A rare textbook on Shanghai dialect by Reverend F. L. H. Pott, an American missionary and educator who lived in China for more than 50 years. - Summary by Xiaoyan Arrowsmith
Chapters
1 PREFACE 10 min 2 DESCRIPTION OF THE SHANGHAI ROMANIZED SYSTEM 25 min 3 LESSON I The Classifier 7 min 4 LESSON II Demonstrative, and Personal Pronouns 10 min 5 LESSON III The Numerals up to one Hundred 10 min 6 LESSON IV Adjectives 12 min 7 LESSON V Interrogatives, and Negatives 21 min 8 LESSON VI Some Remarks on the Verb 20 min 9 LESSON VII Prepositions and Postpositions, and Common Connectives 17 min 10 LESSON VIII Potential and Subjunctive Moods, and some Interrogative Adverbs 18 min 11 LESSON IX The Use of Dzak, Reduplication of Verbs, Reflexive Pronouns 19 min 12 LESSON X Divisions of Time. More Adverbs 20 min 13 LESSON XI The Passive Voice, and Adverbs of Place and Time 18 min 14 LESSON XII Some Verbal Idioms 21 min 15 LESSON XIII Auxiliary Verbs 23 min 16 LESSON XIV Causality, and Necessity 18 min 17 LESSON XV Further Remarks on Numerals, the Relative Pronoun 18 min 18 LESSON XVI Verbal Idioms 22 min 19 LESSON XVII More Verbal Idioms 21 min 20 LESSON XVIII More Verbal Idioms 17 min 21 LESSON XIX Asking Questions, Expecting Negative and Affirmative Answers 19 min 22 LESSON XX More Verbal Idioms 25 min 23 LESSON XXI Verbal Idioms, Ordinals, and Remarks on the Expression of Time 17 min 24 LESSON XXII On Comparison 16 min 25 LESSON XXIII The Points of the Compass 21 min 26 LESSON XXIV Some Remarks on Gender 19 min 27 LESSON XXV Weights and Measures 20 min 28 LESSON XXVI Family Relations 26 min 29 LESSON XXVII Compound Verbs 27 min 30 LESSON XXVIII Abstract Nouns formed from two Adjectives of opposite meaning 21 min 31 LESSON XXIX Some Useful Phrases 18 min 32 LESSON XXX More Useful Words and Phrases 15 min 33 LESSON XXXI Polite Language 19 min 34 LESSON XXXII Proverbs 11 min 35 CHINESE-ENGLISH VOCABULARY A-D 19 min 36 CHINESE-ENGLISH VOCABULARY E-K 27 min 37 CHINESE-ENGLISH VOCABULARY L-N 22 min 38 CHINESE-ENGLISH VOCABULARY O-S 19 min 39 CHINESE-ENGLISH VOCABULARY T-Z 38 min 40 ENGLISH-CHINESE VOCABUARY A-D 47 min 41 ENGLISH-CHINESE VOCABULARY E-K 28 min 42 ENGLISH-CHINESE VOCABULARY L-N 16 min 43 ENGLISH-CHINESE VOCABULARY O-S 39 min 44 ENGLISH-CHINESE VOCABULARY T-Z 23 min
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