and new expressions of Shanghai in the early 21st century. The writing method of this book facilitates self-learning of Shanghai dialect. The text and vocabulary use symbols that closely resemble the Pinyin letters of Mandarin Chinese to annotate Shanghai dialect pronunciation. Anyone who understands basic Mandarin Pinyin and English letter pronunciation can easily grasp the sounds of Shanghai dialect. To make it easier for people from Taiwan to learn Shanghai dialect, this book specially designed a Pinyin-like annotation system for Shanghai dialect. This book is the first Shanghai dialect textbook to use word segmentation and authentic spoken tones. The teaching method of this book is progressive, emphasizing the understanding of common sentence patterns in Shanghai dialect and comprehensively introducing the basic characteristics of Shanghai dialect grammar.