Learn Shanghainese: Continuous Tense

[selenadresing]

bang you, you rock!

[yqc56795439]

结棍饿~~~

[GaolisVideoLog]

I have a question. My friend is trying to teach me Shanghainese. She is from there and speaks it natively. However, they never learned how to write it at school. She told me that 早上好 would be pronounced as "tsǎu áng xìang háu". I would also like to learn how to write a bit 上海话. I know that "tsǎu" is 早 and "háu" is 好. Could you please help me with the other characters in between? Thank you.

[xxxxSOSEXYxxxx]

Nobody teaches Shanghainese. It's so frustrating!  Everyone says it's a dying language but if you want to live in Shanghai all the people may know mandarin but when they are walking down the street a lot of the people are choosing to speak Shanghainese. How does that help me to understand them if I only learn mandarin??? My ex was Shanghainese and when we visited his family in Shanghai they all spoke Shanghainese around the table. Learning Mandarin didn't help me. lol

[thatsawrap00]

focus more on your mandarin first you jerk before teaching another dialect..... hahaha 开玩笑。。。。greetings from the state of confusion

[liyanruru]

Wa....amazing vedio. Even, you have a bit accent in shanghainese. But its good to explain shanghainese here.

[jackjlutub]

Dude you are a (language) freak of nature!

[jyangster]

loool i speak shanghainese and this guy tries to hard on pronouncing the dialects! but regardless of his ascent good job:]

[salaph]

U r amazing!!!

[DaReliableYGOTrada]

his zan he e wu (shanghainese) sounds like he has something up his nose

[smaginn]

omg i find it amazing that you speak so many different languages. it is true that your shanghainese pronunciation isnt perfect, but your mandarin seems to be excellent to me!

[wenqiweiabcd]

Bleeding hell this 鬼佬 knows more about the Chinese language than I do....

[TheMichael309]

Did you learn all this in the US? LOL

[planetshakerxx]

dude your manderin is sooooo good o___o

your shang has an accent but that's a given cos people whu never originalli speak shang have accents. you should accent your words more cos shang is realli strong compared to manderin which is softer.

but seriousli your mando is amazingggg!! :OO

i was sooo surprised..

[lzhang1991]

@planetshakerxx i disagree. i speak both languages natively and shanghainese is definitely softer and less accented. shanghainese is very mumbly language. if anything he should accent his words less.

[soundofocean]

Hey, very good Shanghainese! Is it harder than other Chinese languages to you? I am Shanghainese, miss吴侬软语。How long have you been learning Shanghainese for? :))

[vwazp]

your pronounciation is off for "american", but very impressive, i don't even understand the rules, i guess it's better to grow up in shanghai, you just learn naturally.

[SanguineBullet667]

why did you choose to learn Shanghainese over Mandarin?

[Glossika]

@SanguineBullet667 Does "over Mandarin" mean "instead of Mandarin"? I've spoken Mandarin for over a decade along with other Chinese languages. What exactly are you asking?

[SanguineBullet667]

@Glossika I didn't know you already knew Mandarin. I thought along some line there was a decision to choose one or the other based off of a potential job or something along the lines of such.

[Glossika]

@SanguineBullet667 Along with some 30-40 other languages, please check my profile page, Mandarin training series, Russian training series, Taiwanese training series, Hakka training series, videos on Uyghur, Manchurian, Mongolian, Korean, Japanese, Cantonese, Tibetan, Cambodian, Georgian, Arabic, Farsi, Taiwan's aboriginal languages, and almost every language of Europe. I'm a main polyglot in the polyglot community here, please read "Polyglot Project" just published in the US (Amazon books).

[nneuhaus84]

@Glossika wow, ego much lol you are a major polyglot in the area huh? Wow.

[ahqhue]

@SanguineBullet667 Learning a language solely because of better job opportunities is a horrible reason to learn a language and will result in one not really understanding a language. Learning a language without learning the culture is pointless. French (which I took in high school rather than Mandarin) is nothing without the knowledge of the intricate culture behind it, same goes for others. One needs passion in order to be successful at learning a language.

[ahqhue]

You're seriously one of the few materials that focus on Shanghainese. (Wu Chinese Shanghai?)

My grandparents and parents spoke Wu Chinese Ningbo to me, but I lost it all (along with Mando) around the age of five.

Recently someone (obnoxious and ignorant) said "You're Chinese, you should already know Chinese". She was right, so I decided I wanted to learn the good ol' tongue of my parents' Yangtze River Delta.

Djya ya nyogn.

[mllebright]

@SanguineBullet667 dude...he speaks Mandarin at the beginning of the vid. lol. 

[funkyYum]

@SanguineBullet667 its awesome!!! :)

[darkangelcloud7]

Haha woww I'm impressed. But personally I think the minority of people speaks Shanghainese. 

[SwonzX]

@darkangelcloud7 Yes, then in Canada, soo many Cantonese.

[Mikenopolis]

@Glossika wait! lai lai is "spicy" isn't it? I'm an ABC and speak Cantonese fluently. My father is Shanghainese and watched this to learn what his language is. weird that you are White....my highschool Mandarin teacher was White too. Very surprised how well you speak

[pandabear153]

Its great that you are keeping the various Chinese dialects alive. I am ABC and can barely speak the dialect of my parents. Thank you!

[hanyilv]

very good pronounciation! keep working!!!加油！

[wht1t3cr4y0n]

Your mandarin has very good pronunciation but your shanghainese pronunciation is kinda bad.. I can't understand oh and by the way the continuous tense should be ye ze or something like that, not le le or whatever

[wht1t3cr4y0n]

Your mandarin has very good pronunciation but your shanghainese pronunciation is kinda bad.. I can't understand

[swzish]

he's pretty good, all you natives hating need to realize this is a white dude learning shanghainese. i can't imagine learning shanghainese as a foreigner it seems reall difficult, i bet mandarin/canto people would have a hard time learning it too

[omarshanghai]

个宁就是上海宁伐。买帐了

[GunnChaiyapatranun]

isnt it "dang di no" as in "dang di wu" (to make a phone call...)?

[bookwormgirl000]

@GunnChaiyapatranun I think it's supposed to be 'dang di no'.

[longcatplz]

@GunnChaiyapatranun

doesn't "dang di no" mean use the computer?

and "dang di wu" to make a phone call? :)

[GunnChaiyapatranun]

@longcatplz yea... I was saying the "dang di" should be the same for both...

[tlcm628]

thank you for teaching Shanghainese. I am a mother tougue. I will later do the same thing like you.

[chenfang148]

I speak Ningbo, it's pretty similar to Shanghainese. But this is really interesting. :D thanks.

[huayifeng]

That's awesome, it's damn difficult to pick it up, even for non shanghainese chinese. How long have you been in shanghai?

--Comment from a native shanghainese here.

[zenbinrox]

native wu speaker here. excellent job for a native American!

Keep up the good job

[arthur576576]

Its more of a mix of le le

[silmerusse]

This video is amazing. His teaching is very professional. And apparently he has studied ancient Chinese phonology system.

[adrianehm]

Wow your tones are perfect! It is so rare to hear a non-Chinese get it right. Also very informative lesson. I'm pretty interested in Shanghainese myself. Thanks

[mcgainey]

mandarin is hard enough, shanghainese is fucking impossible!

[bnjifar92]

@mcgainey learn mandrin and come by this video again you'll get your words back

i said the same thing but unless you don't live in shanghai this talk is useless

[21shanghai]

His chinese and shanghainese is amazing,but the first sentense the to two words should be pernounce differently.They should be le lei

[laohy]

@21shanghai i don't think so, i think 'le le' is correct , 'le lei' is only because ppl say 'le le hai' fast n make it sounds like 'le lei' ..

[GilDSun]

I can tell your Mandarin is much more fluent than Shanghainese. But fairly accurate pronunciatiion of the dialect. Great effort, considering your background. Admirable!!

[gan0nsl4y3r]

my grandpa was wu, i wish he would have taught me :(

[truekailun]

This is interesting. I'm a native speaker in North America who learned from her parents, and apparently some of my wording and pronunciation have been off my entire life. xD I suspect that I may be speaking with slang or 20 year old pronunciation. Or perhaps I confuse grammar between English and Shanghainese sometimes.

Anyway, good vid! I can see it as being a very useful resource to learners.

[Glossika]

Well keep in mind some visitors are saying my pronunciation is off. But thank you for the encouragement!

[SekyinB]

The consonants of 打 and 電 are actually different. (/t/ vs /d/)

[michigofang]

great stuff!

[dragonemperor4eva]

i am learning mandarin and it sounds much easier than shanghainese

[studntsoundz]

Yes !!! I've been wanting to learn the language....

[aacv]

You know what, I believe most people who are watching this are the people who actually know shanghaiese, the reason why are still watching this is they want to learn or improve their English listening. Yes, they are not learning the shanghai dialect, but English.

[Glossika]

I will improve my pronunciation in these Shanghai videos the next time I record. I'm speaking slowly and clearly compared to how people are used to hearing it, so there are still a lot of negative responses from native speakers.

[Bommer129]

Nice video, Your Shanghainese is very good, I have never heard a non-Shanghainese person ever speak Shanghainese before lol

[minus273cn]

When I was in Shanghai, they seem to say

ŋu tã diɦu ləhe

[givingaway]

Good presentation, Mike. I'm trying to learn Shanghai Wu. I can see that you've put great afford in your presentation. I will follow your YouTube see how my progress goes. Thank you.

[stinky70]

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