2010 | Mar 17
ChinesePod & Shanghai hua
“I had heard rumours…
Finally, we recognize that in many places in China Mandarin is not ...”
16
In search of Mnemonics
“From the Wikipedia article on Cantonese phonology:
The numbers "394052786" when pronounced in Cantonese, will give ...”
15
Genesis in Wu
“If you head over to the Wikipedia page for Ningbo dialect, you'll notice the image ...”
13
Search box added. Finally.
“Though more than just a little overwhelmed with things that absolutely positively need to get ...”
11
Comparative Topolects circa 1903
“The following is a page from "A Syllabic DIctionary of the Chinese Language; Arranged According ...”
08
Subway Shanghainese
“A quick shot from the subway this past fall. The red bag says "上海人" and ...”
| Feb 25
Growing Up With Shanghai
“Check out the soundwalks project, "Growing up with Shanghai".
From the About page:
“Growing Up With Shanghai” ...”
24
Phonetics of Ancient Chinese
“I've been reading through Bernhard Karlgren's "The Reconstruction of Ancient Chinese". I'm operating entirely ...”
18
Happy New Year from Shanghai
“Perhaps a little late but still useful for a few more days,
新年好
xin nyi hau
or
Whichever ...”
16
Never your First: More on Dialect vs. Language
“The anecdote in this post can be considered to be an extension of a previous ...”
15
Sinoglot: a group blog on language in China
“Not sure how I missed this announcement, but here it is:
I'm happy to announce the ...”
14
Fei Si Le: Languages, not Dialects
“note: It was originally my intent to post this over at Sinoglot. However seeing as ...”
10
Wu on CouchSurfing
“Well that was easier than I thought. I was poking around my long-dormant CouchSurfing ...”
08
Books: 自学上海话
“Published by 上海大学出版社, written by Yuàn Hénghuī 院恒辉 and coming with yet another diminutive audio ...”
07
the Web in Wu
“A lifestyle site for Shanghai, ShanghaiNing.com offers a good sampling of written Shanghainese. It's ...”
06
Clips: Supermarket
“Super busy these days, but here's a clip to let you know I'm still alive.
”
| Jan 23
One year down
“Today marks one year since the official launch of Annals of Wu. The site was ...”
13
Saying no in Wu
“It's come up a few times in the last couple months so it seemed as ...”
12
the Sound of Shanghai
“A few summers ago when I was new to Shanghai, friends and I joked that ...”
05
English for Cabbies
“I've not been in a taxi for a long while. Today that ended with one ...”
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2009 | Dec 21
Sinosplice: Zhou Libo's Hui Cidian
“John at Sinosplice has posted once more on Shanghainese. Be sure to head over and ...”
12
Haimen Rap
“Personally I'd much prefer to post on cool indie kids in Haimen who wear converse ...”
07
Minor Topolect – Qǐdōng / Hǎimén & Tōngdōng
“Introduction
This month's minor topolect post is the heartiest of such posts to date. Haimen (locally ...”
05
Housekeeping
“A few things. First, as has been requested, you can now subscribe to this site ...”
02
Guerilla Recording #62
“I can't tell you much about this clip except that the conversation took place behind ...”
| Nov 30
Minor Topolect - Shàoxīng
“This month for the Monthly Minor Topolect we're looking at Shaoxing dialect from Northern Zhenjiang. ...”
23
More on Transcription
“The following is from the YR Chao 赵元任 interview I mentioned a while back.
At that ...”
19
A Comparison of Transcriptions
“We've been talking about transcription a few posts back and the rather unorthodox method used ...”
16
It's the little things
“Obama may be the first U.S. president to publicly speak Wu. Alright fine, it was ...”
14
Why Tones Might Not Matter in Wu
“Or at least why they may be much less important than in Mandarin.
I've argued that ...”
13
星期沪 - Outsiders
“Face it. If you're from another country (外国人) and you move from almost anywhere ...”
09
Shanghainese Profanity
“What better topic to follow Disney movies with than profanity? Don't read further if ...”
08 “To answer the people who think the topics here get too technical/academic/stuffy:
Aww yeah. The ...”
07
Nonstandard Pronunciation
“Someone on Youku has uploaded a series of videos on how to speak Shanghaihua. They ...”
06
星期沪 - Colours
“This week's topic is colour, for which I direct you to the previous post.
红 ɦoŋ - ...”
05
Red Cards and Yellow Cards
“…and not a footballer in sight.
This is one of three recordings I got in the ...”
04
Minhang Obscenities
“I found myself in a cab in Minhang this evening. As we pulled out ...”
01
Updates to the Site
“I'm in the process of cleaning up some of the images and CSS. Expect ...”
The Importance of Directions
“I still think of Chinese cities as being like Nanjing, in which it seems no ...”
| Oct 30
星期沪 - Some basics
“The following are three phrases that you'll hear on a regular basis. They go right ...”
28
Conversations in Shanghainese
“A while back I mentioned the 上海话大词典 published by 上海辞书出版社, Shanghai Dictionary Publishing. What I ...”
23
星期沪 - the Weather
“This week we're covering some phrases and vocabulary for discussing the weather. It's useful ...”
19
Interview with YR Chao
“There's a great interview with YR Chao up on the USC library site. It's ...”
the Moka Mission Revisited
“I couldn't resist going back to the Moka Garden Embroidery Mission documents. There's just ...”
17
Minor Topolect - Húzhōu
“Inspired by the recent conversations regarding Qián Xuántóng 钱玄同, this month the minor topolect is ...”
16
星期沪 - More Idioms
“Shanghainese Saturday is now Shanghai Friday. It was something I'd thought about before and has ...”
15
The Northern Frontier
“As time goes on I find myself less and less interested in places like Nántōng ...”
13
Suzhou dialect in 1920
“Forgive my indulgences. The following is from the preface to Inductive Lessons in Suzhou ...”
12
Soochow Zhuyin Fuhao
“Hat-tip to @kmlawson who inadvertently directed me to the National Library of Australia's digital collections. ...”
Books:《标准苏州音手册》
“Or "Handbook of Standard Suzhou Pronunciation" written by Wàng Píng 汪平. I found this ...”
11
Tones & Colour
“I've been suffering insomnia for the last three days, a combination of mosquitoes having acquired ...”
10
星期沪 - Idioms
“The following are phrases/idioms you'll find in both Mandarin and Wu. The superscript numbers indicate ...”
09
Qián Xuántóng and ràng (让)
“First, if you haven't already, read "The origins of ràng’s svelte simplification" over at John ...”
07
Wu IPA Keyboard Layout
“I've been messing around with the built-in OS X character palette whenever I've needed IPA ...”
04
星期沪 - Small Talk
“The internet is down at my apartment again and so Shanghainese Saturday is late once ...”
| Sep 29
Mélange Revisited
“I spent the better part of my day in Shanghai's book district, also known as ...”
27
Dead Horses: the Mélange
“Slightly different from previous ideas on the origin of Wu, the following comes from Simon ...”
23
Dead horses: Language v. Dialect
“The following is from page 144 of 中国的语言1. It's one of the few sections written ...”
22
星期沪 - Communication
“This week's Shanghainese Saturday Sunday Monday… day covers a few tools of communication. Speaking ...”
16
On ɿ vs. ẓ and other transcription thoughts
“As I said in a recent post,
he system being used is not standard IPA ...”
15
Like Wu but not Wu
“This is probably the first and last time I throw a full out Mandarin recording ...”
13
Minor Topolect - Pínghú
“Nerdy pseudoacademic time, emphasis on pseudo. A friend of mine had to go to ...”
12
星期沪－Teas
“Well, It's Saturday. And this week's theme is tea.
绿茶 - loʔ11 zo23, green ...”
11
Suzhou Intonation
“This morning while in Suzhou I managed to get a recording of some non-standard but ...”
10
Zhongshan Park
“My typical day has recently involved a lot of time between busses and subways, with ...”
09
An I.M.E. made for Jiangnan
“John over at Sinosplice recently published a screenshot of the Google Pinyin IME showing the ...”
08
The Return of Shanghainese Saturday
“Well I'm once again settled in, having just returned to Shanghai after a two year ...”
03
Books: Shànghǎihuà Dà Cídiǎn
“As mentioned in the last post, I bought a Shanghainese dictionary. It's pretty much awesome.
The ...”
Dictionaries, Taxis & Black People
“It's been a long long day. I have precious little time to get everything ...”
| Aug 14
Interview with MandMX.com
“The following is the first in what I hope to be multiple interviews with those ...”
05
a Reclamation of Books
“One of the things to which I've looked forward most in going back to North ...”
04
Maths and Leaving Changzhou
“It's been a long July. In addition to getting ready for a much needed ...”
| Jul 09
on Mandarin/Wu intelligability
“The following was previously posted on my personal blog on the 13th of January, 10 ...”
01
a Survey of Numbers in Wu
“There are a few things I find myself asking when I meet people from previously ...”
| Jun 24
Writing & Tones, revisited
“A while back I wrote about a book I had recently purchased that relied solely ...”
20
Links: Suzhou dialect
“While looking for something almost unrelated I came across a few pages relating to the ...”
17
Call for Submissions
“Insights welcome
As mentioned earlier, Annals of Wu is now looking for people to share their ...”
13
Words you must know in Changzhou elevators.
“Small, 小, is still xiao.
Dog, 狗 gǒu, becomes géi in Changzhou hua.
Then small again.
Then 便 ...”
Shanghainese Saturday on Twitter
“It's Saturday. A month ago it was recommended, probably without even the slightest hint of ...”
12
the New Japanese Myth
“Lately I've found myself in a number of conversations about being able to speak different ...”
11
Some Changes
“As you may or may not have noticed I'm in the middle of making some ...”
09
Learning Dialects through Inaction‡
“When I first came to China and learned of Shanghainese and just how different from ...”
04
Taxicab Breakfast Inquiries
“With my apologies to Beijing Sounds for posting on the same setting only shortly after ...”
| May 24
Ordering at Huihui
“The following is a recording I made this evening while waiting for my dinner at ...”
20
Examples of Wu Transcription - 《咏鹅》
“In a comment on the previously mentioned LanguageLog post, commenter Li Yu drops a link ...”
16
Saturday Shanghainese Spectacular
“Today seems to be Shanghainese Saturday, at least from my end of things.
At LanguageLog, ...”
06
McDonald's Requires Dialect Proficiency
“I heard about an interesting hiring practice today. Apparently it's somewhat well known by ...”
01
Language as Novelty Act
“Maybe it's just my own proximity to the subject, and maybe I just never paid ...”
| Apr 19
The Right to Speak Shanghainese
“Once again an interesting post over at LanguageLog relating to Wu. A poster is ...”
10
Wuxi Hosts Wu Culture Festival
“Hat tip to @soakland who tipped me off to the Wu Culture Festival that begins ...”
| Mar 29
Writing & Tones
“Well I never made it to America. My dog got sick and so I've ...”
14
Characters & Shanghai Dialect
“I spent my Friday in Shanghai, something I'd like to do more often. Despite the ...”
07
Victor Mair on Mutual Intelligibility
“As you've probably guessed, there's a post up on LanguageLog by Victor Mair about the ...”
02
the Annals 2009 Jiangnan tour
“
Last time I went to the States I had promised myself that upon my return ...”
| Feb 28
Wuxi Dialect Lessons
“I keep meaning to get to Wuxi (and Gaochun and Danyang among others) to get ...”
22
Writing with Characters
“So far all of the books I've been able to find specifically covering 常州方言 have ...”
14
On the Future of Wu
“A student at the University of Victoria Dylan, who is currently studying at 华东师范大学, ...”
13
I only fear Gaochun
“Last year I was teaching English (like many foreigners wishing to live here) at a ...”
Books: Chángzhōu Fāngyán
“Just got back from the local Xinhua and picked up a copy of Chángzhōu Fāngyán ...”
09
Wuxi Hip-Hop Karaoke
“The second post in what appears to be a series on people rapping in Wu, ...”
08
Hip-Hop from Changzhou
“I sat down to write something about a play that was done in the Changzhou ...”
06
On Accents
“Last night I hung out with a few friends to see one off who will ...”
03
The Problem with Transcription
“I had an epiphany. I've been using /ʒ/ for a sound in 常州话 that i'm ...”
01
常州话 on the TV
“While flipping channels tonight I came across a show on Changzhou TV called "生活369". ...”
| Jan 30
Greetings in Wu
“As I start up a new project I try to keep in mind my reasons ...”
23
Pinyin, IPA or Characters?
“Why not pīnyīn?
It's been asked how one would go about writing something that isn't really ...”
ɲʒɛə tɕɛ vɛi vʌn?
“I've recently realised that the vast majority of recent posts at my blog were about ...”
22
About the Blog
“Purpose
I've set up this blog to catalog the various encounters I have with Wu dialects ...”
21
About the Wu Dialects
“Wu is a language† spoken in East China, most popularly as Shanghainese. It is ...”
19
the Links
“
链接
︻中文之網址︼
吳語協會
首页
电子公告栏
江南雅音话吴语
吳語論壇︵电子公告栏︶
吳語聯盟
苏州闲话︵苏州话︶
Sites written in Mandarin or Wu are listed to the right.
【Wu】
Discurs.us
great resource on Southern ...”
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