Learn Shanghainese: Are you freakin' deaf?

Yeah, I'll tell you how to say it.

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Education

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• learn
• shanghainese

[equn]

making phone calls is not da diwo but dang(v) diwo. :-)

[Glossika]

@equn Good point.

[hdkaj]

How do you say "long time no see" in Shanghainese???

[Glossika]

@hdkaj Long time no see in Shanghai is: zzã yü vak ji (長遠勿見) Tones: LO-HI-MID-LO

[Abrilpara2]

How do you say "snake" (蛇) in Shanghainese?

[Glossika]

@Abrilpara2 蛇 is zzo13 (low rising tone) in Shanghai. It's the same word as "tea" 茶.

[numba1g23]

@warwheelz: As a native speaker of 上海话, I agree that his accent is way off.

That being said, I'm certainly not OFFENDED by this video. I understand Glossika's effort. English education in China faces these problems: focusing on wrong aspects of the language, lack of non-native speakers, etc. In countries like the US, I have never heard of a single university offering our language...

YET: If you are seriously interested in 上海话: yes. find a NATIVE speaker to teach you.

[NorseRonin]

@warwheelz you're out of control man, all that you've said could have just been one paragraph. no need to say someone sounds gay man, maybe that's just revealing your own insecurities.

[Liuhuayue]

I feel like you made this 10x more complicated then it actually needs to be.

Also, your accent is a little harsh... :/

Good try, though. Very few Americans even know that Shanghainese exists...

[63110236]

As a Shanghainese it was pretty funny for me to watch this but I really like it! Viva la Shanghainese

[mllebright]

I like your explanation of 呆。

[beterhans]

I laughed when you talking about past tense.... Why people make language so complex for the leaner?

[leelee71]

So glad i never had to learn my shanghainese from this guy (I learned from my mother and relatives).......his style of teaching is just blah blah blaaaaaaah....on and on and ooooooooooon......and his shanghainese is not good. And why is he saying the beginning in Mandarin? Though that is quite good.....

[alleywatson]

you're a pro man, great work even my wife who is from 上海 thinks you're very good

[alleywatson]

you're a pro man, great work

[whitedogsrule]

Interesting that you wrote your own pinyin! I sort of did the same for Putonghua myself. For words like 是 I write shi with appropriate diacritic marks. For 一, for example I write yи, because that tells me it's the same sound as 'eee' because I R/W/S Pусский. It's a big help to me, as pinyin, with my modifications is faster to write then Palladius, and other students in my classes can understand it, after some minor explanation. It works for me; your mileage may vary, LOL!

[alanxdma]

BTW, Shanghai dialect shall sound "Zzang(3rd pitch) - hé - é (3rd pitch)- ¸ôu

You noticed I used French plus Chinese pitch for the pronounciation, because I find it has some similarity to French on the phonetics. Shanghainese needs a lot of movement of the front part of the oral cavity more like when you speak French. While the northern dialects which mostly are spoken using the back part , especially a lot of throat . (maybe that`s one of the causes of excessive phlegm :) ).