Lessons in the Shanghai Dialect

About this eBook

Author

Pott, F. L. Hawks (Francis Lister Hawks), 1864-1947

Credits

Produced by Ronald Grenier (This file was produced from images generously made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library)

Language

English

LoC Class

PL: Language and Literatures: Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania

Subject

Chinese language -- Dialects -- China -- Shanghai

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 62130

Release Date

May 14, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.LESSONS IN THE SHANGHAI DIALECT
2. 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.THE REVISED EDITION
5. 5.NEW EDITION
6. 6.DESCRIPTION OF THE SHANGHAI ROMANIZED SYSTEM — INITIALS — FINALS — TONES — TONE SIGNS — SOUNDS OF THE TONES
7. 7.LESSON I The Classifier — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
8. 8.LESSON II Demonstrative, and Personal Pronouns. — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
9. 9.LESSON III The Numerals up to one Hundred — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
10. 10.LESSON IV Adjectives — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
11. 11.LESSON V Interrogatives, and Negatives — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
12. 12.LESSON VI Some Remarks on the Verb — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
13. 13.LESSON VII Prepositions and Postpositions, and Common Connectives — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
14. 14.LESSON VIII Potential and Subjunctive Moods, and some Interrogative Adverbs — VOCABULARY. — EXERCISES
15. 15.LESSON IX The Use of Dzak, Reduplication of Verbs, Reflexive Pronouns — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
16. 16.LESSON X Divisions of Time. More Adverbs — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
17. 17.LESSON XI The Passive Voice, and Adverbs of Place and Time — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
18. 18.LESSON XII Some Verbal Idioms — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
19. 19.LESSON XIII Auxiliary Verbs — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
20. 20.LESSON XIV Causality, and Necessity — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
21. 21.LESSON XV Further Remarks on Numerals, the Relative Pronoun — VOCABULARY. — EXERCISES
22. 22.LESSON XVI Verbal Idioms — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
23. 23.LESSON XVII More Verbal Idioms — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
24. 24.LESSON XVIII More Verbal Idioms — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
25. 25.LESSON XIX Asking Questions, Expecting Negative and Affirmative Answers — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
26. 26.LESSON XX More Verbal Idioms — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
27. 27.LESSON XXI Verbal Idioms, Ordinals, and Remarks on the Expression of Time — REMARKS ON TIME — EXERCISES
28. 28.LESSON XXII On Comparison — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
29. 29.LESSON XXIII The Points of the Compass — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
30. 30.LESSON XXIV Some Remarks on Gender — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
31. 31.LESSON XXV Weights and Measures — MEASURE OF WEIGHT — MEASURE OF DISTANCE — MEASURE OF AREA — CURRENCY — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
32. 32.LESSON XXVI Family Relations — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
33. 33.LESSON XXVII Compound Verbs — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
34. 34.LESSON XXVIII Abstract Nouns formed from two Adjectives of opposite meaning — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
35. 35.LESSON XXIX Some Useful Phrases — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
36. 36.LESSON XXX More Useful Words and Phrases — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
37. 37.LESSON XXXI Polite Language — VOCABULARY — EXERCISES
38. 38.LESSON XXXII Proverbs
39. 39.CHINESE-ENGLISH VOCABULARY
40. 40.ENGLISH-CHINESE VOCABUARY
41. 41.Transcriber's Notes
42. 42.Transcriber’s Notes: Unknown Characters

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