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“New Student Terms” in Ningbo Dialect

1,231 views · Published 26 September 2016 · 2:13 · Indexed 26 October 2026

Channel: the JaYoe Nation · 2016 · People & Blogs

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This was my last episode of the Ningbo Focus Show under contract with Ningbo Television.  We chose to go to local Nottingham University to film it.  For the Ningbo dialect segment, the school set me up with a classroom full of students to teach some important terms to tell people when you first get to Ningbo and communicate with locals for the first time in a school setting.

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=jiRUVKbecc4

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