A few things. First, as has been requested, you can now subscribe to this site by email. This is through Google’s Feedburner and will send you posts via email as they’re published here.

Second, you may have noticed 星期沪 has taken a nose dive. I’ve become much busier with my grad classes and in addition to that have picked up some part-time work in order to keep my electricity on. Something had to give and weekly Shanghainese tweets seemed an obvious choice. I’ll probably pick it up again in the future, but likely not until the semester ends.

Lastly, despite the busier schedule I’m putting some more time into other Wu dialects. I’m planning a couple trips into Jiangsu for the dual purposes of collecting books and collecting more audio recordings. More exciting (for me anyway) is December’s minor topolect post, which is the most complete yet, including about 5 minutes of audio. That will be posted after I find some time to transcribe the last few pieces. And while it’s not Shanghainese, it may still be of some value to those of you living in the city. More on that later.

Keep your eyes open for that in a week or so.