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RTHK has some good beginner Shanghainese lessons although the flash design doesn’t work quite well.

The lessons are taught in Cantonese and you need to know Chinese to read it.

The audio format is in Microsoft Windows Media

Lesson One http://www.rthk.org.hk/elearning/gogoshanghai/media/lesson1.asx
Lesson Two: http://www.rthk.org.hk/elearning/gogoshanghai/media/lesson2.asx
Lesson Three: http://www.rthk.org.hk/elearning/gogoshanghai/media/lesson3.asx
Lesson Four: http://www.rthk.org.hk/elearning/gogoshanghai/media/lesson4.asx
Lesson Five: http://www.rthk.org.hk/elearning/gogoshanghai/media/lesson5.asx
Lesson Six: http://www.rthk.org.hk/elearning/gogoshanghai/media/lesson6.asx
Lesson Seven: http://www.rthk.org.hk/elearning/gogoshanghai/media/lesson7.asx
Lesson Eight: http://www.rthk.org.hk/elearning/gogoshanghai/media/lesson8.asx
Lesson Nine: http://www.rthk.org.hk/elearning/gogoshanghai/media/lesson9.asx
Lesson Ten: http://www.rthk.org.hk/elearning/gogoshanghai/media/lesson10.asx

For the text of the these lessons, please go to http://www.rthk.org.hk/elearning/gogoshanghai/

One of the most useful resources to learn Shanghainese is Wikipedia.

Here’s what we can find in it in case you cannot access it at this moment:

Shanghainese (上海閒話 [zɑ̃̀héɦɛ̀ɦʊ̀] in Shanghainese), sometimes referred to as the Shanghai dialect, is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in the city of Shanghai, and the surrounding region. It is classified as a Sino-Tibetan language. Shanghainese, like other Wu dialects, is largely not mutually intelligible with other Chinese dialects such as Standard Mandarin (see Mutually intelligible languages), or even other subbranches of the Wu language group.

Shanghainese is the representative dialect of Northern Wu; it contains vocabulary and expressions from the entire Northern Wu area (southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang). With nearly 14 million speakers, Shanghainese is also the largest single coherent form of Wu Chinese. In Western sources, the term “Shanghainese” often refers to all Wu dialects and not specifically the particular Wu dialect spoken in Shanghai. The total number of Wu speakers is over 80 million, the second most widely spoken Chinese language after Mandarin.