In preparing the new edition, the author has received most valuable
help from his colleague, Prof. F. C. Cooper. The two new lessons were
suggested by him, and the one containing more useful words and phrases
is the result of his experience, gained through teaching the book to
a class of beginners.
My thanks are also due to him for the time and care he has spent in
correcting the proofs, and seeing the book through the press.
The author hopes the book will continue to be a useful stepping-stone
in the acquisition of a knowledge of the Shanghai Dialect.
Inasmuch as Davis’s Shanghai Dialect Exercises may be used as a
second book after the completion of this, it has not been deemed
necessary to add many new lessons.