Learn Shanghainese: Continuous Tense

Practice sentences and dialogue here. Learn the vocabulary needed to express what you're doing at a particular time.

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Education

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• learn shanghainese
• shanghainese dialogues
• shanghaiese
• chinese dialects
• shanghainese tones
• shanghainese conversation

[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).

[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!

[wenqiweiabcd]

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

[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..

[selenadresing]

bang you, you rock!

[yqc56795439]

结棍饿~~~

[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.

[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.

[nneuhaus84]

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

[funkyYum]

@SanguineBullet667 its awesome!!! :)

[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.



[mllebright]

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