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
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Episodes
PREFACE
Episode 0 · 10:23
DESCRIPTION OF THE SHANGHAI ROMANIZED SYSTEM
Episode 1 · 25:07
LESSON I The Classifier
Episode 2 · 7:11
LESSON II Demonstrative, and Personal Pronouns
Episode 3 · 9:56
LESSON III The Numerals up to one Hundred
Episode 4 · 9:49
LESSON IV Adjectives
Episode 5 · 12:05
LESSON V Interrogatives, and Negatives
Episode 6 · 21:21
LESSON VI Some Remarks on the Verb
Episode 7 · 19:38
LESSON VII Prepositions and Postpositions, and Common Connectives
Episode 8 · 16:42
LESSON VIII Potential and Subjunctive Moods, and some Interrogative Adverbs
Episode 9 · 18:25
LESSON IX The Use of Dzak, Reduplication of Verbs, Reflexive Pronouns
Episode 10 · 18:47
LESSON X Divisions of Time. More Adverbs
Episode 11 · 20:14
LESSON XI The Passive Voice, and Adverbs of Place and Time
Episode 12 · 18:25
LESSON XII Some Verbal Idioms
Episode 13 · 21:06
LESSON XIII Auxiliary Verbs
Episode 14 · 22:32
LESSON XIV Causality, and Necessity
Episode 15 · 18:07
LESSON XV Further Remarks on Numerals, the Relative Pronoun
Episode 16 · 17:49
LESSON XVI Verbal Idioms
Episode 17 · 22:09
LESSON XVII More Verbal Idioms
Episode 18 · 21:00
LESSON XVIII More Verbal Idioms
Episode 19 · 16:41
LESSON XIX Asking Questions, Expecting Negative and Affirmative Answers
Episode 20 · 18:51
LESSON XX More Verbal Idioms
Episode 21 · 25:11
LESSON XXI Verbal Idioms, Ordinals, and Remarks on the Expression of Time
Episode 22 · 16:53
LESSON XXII On Comparison
Episode 23 · 15:34
LESSON XXIII The Points of the Compass
Episode 24 · 21:05
LESSON XXIV Some Remarks on Gender
Episode 25 · 19:13
LESSON XXV Weights and Measures
Episode 26 · 20:27
LESSON XXVI Family Relations
Episode 27 · 26:17
LESSON XXVII Compound Verbs
Episode 28 · 26:38
LESSON XXVIII Abstract Nouns formed from two Adjectives of opposite meaning