Lessons in the Shanghai Dialect

A practical, classroom-style primer on the regional Shanghai speech that presents pronunciation, tones, grammar points, and vocabulary through graded lessons. It opens with a preface arguing for the dialect’s persistence and usefulness for missionaries and residents, then offers systematic coverage of pronouns, numerals, classifiers, adjectives, verbs including auxiliaries and compound forms, particles, interrogatives, negatives, moods, and tone notation. Each lesson includes vocabulary lists, grammatical notes, exercises, and useful phrases, and the book concludes with bilingual vocabularies, proverbs, and measures. Emphasis is on idiomatic formation, classifier usage, sentence patterns, and everyday conversational items for learners in the area.