Mandarin Course

Phonology of Shanghai Dialect of Wu Language using IPA

This video goes into detail using the IPA symbols to learn how to pronounce the sounds of the Shanghai dialect of the Wu language, spoken in the eastern seaboard provinces of Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangsu and Shanghai, China. I also do some practice with some words from a Shanghai dictionary and finally show you how to write those words using Campbell Universal Pinyin, a universal pinyin I developed to represent the sounds of all Chinese dialects. For more information about the individual pronunciation of the IPA characters, please refer to my IPA pronunciation videos.