I keep meaning to get to Wuxi (and Gaochun and Danyang among others) to get some recordings and search the local libraries. Next week is Shanghai but maybe the week after that I’ll finally get there.

In the meantime, @wuxiandis has filmed four brief lessons available on YouTube that cover some of the basics. It includes some pronouns, basic counting and a few useful phrases. They are spoken by a handful of different people so you can get a better idea of what’s really there. Anyway you can see all the clips at this blog which has them all in one place.

In mostly unrelated news regarding my own documentation, I’ll be heading overseas in about a month and while there will retrieve my tiny digital dictaphone. At present it’s hard to get good snippets of conversations while carrying around my 15″ MacBook Pro opened up to Audacity. That doesn’t mean I’m not trying, because I am, but expect to hear many more samples coming in the beginning of April when I return to my ^*cough* beloved Jiangnan.