New Resource: Origin of Life Br. Pīnyīn Plus Web Material
[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 Origin of Life (lf) brochure continues to be useful for discussing how life came to exist. In fact, it, along with the Was Life Created? brochure, has been added to the Teaching Toolbox in the JW Library app. To help us Mandarin field language learners to be prepared language-wise to make good use of this brochure without being unnecessarily hindered by the Great Wall of Chinese characters that’s mandated by mere human tradition and cultural pride, the following unofficial Pīnyīn Plus web material resource is being made available:
- Origin of Life Br.
(Pīnyīn Plus, Web)
(rich information about Mandarin speech
for discussing the origin of life,
as represented by the text of the
Mandarin Origin of Life brochure,
2010 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 chapter, paragraph, etc.,
links for getting around,
picture thumbnails & links, audio links,
Night Theme that can be turned on or off
using the ☀️/🌙 button at the top right,
adjustable text size)
(Info re offline viewing and printing) - Short Links:
Links > Publications > Brochures >
Origin of Life Brochure Links (tiandi.info/lf)
In the above resource, material matching both the current 2010 Printing of the Mandarin Origin of Life brochure and the current 2023 Study Edition (nwtsty) of the Mandarin NWT Bible is now available that covers the following:
Fully Proofread Pīnyīn Plus Material:
- Front Cover to Question 1, Par. 2
Proofread Pīnyīn or Better:
- Question 1, Par. 3 to the End of Question 1
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.
An old Simplified Chinese-Pīnyīn-English 3-line PDF file is also available, which covers the entire brochure, but which is not fully proofread. The link for the download page for this old 3-line PDF file can be found at the Origin of Life Brochure Links (tiandi.info/lf) short link.
More Pīnyīn and Pīnyīn Plus web material based on the Mandarin Origin of Life brochure will be made available in the above resource as time allows.
(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.)
