Talk 104 Recordings

Audio and video recordings of Mandarin public talk 104 are now available from the Mandarin Public Talks Audio & Video page. The recordings are available in MP3, iPod video, CD, and DVD formats. Chairmen's information is also available in Simp+Pinyin+English 3-line PDF format.

For information on how to access this page, email me, providing information such as what group or congregation you're with, who referred you to this site, etc.

May 1, 2008 What We Learn... w Magazine Article Material Posted

3-line material for the May 1, 2008 What We Learn... w magazine article has been posted to the What We Learn... (Chinese + Pinyin + English) page. Evidently, these articles were designed to be studied with householders, and they will appear four times a year.

WM-Dict Version 1.2 Now Available

Sorry to be a couple of weeks late with this, but version 1.2 of WM-Dict is now available.

What’s new?

• Chinese Character lookup: The Chinese dictionaries now support lookup by Chinese character, in addition to the ability to search for Chinese definitions with Pinyin and English.


• Search the definitions: Some of the language dictionaries include sample sentences for various translated terms. WM-Dict now supports searching these definitions.


• Smart Scrolling: In the search box or in the list of available terms, if you press the left or right arrow key, the definition window will scroll the content window up and down. This makes it easier to read a definition that is longer than the available space of the window without having to use the mouse.


• Chinese/Serbian language dictionary: A new dictionary. The authors think it is the first of its kind.


• Definition window improved: The definition window (the window where translations are displayed) now allows you to copy definitions easily into the clipboard or to lookup new words in WM-Dict based on the definition.


• And about a dozen bug fixes and performance enhancements.

Note that the old Chinese/English dictionary files are not compatible with this new version, so the new Chinese/English dictionary files will have to be installed for it.

For more information on the new features, click here.

Reminder: Links Files No Longer Attached to Links Emails

For those who have not yet noted this: The Links files are not attached to the Links emails anymore. Instead, the Links file should now be used by downloading its zip file from the web page linked to in the Links email, extracting it with the supplied password, saving it to a drive, and opening it in a modern web browser like Internet Explorer 7, Firefox, Safari, or Opera.

Didn’t Receive the Recent Links Emails?

It seems that some of the ones that are on the mailing list for the Links update emails are not receiving them. (Recent Links update emails were sent out on 2008-02-18 and on 2008-03-16.) Perhaps their mail providers’ spam filters are a bit overzealous about filtering out emails with multiple recipients. If you believe you have been affected by this, please email me and I will send you the Links email separately. I will also put your email address on a separate mailing list for those in this situation.