The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
In the Mandarin field, how can a Mandarin word about crystals help us talk about the Creator?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
Is it bad to become experts at Mandarin, like some around us may imply?
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What can we say to Mandarin-speaking people about why the earth is unique?
Earthrise
This iconic picture shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon.
Pale Blue Dot
This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, taken from a distance of more than 4 billion miles (6.4 billion km) from Earth, is a part of the first ever “portrait” of the solar system taken by the Voyager 1 space probe. (Earth is the blueish-white speck almost halfway up the rightmost band of light.)
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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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In the Mandarin field, how can we talk about Jehovah being our intelligent Creator, and why should we do so?
Sure, work hard and learn all the Chinese characters you can. (It’s not humanly possible to learn and remember all of them.)
— Troubadour WW (@troubadourww) December 24, 2024
Work SMART too, though—use _Pīnyīn_ to quickly and easily read and write ANYTHING in Mandarin. While others are mired in tradition, you’ll get ahead. pic.twitter.com/QwbS4mg9h4
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How can we tell Mandarin-speaking people that no one and nothing compares to Jehovah? What shows how great the need is in the worldwide Mandarin field?
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How can pondering the Needham Question help us in the Mandarin field?
“Never, never, never in this office say, ‘But we’ve always done it that way.’”
— Troubadour WW (@troubadourww) September 10, 2024
—Admiral Grace Hopper, computer programming pioneer
Re writing Mandarin with Chinese characters, many say, “But we’ve always done it that way.”
However, as _Lǔ Xùn_ asked, does that make it right? pic.twitter.com/eFCN6fPYtY
Chinese characters are the punched cards of writing systems. Punched cards were not totally impossible to use, but there are now much better and easier-to-use ways to control computers.
BinaryApe
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
What kind of spiritual attack do Jehovah’s people, including those in the Mandarin field, need to be on guard against?
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In the Mandarin field, how can we avoid acting indecently in God’s eyes?
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How can we talk to Mandarin-speaking people about how well-coordinated the molecular machines inside our cells are?
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Who is Lǐ Huá? Why have so many Chinese people and American people been talking about Lǐ Huá on the Chinese social media app Xiǎohóngshū (RedNote)?
Learning Mandarin out of spite? You're not alone.
— Duolingo (@duolingo) January 15, 2025
We’ve seen a ~216% growth in new Chinese (Mandarin) learners in the US compared to this time last year. https://t.co/9hzwBxfTgD pic.twitter.com/qWM9f5oFYA
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[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 Enjoy Life Forever! (lff) book is currently officially recommended for use on Bible studies, and it is currently 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 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 2024-07 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 2024-07 Printing of the Mandarin Enjoy Life Forever! book and the current 2024 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.)
The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
What are some Mandarin expressions that we could keep in mind when speaking with Mandarin-speaking people about extreme weather and climate change?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
What message do we have to offer to Mandarin-speaking people about the meaningfulness of life?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
Why should we Mandarin field language learners not hesitate to discuss the technically challenging subject of creation with Mandarin-speaking people?
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