The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
Are Chinese characters the ultimate clarifiers of meaning in Mandarin?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How is the Mandarin word for “resurrection” constructed?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How can we say in Mandarin that Jesus will end war?
Yes, war will be over, although perhaps not exactly in the way they had imagined. [source]
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
Are Chinese characters worthy and good just because they’re hard?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How can we be shrewd with regard to evolution and creation, and with regard to learning Mandarin?
Music is the sounds we hear, not the musical notation that we see 🎼.
— Troubadour WW (@troubadourww) March 3, 2024
Mandarin is the SPEECH we hear, not the Chinese characters that we see. pic.twitter.com/c6WacUQ3nD
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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 Enjoy Life Forever! (lff) book is now officially recommended for use on Bible studies, and it is now part of 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 new book 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, which matches the 2024-01 Printing now on the Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY:
can be used offline in supporting browsers, icon can be added to the home screenVideos are used extensively in the Enjoy Life Forever! book, and a noteworthy feature of the above resource is Pīnyīn Plus video transcripts. These should help us Mandarin field language learners to analyze and understand the Mandarin speech used in the many videos referenced in the Mandarin Enjoy Life Forever! book. This in turn should help us make more effective use of these videos while participating in Mandarin Bible discussions using this book.
Also, using the Pīnyīn Plus video transcripts while watching and listening to the corresponding Mandarin videos gives us good practice at listening to Mandarin speech, with help when needed so that we can actually follow along and understand it, and learn to use it ourselves in the future.
(Tapping/clicking on the above image will take you to the web page represented.)
In the above resource, material matching both the current 2024-01 Printing of the Mandarin Enjoy Life Forever! book and the current 2023 Study Edition (nwtsty) of the Mandarin NWT Bible is now available that covers the following:
(Even in the latter category above, headings and relatively short paragraphs are typically rendered with fully proofread Pīnyīn Plus material.)
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.
More Pīnyīn and Pīnyīn Plus web material based on the Mandarin Enjoy Life Forever! book 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.)
