Wu dialect and Mandarin in a nutshell

"What you are speaking so loudly I cannot hear what you say." Ralph Waldo Emerson said long time ago. My comment with "huixie": If Emerson were alive today,he would learn the tone difference between the Shanghai dialect and Mandarin in the light vein. Xie Shihao has discovered such in a Wu class at Dictyon.net July 6, 2007.