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Monday, October 27, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
上海話 － Shanghainese
I bought Dunwoody Press's Shanghai Dialect: An Introduction to Speaking the Contemporary Language ($59 + $12 audio) last week and it arrived in the mail today with the one cassette tape. Going to need to transfer it to the computer so I can listen to it on my iPod as I walk around. I think the university language center will be able to do that for me.
I briefly looked through the book and it's got 4 columns across two pages:
Authors transcription system - English - Shanghainese characters (Simplified) - IPA
The following page has a gloss for the meanings of words and few grammatical notes and supplementary vocabulary.
The units are made up of 2 dialogs and the topics of the units are listed below (with supplementary vocab topic in parenthesis):
Unit 01: Greetings (personal pronouns)
Unit 02: Asking someone's name (common surnames)
Unit 03: Talking about Language (countries and continents)
Unit 04: Talking about home (family)
Unit 05: Asking an address (in the house)
Unit 06: Asking about objects (weather)
Unit 07: Asking the date and the time (time)
Unit 08: Making a phone call (education)
Unit 09: In the shop 1 (fruits and vegetables)
Unit 10: In the shop 2 (clothes)
Unit 11: In the restaurant (eating)
Unit 12: Asking the way (the city)
Unit 13: On the bus (vehicles)
Unit 14: Having a haircut (shops)
Unit 15: Seeing a doctor (health)
Unit 16: At the laundry (colours)
Unit 17: At the foreign language bookshop (publishing)
Unit 18: In the post office (writing)
Unit 19: At the library (measure words)
Unit 20: At the photographer's (photography)
Unit 21: Touring (animals)
Unit 22: Watching television (Radio)
Unit 23: Seeing a Beijing Opera (sport)
Unit 24: Seeing a movie (Film)
Unit 25: Going away on a trip (more chinese provinces and cities)
Unit 26: Buying a train ticket (place words)
Unit 27: Talking about study (more adjectives)
Unit 28: Packing (society)
Unit 29: Seeing someone off at the airport (directional complements)
Word Index (in phonetic order 上海話 -> English
I will make more comments on the audio once I have a chance to listen to it.
I briefly looked through the book and it's got 4 columns across two pages:
Authors transcription system - English - Shanghainese characters (Simplified) - IPA
The following page has a gloss for the meanings of words and few grammatical notes and supplementary vocabulary.
The units are made up of 2 dialogs and the topics of the units are listed below (with supplementary vocab topic in parenthesis):
Unit 01: Greetings (personal pronouns)
Unit 02: Asking someone's name (common surnames)
Unit 03: Talking about Language (countries and continents)
Unit 04: Talking about home (family)
Unit 05: Asking an address (in the house)
Unit 06: Asking about objects (weather)
Unit 07: Asking the date and the time (time)
Unit 08: Making a phone call (education)
Unit 09: In the shop 1 (fruits and vegetables)
Unit 10: In the shop 2 (clothes)
Unit 11: In the restaurant (eating)
Unit 12: Asking the way (the city)
Unit 13: On the bus (vehicles)
Unit 14: Having a haircut (shops)
Unit 15: Seeing a doctor (health)
Unit 16: At the laundry (colours)
Unit 17: At the foreign language bookshop (publishing)
Unit 18: In the post office (writing)
Unit 19: At the library (measure words)
Unit 20: At the photographer's (photography)
Unit 21: Touring (animals)
Unit 22: Watching television (Radio)
Unit 23: Seeing a Beijing Opera (sport)
Unit 24: Seeing a movie (Film)
Unit 25: Going away on a trip (more chinese provinces and cities)
Unit 26: Buying a train ticket (place words)
Unit 27: Talking about study (more adjectives)
Unit 28: Packing (society)
Unit 29: Seeing someone off at the airport (directional complements)
Word Index (in phonetic order 上海話 -> English
I will make more comments on the audio once I have a chance to listen to it.
Taiwan releases an online Taiwanese dictionary
As taken from Pinyin News:
The dictionary can be accessed Here
enjoy!
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education has put online its new Taiwanese (Hoklo) dictionary, the Táiwān Mǐnnányǔ chángyòngcí cídiǎn (giving the Mandarin name) (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典). The preliminary version, which is to be amended in six months, contains 16,000 entries.
The dictionary can be accessed Here
enjoy!
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Bloggerooni
I've really fallen out of the blogging spirit lately. I finally switched over my domain to this blog, so it's accessible by kealist.com . I will try to write some interesting things from time to time, and be more active overall
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