Learning to speak like a Shanghai native

[Francis Hult]

China Daily

Learning to speak like a Shanghai native

An enterprising pair of Beijing video journalists is winning rave reviews for a new online video series designed to help World Expo-bound local residents and foreign visitors learn to pronounce simple phrases in Shanghainese. 

Wearing an oversized pair of glasses (without any lenses), Huang Lan, 24, plays the role of a teacher, but with an outsized sense of fun, standing in front of a blackboard and merrily waving a piece of chalk in front of her students as they stumble over the pronunciations. 

"You've made it really fun. If only all language teachers in China could be so funny," wrote one Beijing netizen on the comments section included on Say It in Shanghai, the new 25-part podcast series on China Daily's website at chinadaily.com.cn. 

Full story:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2010-05/03/content_9802991.htm

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