When professor Qian Nairong (錢乃榮) published his dictionary of the Shanghai dialect in 2007, he was in some ways documenting a dying language. The number of people speaking the rapid-fire language — a ...

China may soon witness the fading of the Shanghai dialect, unless they work hard to promote this language. The number of people speaking the rapid-fire language -- a badge of identity for residents of ...

Poor translation in public is not quite rare in China.[Photo from Internet] Shanghai’s government stepped forward in the battle against signs with poor translations. After enacting the first ...

Three Shanghai residents relax on a street in Shanghai. The number of people speaking the rapid-fire Shanghai dialect is shrinking as the government maintains a decades-old drive to promote Mandarin ...

A strategy for learning a language: 1. Start with small, daily actions — 25 characters, 10 new words, 15 minutes of speaking.

I forget that I know three languages. Partly because who’s to say what constitutes “knowing,” given the way that language skills degrade without practice? Another reason I forget is because the ...

An introductory course in modern spoken and written Chinese, stressing oral-aural facility and the integration of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Five hours of ...

China's musical stage-play market, especially in Shanghai, saw a growth of 166 percent in box-office receipts compared with 2017, according to a press release by SAIC·Shanghai Culture Square. The ...