Lessons in the Shanghai Dialect


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A rare textbook on Shanghai dialect by Reverend F. L. H. Pott, an American missionary and educator who lived in China for more than 50 years. - Summary by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith (14 hr 59 min)

Chapters

PREFACE 10:23 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
DESCRIPTION OF THE SHANGHAI ROMANIZED SYSTEM 25:07 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON I The Classifier 7:11 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON II Demonstrative, and Personal Pronouns 9:56 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON III The Numerals up to one Hundred 9:49 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON IV Adjectives 12:05 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON V Interrogatives, and Negatives 21:21 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON VI Some Remarks on the Verb 19:38 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON VII Prepositions and Postpositions, and Common Connectives 16:42 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON VIII Potential and Subjunctive Moods, and some Interrogative Adverbs 18:25 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON IX The Use of Dzak, Reduplication of Verbs, Reflexive Pronouns 18:47 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON X Divisions of Time. More Adverbs 20:14 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XI The Passive Voice, and Adverbs of Place and Time 18:25 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XII Some Verbal Idioms 21:06 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XIII Auxiliary Verbs 22:32 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XIV Causality, and Necessity 18:07 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XV Further Remarks on Numerals, the Relative Pronoun 17:49 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XVI Verbal Idioms 22:09 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XVII More Verbal Idioms 21:00 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XVIII More Verbal Idioms 16:41 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XIX Asking Questions, Expecting Negative and Affirmative Answers 18:51 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XX More Verbal Idioms 25:11 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XXI Verbal Idioms, Ordinals, and Remarks on the Expression of Time 16:53 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XXII On Comparison 15:34 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XXIII The Points of the Compass 21:05 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XXIV Some Remarks on Gender 19:13 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XXV Weights and Measures 20:27 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XXVI Family Relations 26:17 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XXVII Compound Verbs 26:38 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XXVIII Abstract Nouns formed from two Adjectives of opposite meaning 21:06 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XXIX Some Useful Phrases 17:49 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XXX More Useful Words and Phrases 15:25 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XXXI Polite Language 19:17 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
LESSON XXXII Proverbs 10:58 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
CHINESE-ENGLISH VOCABULARY A-D 18:58 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
CHINESE-ENGLISH VOCABULARY E-K 26:41 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
CHINESE-ENGLISH VOCABULARY L-N 22:03 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
CHINESE-ENGLISH VOCABULARY O-S 18:47 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
CHINESE-ENGLISH VOCABULARY T-Z 38:05 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
ENGLISH-CHINESE VOCABUARY A-D 46:37 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
ENGLISH-CHINESE VOCABULARY E-K 28:15 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
ENGLISH-CHINESE VOCABULARY L-N 16:12 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
ENGLISH-CHINESE VOCABULARY O-S 39:04 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
ENGLISH-CHINESE VOCABULARY T-Z 23:03 Read by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith