Nong who? Learning Shanghainese in a city dominated by Mandarin

China is huge. This country of 1.4 billion covers an area of nearly 10 million square kilometers — the third largest in the world based on land area. People are still shocked, though, to learn that China has dozens and dozens of languages and dialects, many mutually unintelligible, and that Mandarin — China’s official language — is not the mother tongue for many Chinese.

In Shanghai, a city of 24 million, it’s also quite complicated.

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