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“Etiquette Terms” in Ningbo Dialect

2,396 views · Published 22 September 2016 · 4:05 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: the JaYoe Nation · 2016 · People & Blogs

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For this episode, my cohost Melody and I visited Qiantong Village for Lantern Festival.  We wanted to exercise some terms in Ningbo dialect that would help us be polite with the local shopkeepers.  As usual, a huge group of friendly villagers came out of the woodwork and we enjoyed a traditional meal together.

Chinese language is vast and varied.  Although you may have heard Chinese spoken in the two major dialects Cantonese or Mandarin, there are actually 100’s of dialects of Chinese spoken for specific areas.  Many of these are totally unintelligible if you are not from that specific area, and have little relationship to Mandarin or Cantonese.

This is a short series of clips I pulled from my 2013 Ningbo Focus Show episodes that taught Ningbo dialect of Chinese language.  In each of these short lessons I tried to teach some simple terms in the local language that could be used in a variety of circumstances and have fun doing it.  Although Ningbo dialect is used less and less, I think that keeping it alive even a little helps to retain Ningbo culture remember the Ningbo Heritage.

If you are interested in watching the original episode this clip was part of, you can find it here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N-k_B175d4

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