So I don't know exactly how many other people are in my position. I can speak and understand Mandarin just fine, and I can understand Shanghainese, as my parents are from Shanghai and speak it quite a bit, as do all my other relatives.
However, when learning to speak, it was always in Mandarin, so now I can't speak Shanghainese as well. This is a pity, as I would like to be able to speak it, so I've been looking for online resources. I recently stumbled upon this series on Youtube, and thought I'd share it with anyone else in a similar position to mine.
In addition, anyone else who has good stuff for me to learn from, please post it. Also, anyone currently living in Shanghai, or wanting to go there, post a story. I've only ever gone back with parents, visiting relatives, but goddamnit, I'm 18 now, and I wanna go there and experience the nightlife. There seems to be so much fun stuff there to do that I'm missing out on because I only ever go back with parents.
谢谢
And some Shanghainese humor. It's really weird because I understand it all, but I can't repeat it??
Shanghainese is such an awesome dialect. I really enjoy listening to it. I can understand both mandarin and shanghainese pretty well, but my spoken mandarin is broken, and spoken shanghainese nearly nonexistent hahah. Thanks for that link, I'm watching it right now, it's awesome.
not exactly the same, but i speak mandarin and most of my family in taiwan likes to speak taiwanese which i can understand but can't speak. the disadvantages of living in america..
i love speaking shangy in hong kong, really pisses the locals off. lol
On April 28 2011 13:17 DTK-m2 wrote: and I wanna go there and experience the nightlife. There seems to be so much fun stuff there to do that I'm missing out on because I only ever go back with parents.
yah, you really have to go with friends to fully enjoy shanghai i go back every 2 years and will be there in december. karaoke, 羊肉串 and Yang's 生煎 YUMMMMMMMMM is what i love about shanghai
On April 28 2011 13:17 DTK-m2 wrote: So I don't know exactly how many other people are in my position. I can speak and understand Mandarin just fine, and I can understand Shanghainese, as my parents are from Shanghai and speak it quite a bit, as do all my other relatives.
Lol I'm exactly like that, although I basically can't speak Shanghainese at all, like I can speak a few sentences but it takes ages for me to translate from mandarin to Shanghainese in my head, and sometimes when a different word is conventionally used in shanghainese i get stuck on the translation.
Grew up with my parents speaking shanghainese, so I can understand it fairly well, but I can't speak a single word of it. Never learned it, and never attempted to converse back with my parents in it. I don't even know how to say "hello" in shanghainese, but I can understand both videos fairly well.
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