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Lessons in the Shanghai Dialect

Francis Lister Hawks Pott (1864 - 1947)

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

Genre(s): Language learning

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	PREFACE	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:10:23
Play 01	DESCRIPTION OF THE SHANGHAI ROMANIZED SYSTEM	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:25:07
Play 02	LESSON I The Classifier	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:07:11
Play 03	LESSON II Demonstrative, and Personal Pronouns	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:09:56
Play 04	LESSON III The Numerals up to one Hundred	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:09:49
Play 05	LESSON IV Adjectives	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:12:05
Play 06	LESSON V Interrogatives, and Negatives	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:21:21
Play 07	LESSON VI Some Remarks on the Verb	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:19:38
Play 08	LESSON VII Prepositions and Postpositions, and Common Connectives	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:16:42
Play 09	LESSON VIII Potential and Subjunctive Moods, and some Interrogative Adverbs	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:18:25
Play 10	LESSON IX The Use of Dzak, Reduplication of Verbs, Reflexive Pronouns	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:18:47
Play 11	LESSON X Divisions of Time. More Adverbs	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:20:14
Play 12	LESSON XI The Passive Voice, and Adverbs of Place and Time	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:18:25
Play 13	LESSON XII Some Verbal Idioms	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:21:06
Play 14	LESSON XIII Auxiliary Verbs	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:22:32
Play 15	LESSON XIV Causality, and Necessity	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:18:07
Play 16	LESSON XV Further Remarks on Numerals, the Relative Pronoun	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:17:49
Play 17	LESSON XVI Verbal Idioms	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:22:09
Play 18	LESSON XVII More Verbal Idioms	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:21:00
Play 19	LESSON XVIII More Verbal Idioms	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:16:41
Play 20	LESSON XIX Asking Questions, Expecting Negative and Affirmative Answers	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:18:51
Play 21	LESSON XX More Verbal Idioms	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:25:11
Play 22	LESSON XXI Verbal Idioms, Ordinals, and Remarks on the Expression of Time	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:16:53
Play 23	LESSON XXII On Comparison	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:15:34
Play 24	LESSON XXIII The Points of the Compass	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:21:05
Play 25	LESSON XXIV Some Remarks on Gender	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:19:13
Play 26	LESSON XXV Weights and Measures	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:20:27
Play 27	LESSON XXVI Family Relations	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:26:17
Play 28	LESSON XXVII Compound Verbs	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:26:38
Play 29	LESSON XXVIII Abstract Nouns formed from two Adjectives of opposite meaning	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:21:06
Play 30	LESSON XXIX Some Useful Phrases	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:17:49
Play 31	LESSON XXX More Useful Words and Phrases	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:15:25
Play 32	LESSON XXXI Polite Language	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:19:17
Play 33	LESSON XXXII Proverbs	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:10:58
Play 34	CHINESE-ENGLISH VOCABULARY A-D	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:18:58
Play 35	CHINESE-ENGLISH VOCABULARY E-K	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:26:41
Play 36	CHINESE-ENGLISH VOCABULARY L-N	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:22:03
Play 37	CHINESE-ENGLISH VOCABULARY O-S	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:18:47
Play 38	CHINESE-ENGLISH VOCABULARY T-Z	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:38:05
Play 39	ENGLISH-CHINESE VOCABUARY A-D	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:46:37
Play 40	ENGLISH-CHINESE VOCABULARY E-K	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:28:15
Play 41	ENGLISH-CHINESE VOCABULARY L-N	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:16:12
Play 42	ENGLISH-CHINESE VOCABULARY O-S	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:39:04
Play 43	ENGLISH-CHINESE VOCABULARY T-Z	Xiaoyan Arrowsmith	00:23:03

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