Thank you guys for this. My girlfriend's parents are also from Shanghai and speak Shanghainese but they of course also speak mandarin. I've studied Japanese for 4 years and only when beginning studying Mandarin do I realise just how different the two languages are.
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February 11, 2008 at 12:38 PMThank you guys for this. My girlfriend's parents are also from Shanghai and speak Shanghainese but they of course also speak mandarin. I've studied Japanese for 4 years and only when beginning studying Mandarin do I realise just how different the two languages are. Xiexie