Learn From the Bible Bk. Pīnyīn Plus Web Resource Updated to Match the 2025-03 Printing
[NOTE: For spiritual food (which is for you yourself to learn spiritual things from, and which ideally should be in your own mother tongue), please go to jw.org.
The supplementary language-learning material mentioned in this post is for helping you to learn about how the Mandarin language is used in an official publication, so that you will be better able to help others in the Mandarin language field.]
The following language-learning resource for the Learn From the Bible book (currently being studied at Congregation Bible Study meetings) now matches the 2025-03 Printing of that publication, and all the scriptures in it from the Mandarin New World Translation Bible now match the nwtsty 2024 version of that Bible:
- Learn From the Bible Bk.
(Pīnyīn Plus, Web)
(rich information about Mandarin speech
for discussing Bible lessons and accounts,
as represented by the text of the
Mandarin Learn From the Bible book,
2025-03 Printing, proofread, mobile-friendly,
can be used offline in supporting browsers,
icon can be added to the home screen
with supporting browsers,
“flashcards” integrated with the text,
(tap/click on a Pīnyīn expression
to reveal its “flashcard”,
tap/click on a “flashcard” or its Pīnyīn expression
to hide the “flashcard”),
Pīnyīn (Pinyin) used as the default writing system,
carefully done human-translated
context-appropriate English translations
with literal & effective meanings,
Simplified & Traditional characters,
📖 Reveal All, 📄 Reveal Advanced,
and 📘 Reveal None controls for
all the “flashcards” in a lesson, paragraph, etc.,
links for getting around,
picture thumbnails & links, audio links,
JW Library app scripture links,
Dark mode selectable with the
dropdown control at the top right,
adjustable text size)
(Info re offline viewing and printing) - Short Links:
Links > Publications > Books >
Learn From the Bible Book Links (tiandi.info/lfb)
In the above resource, the following web material is now available for the Mandarin Learn From the Bible book:
Proofread Pīnyīn Plus material:
- Beginning to Lesson 4
Partially proofread Pīnyīn and Pīnyīn Plus material:
- Lesson 5 to Lesson 75
- Material with a grey background has been partially proofread. Pīnyīn material with a golden-hued background has been proofread, but not all of its “flashcards” have been added and proofread.
Proofread Pīnyīn and partially proofread Pīnyīn Plus material:
- Lesson 60 to Lesson 62
- Pīnyīn material with a golden-hued background has been proofread, but not all of its “flashcards” have been added and proofread.
Lessons with Partial Coverage
- Lesson 76 to Lesson 86
- Material with a grey background has been partially proofread. Pīnyīn material with a golden-hued background has been proofread, but not all of its “flashcards” have been added and proofread.
Note that like other Pīnyīn Plus web material resources, the above resource can be used offline. Also, an icon can be added to the home screen with supporting browsers.
On the iPhone, the iPad, and in WebKit-based web browsers (e.g., Safari, Orion) on the Mac, scripture links labelled as “JW nwtsty” will go to the indicated scripture in the Mandarin New World Translation Study Bible in the JW Library app, if those are downloaded and installed. (I have not yet been able to test these links on Android or Windows. If you have been able to do so, email me to let me know the results!)
While incomplete, this material can help Mandarin field language learners—especially, but not only, those who can read English—to get past the Great Wall of characters and supercharge their efforts to prepare for and participate in Mandarin discussions using the Learn From the Bible book, such as those now scheduled for the Congregation Bible Study sections of our Life and Ministry meetings.
[NOTE: While the organization expresses valid general concerns here about posting copies of official publications to the Internet, there are good legal and spiritual reasons for concluding that those concerns do not apply to this particular material, since such material should NOT be considered to be infringing on copyright, and since such material is specifically designed to be, NOT SPIRITUAL FOOD, but rather, material FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING. See this disclaimer for more information.]
