White girl speaking fluent Shanghainese (上海話)

[kkagsh1]

WOW I remember I watched this program years ago when I was still a child

[rubberdiver13]

watch?v=-c9-IJ-CQ9M

[RandomUserX99]

I'm Chinese and I can't understand damn Shanghainese. Kudos to her learning that whacked dialect.

[lsynder]

This young foreign lady speaks shanghainese decently well, not perfectly but better than most chinese who are not native shanghainese. Shanghai dialect is not easy to speak and understand well even for a chinese who is not grown up in Shanghai.

[kennypeebles]

Where's the white girl?

[Condom007of007Solace]

Omg... it does sound so much like Japanese =/.

[lemonkissu]

Hahaha I wish I knew Mandarin... I'm half white half chinese and my mom spoke Shanghainese to me as a child so it's the only chinese dialect I know! People make fun of me for not knowing Mandarin, however I do understand parts....Trying to learn mandarin though :P

[NGxREALITYxFANTASY]

@lemonkissu

I know Mandarin and Shanghainese and everyone makes fun of me for not knowing Cantonese lol.

[VansFaith]

林栋甫，长远末看到了。Thanks for uploading

[TheDarkestCode]

@Sassymui8 umm no. Mandarin, Chinese is the most spoken language in the world.

[chinesespeakwelsh]

OMG...His Shanghainese is much better than my English...

[luf4rall]

o wow. This and the beijing accent. So strange.

[vwazp]

it seems some of her syllables are jumbled together too fast like japanese or something, but i guess it's understandable.

[MFLOVEify]

holy crap........im a chinese canadian from shanghai and i dont think i can speak the dialect better than her.......o.O

[helloyuhaosun]

@MFLOVEify shame on forgetting it!! xD

[vaneztax]

I don't see the point here. She could have been raised there. Asian descents born and raised in the West, and so they speak the local native language. What so strange about it? It is not a novelty. Soon everyone gonna speak Chinese anyway. They are everywhere even in war torn Afghanistan, Iraq, Africa.. operate take out Chinese foods (Time Magazine 2011). I would not be surprise if you soon find a Dim Sum in the moon.

[Asiats1]

@vaneztax And those Chinese are speaking English with the Arabs lol. Won't happen unless Chinese could get Russia, Middle East, India, South America Korea and Japan to learn Chinese, and that won't happen because they already know English. Unfortunately Chinese language is character based *sighs* maybe we should change it to alphabetical to gain acceptance.

[Sassymui8]

Chiense should learn Arabic. It's the language of the future with 2 billion speakers.

[yulaw31]

@Sassymui8 arabic has 2 billion speakers?what a pile of shit.mandarin is the most spoken.

[matelotgeek]

wow !

[helliax]

Is the exaggerated body language really necessary? 

[Thomas1967]

@2241ist

I read somewhere Shanghainese is a "dying" language because the people were pressured to learn (Beijing) Mandarin, which is the official language of China, and the younger generation isn't bothering to learn it. What is worse, some Shanghainese words/phrases have been replaced with "equivalent" Mandarin words. People that speak "pure/true" Shanghainese as a first language are elderly, and when they die, so will a lot of the language.

[helloyuhaosun]

@Thomas1967 thats so true.... i am glad i grew up with my grandparents learning shanghainesee as a kid :) honestly i like speaking it alot more than english and mandarin lol, i talk to kids these days from shanghai... none of them speak shanghainese, and ahve no regard for it as well =/ sad... dying language >< i doubt i would teach it to my kids

[sisizhe2011]

伊是陸馬尼亞來額，伐是啥美國混血。 只好港，提玆聰明，好像4尼宋光就會的港了

[rongjingji]

@sisizhe2011

来我色系的伐晓得

[aucifiel]

big accent...fluent but sounds weird.

[doraworks]

she is a romanian, has a chinese name called 魏丽, married with a shanghai guy. she's very famous on TV around 2005.

[jaylias]

they went at it as soon as it was off air

[Frharlee]

Don't say her accent is strange. Shanghainese sounds strange when anyone speaks it. Besides 那个女人是个中美混血儿。她爸是上海人。

[Commente1]

It's far from perfect, but very good for a westerner...



[GanzuGinisu]

好

[dumbasian1]

wow wut a beast

she sounds better than my bro

[hyatt2005]

This is cool. Foreigners speaking Mandarin is like nothing new these days.  Even that elevator dude in the empire state building surprised me with a few phrases. However, Shanghainese! Are you kidding me? Now this shows dedication. It's like if I want to learn Spanish, the last thing I would think about is how to speak Catalan.

[fullmoon184]

@hyatt2005 u know, I kinda feel offended at u sayin that. Im shanghainese, so u saying how shanghainese is like the last thing youd like to learn, makes me feel like u think Shanghainese is the most unpopular language ever.

[hyatt2005]

@fullmoon184 I'm from Shanghai and in fact I feel offended that you automatically assumed that I don't know what I'm talking about. Nong la gao sa me ze.

[jorgeoto]

@hyatt2005 Catalan and Spanish are quite more diferent than shanghainese and chinese, Catalan is a whole otrher languague, i understando your idea, but your example is very wrong, and frankly is even offensive, grettings

[cccEngineer]

@hyatt2005 Very true. Shanghainese is a dialect, Beijing has another dialect, Guangdong has their own(Cantonese), Taiwanese, Mandarin, and more. So many Chinese dialects. Any foreigner learning any dialect is very dedicated...Doesn't matter what dialect it is.

[zangounette]

nice for a white girl but accent isn't perfect

[Raymasaki]

@zangounette you mean her speaking isn't perfect & has an Accent.

thats a GOOD thing! hao de!

i speak Mandarin & want to sound funny & cute.

i like when foreigners speak with an Accent.

speaking "fluent English" isn't fun to hear when they say they are from over seas.

Believe MANY Americans like to hear Accents.

[yangyunjin]

机器鸟~~~是老油条~~~~

[KoolJayJ]

.... she can speak the dialect decently, but it sounds fucking strange. 

[wesscoast]

@KoolJayJ Well, yea, that's Shanghainese for ya... very weird... Curious why a girl would learn a very tough (and painful to the ears) language that only about 12-15 million people in the world can speak, when she could have learned Mandarin and spoken to like 2 billion. Oh well, I'm sure she's very taken care of here in Shanghai.

[GaolisVideoLog]

@KoolJayJ Well, when speaking a foreign language most people have an accent. Researchers still don't know why or how to get rid of it.

[bliss38]

@KoolJayJ

Really? Her way of speaking is exactly like how my family speak. They both sound like they are speaking classical Shanghainese (old Shanghainese before the CCP).

[KoolJayJ]

@bliss38 no its strange, i can easily hear the hint of whitey in it even if i closed my eyes and only hear the audio the first time

[bluewker]

@KoolJayJ I would say that her expressions are weird... but her accent is not terrible at all. Am I right? I grew up listening to my parents speak shanghainese and I speak it at home...but having grown up in Europe and North America, my grasp of the language isn't great.

[soundofocean]

Pretty good Shanghainese, honestly. I am Shanghainese born in Shanghai.

[minimoot]

The white girl.. has a pretty severe accent.

[Xisme66]

If you want to hear accurate Shangainese dialet, listen to to the older generations in this video. The two young people in the interview, the first spoke with a slight accent, and the second was just speaking Mandarin.

[MingTheMerciful]

She is pretty attractive

[zhongguohua88]

Interesting! How did you find this?

[cantehk2]

@zhongguohua88 - can't remember - had it on my hdd for several years. Please put some more videos of you speaking shanghainese, mandarin and cantonese et français aussi. thanks.