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Mr Zhou Sheng, a dialect enthusiast, teaching the Changsha dialect to students at the Affiliated Primary School of Hunan Normal University.
PHOTO: ZHOU SHENG/WEIXIN
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BEIJING – For the past year, Mr Zhou Sheng, 46, has been teaching the local Changsha dialect to primary school pupils in the capital of central China’s Hunan province.
He is passionate about preserving the language of his hometown, which “children no longer speak” and whose once-familiar strains are fading from the streets of Changsha, he says.
