Thought I'll leave this link here.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/qinghuiji/i-am-hungry-a-bilingual-childrens-board-book

Someone has created a board book for kids to learn Shanghainese.

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Hello everyone. I am working on a project right now where I am trying to collaborate with native speakers to create free online lessons and textbooks that are modernized, informative, and easy to follow. I am especially interested in regional dialects/languages and would love to work with anyone interested. If you are interested and can help me, please let me know. Thank you

Most Shanghainese would generally point to the decline of Shanghainese language in the city to the government’s language policies, but don’t you think there is more to play here? As a substantial cultural group that still makes up half of the city’s population, why are they complicit with giving up their own identity?

Thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4syFP0TV-1I

At the second verse - 儂在吾身旁, I think that she didn't use 在, if it's true, what is the actual Chinese character for that sound?

it would be best if it would be for free

大噶好！记得小什光看地市高头Tom and Jerry上海闲话配音版本，煨灶猫😆寻不着Youtube阿么。啥您晓得哈里苦以寻着？Xia 夏大噶！

I am the creator of a fictional worldbuilding project in which Wu is featured. Figuring that Shanghainese would be the most easy to access Wu language/dialect on Reddit/, I'm asking if anyone here would be able to help me translate this phrase, "We come in peace" for a poster graphic that I'm trying to make.

Is it just 阿拉為和平而來 ?

Version 1.4https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d-Qi-FZWEXLpNhrMRvPnVe7sfsAdEP8g/view?usp=sharing

Changelog:- Definitions increased 470 to 494 pages. Expanded several thousand slang definitions for entries that previously existed in addition to a bit over a thousand new entries.

eg.

1.3

ts’z yáng p’au p’au  吹洋泡泡 1 To blow up balloon 2 To blow a soap bubble

1.4

ts’z yáng p’au p’au  吹洋泡泡 1 To blow up balloon 2 To blow a soap bubble 3 Exaggeration, to exaggerate 4 Pregnancy

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Aspirations for 1.5 in the future:

- Expand samples (still collecting works)

- Maintain terms

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In 繁花，almost all casts speak in shanghainese. Have you watched it? Whether it will attract people (especially those were born in Shanghai but have forgot their mother language ) to learn Shanghainese or the culture of Shanghai ?

https://voca.ro/12765oc4s9Cw
Found this in my wife's wardrobe. I don't understand Shanghainese.

上了年歲个上海人多數只有飯盒子个讀法，後頭一眼眼年紀輕个人裡頭飯匣子个讀法就相當平常了。
是當中个原因講弗太清爽，一種可能性係，上海言話盒子跟格子發音接近，跟普通言話个發音錯班忒多。反過來，匣子發音更加接近一眼，逐漸就畀普通言話帶跑掉哉。
合算、盒子、鴿子、癩蛤蟆在了上海言話裡頭，儕係同音字，要麽文讀Kap，要麼白讀Hop。其他讀音弗一樣个場合應該寫个係其他字。

上海人上海言話講弗好，一個根本个原因係無辦法用上海言話來思考。
因為在了書面高頭个缺失，造成哉上海言話个文法跟語法，儕無辦法傳承下去。
現代上海人在腦子裡頭想一樁事體个辰光，多多少少總歸會得拿普通話个文法來組織思路。
是樣就造成了想个講个弗同調，要麼講不利契，要麼一點也講弗出來哉。
為之講，先文法語法學習好係學習上海言話个重點。
做到想法，寫法，講法一式一樣再能夠融會貫通，再好覺著講上海言話交關著勁。

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Going here to check my understanding of practical usage of tones, so please bear with me if I make any mistakes, and possibly correct them. I also don't know the Chinese terms for Chinese tones.

So, what I know is that there're 5 tones numbered 1 and then 5-8; 1 and 5 are for voiceless consonants, 6's for voiced consonants, and 7 for syllables ending in -q (IPA [ʔ]) with a voiced consonant, and the final 8 being voiceless consonant and -q. Characters have one of 5 tones, but in practical usage of chains of characters, multi-character terms have a more "Japanese" like pitch due to sandhi, resulting in what sounds like 2 phonemic tones: high and low. What dictates what character is high or low in sandhi is based on whether the prominence lies in the left-most or right-most character.

The way tones are described in text (not their classifying tone number) is through 1-5, with 1 being the lowest pitch in voice, and 5 being the highest. When dividing these pitches into low and high, this "seems" (based on sources) to be how pitch is divided.

Low: 1, 2, 3

High: 4, 5

Therefore, for left-prominent word chains, there are generally 3 patterns for words H-L*, L-H-L*, L-H*-H↗ (asterisks indicate that if a word has more syllables than described here, that tone is reproduced for all other characters in the chain until the last one). Due to the nature of what initial consonants can have, H-L* is for initial tone 1 words, and L-H*-H↗ is for voiced with [ʔ], but are also describing to taking a L-H-L* pattern for 4+ syllables (optional for 4 syllables). Additionally, all patterns excluding tone 8 words longer than 3 syllables have the final syllable falling (which means if tone 5-8 words have 3 syllables, the reproducing tone doesn't exist).

This is a more detailed analysis of tone patterns for multisyllabic word:

1 (53): 55 - 33* - 21 -> 心 (H) 理 (L) 學 (L)

5 (334): 33 - 44 / 33 - 55 - 33* - 21 -> 澳 (L) 大 (H) 利 (L) 亞 (L)

6: (113): 22 - 44 / 22 - 55 - 33* - 21 -> 上 (L) 海 (H) 閒 (L) 話 (L)

7 (55ʔ) = 5 -> 法 (L) 國 (H) 砂 (L) 鍋 (L)

8 (12ʔ) = 6 OR 11 - 23 / 11 - 22* - 23 -> 日 (L) 本 (H) 銀 (H) 行 (H) OR 日 (L) 本 (H) 銀 (L) 行 (L)

So, this is an example sentence from Wikipedia, and this is my attempt to dissect what tone sandhi happens.

我紅顏色個電話尋勿到了

我 = ngu 6

紅顏色個 = ghon 6*L - nge H - seq L - gheg L

電話 = di 6*L-gho H

尋勿到 = zhin 6*L - veq H - tau L

了 = leq 0

Personal questions:

• What happened to numbering the tones 1-5 and why is it 1, 5-8?
• So, I described left prominent tone sandhi, but there's also right prominent tone sandhi where all tones of chain undergo sandhi, and I have no understand of how that works. How does it work? It apparently can make lexical difference.
• When left-prominent and right-prominent chains appear? Like, what dictates if a chain if left or right-prominent?

I am shanghainese, can answer domestic questions, no matter what you want to know

Hi redditors,

I’m travelling to SH soon.. in a weeks time. Just wanted to see if anyone has any recommendation for a few good places for lunch / dinners in SH? We’d like to try the local cuisine and are open to any recommendations that you might have. Budget wise; mid range and don’t mind paying a little more if the place is worth trying.

Thanks in advance !

I haven't been able to find any info about this but apparently many words in Shanghainese come from English (like the word 'cement).

Is there any place where I can learn about the influence of the English language (and others) on Shanghainese?

Hello all.

I finally finished my latest suite of short stories in Shanghainese. I thought I would include English, Chinese characters and Kaudip'e for a change and also write about a topic that is sparse. I deliberately didn't include any names of people but if you recognise who you are, then I thank you (or apologise for writing about your family). But these are stories we just talk about too often now and I just want them recorded somewhere. Just like the last work I will be reading this on chat and maybe a few of you can read it this time.

file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12A7UxLbLI08dJbKk_XBzncXlncnXy5_z/view?usp=sharing

invite: https://discord.gg/tSwCJDha?event=1138056212236222485

(Just a heads up, Ill be pretty busy after this for awhile. But for those not on discord with me, I plan to update the dictionary one more time after I come back from America. Probably start of next year. And I am still collecting 本幫 and 海派 recipes. So I will be grateful if any of you can supply. Thanks.)

Does anyone know of any Shanghainese YouTube channels, podcasts, or any other content? I am trying to learn Shanghainese but I need some material to practice on.

侬好！

What could the following phrase mean? It sounds like:

"Ala go-zz go-zz va yo xiu"

I think Ala is a pronoun, and the "va yo xiu" means "is not small". The "go-tsu go-tsu"/"go-zz go-zz" is what I'm not sure about.

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For context, this is from a recording where an older women is commenting on a baby. Could it be 个子？ If so, what does the reduplication of the word connote? Thanks so much!

I am writing a story about a Chinese American that tutors for kids. He is from Suzhou district area. I would like some rundown advice on dialect, culture, and language that is unique to the area.

Hello everyone.

I am sharing my translation of Animal Farm into Shanghainese. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OV_c3kZ0dMcx_zXlnUgn1DdTS8S-Agu-/view?usp=sharing. To celebrate, I will be hosting a first reading of Chapter 1 on this reddit's discord server. Feel free to come. Invitation details: https://discord.gg/cMA57VvY?event=1105800899978342540