MEotW: nándào

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• nándào

How can we ask rhetorical questions in Mandarin?

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MEotW: wú‐suǒwèi

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• wú‐suǒwèi

How might a Mandarin-speaking person say “it doesn’t matter how we worship God”?

Lyrics for the Faye Wong song “Shìyán” (“Pledge”) in Apple Music, on an iPad

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MEotW: wūdú

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• wūdú

How do we respond to the voodooesque power of the Great Wall of characters?

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MEotW: Dì‐Èr Cì Shìjiè Dàzhàn

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• Dì‐Èr Cì Shìjiè Dàzhàn

Why should we learn how to discuss in Mandarin what lesson 13 of the Enjoy Life Forever! book says about World War II?

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MEotW: Zàowù‐Zhǔ

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• Zàowù‐Zhǔ

Why is it especially important to talk to people in the Mandarin field about the evidence showing that the Creator exists?

The worldwide Mandarin field is by far the largest language field in the world, and it’s likely that it is the largest language field ever in history.

In addition to the inherent technical difficulty of the subject of creation/evolution, Mandarin field language learners also face the Great Wall of characters.

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MEotW: lìliang

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• lìliang

Why is it especially important to talk to people in the Mandarin field about the impressive and moving ways in which Jehovah God uses his power?

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MEotW: xīngqiú

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• xīngqiú

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 Enjoy Life Forever! Bk. Pīnyīn Plus Web Resource Now Matches the 2024-07 Official Mandarin Version on the WOL

[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:

• 
• Enjoy Life Forever! Bk.
  (Pīnyīn Plus, Web)
  (rich information about Mandarin speech
  for discussing basic Bible teachings,
  as represented by the text of the
  Mandarin Enjoy Life Forever! book,
  2024-07 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,
  video thumbnails, links, & transcripts,
  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 >
  Enjoy Life Forever! Book Links (tiandi.info/lff)

Videos 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:

Fully Proofread Pīnyīn Plus Material:

• Front Cover to the video of Lesson 03, Point 5

Partially Proofread Pīnyīn/Pīnyīn Plus Material or Better:

• Lesson 03, Point 5 to Lesson 16, Point 5;
• Lesson 25, up to “DIG DEEPER”;
• Lesson 31, up to Point 3;
• Lesson 35, up to Point 1;
• Lesson 39, up to Point 2, Point 4;
• Lesson 41, up to Point 2;
• Endnotes 1–2;
• Get Started Reading the Bible;
• Track Your Bible Reading

(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.)

MEotW: ǒurán

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• ǒurán

What message do we have to offer to Mandarin-speaking people about the meaningfulness of life?

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MEotW: fàzhǐ

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• fàzhǐ

What is one perhaps surprising way in which we can describe in Mandarin the intense anger some feel regarding false religion’s involvement in war?

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MEotW: shūtú‐tóngguī

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• shūtú‐tóngguī

For us Mandarin field language learners, do all language-learning “roads” lead to the same place?

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MEotW: chǎojià

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• chǎojià

How can we talk in Mandarin about arguing? Should we use the same language to describe how Jesus spoke with the Pharisees, etc.?

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The Enjoy Life Forever! Bk. Pīnyīn Plus Web Resource Now Matches the 2024-06 Official Mandarin Version on the WOL

[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 2024-06 Printing now on the Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY:

• 
• Enjoy Life Forever! Bk.
  (Pīnyīn Plus, Web)
  (rich information about Mandarin speech
  for discussing basic Bible teachings,
  as represented by the text of the
  Mandarin Enjoy Life Forever! book,
  2024-06 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,
  video thumbnails, links, & transcripts,
  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 > Books >
  Enjoy Life Forever! Book Links (tiandi.info/lff)

Videos 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 2024-06 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:

Fully Proofread Pīnyīn Plus Material:

• Front Cover to the end of Lesson 03, Point 1

Partially Proofread Pīnyīn/Pīnyīn Plus Material or Better:

• Lesson 03, Point 2 to Lesson 15, Point 3
• Lesson 25, up to Point 2;
• Lesson 39, Point 4;
• Endnote 1;
• Get Started Reading the Bible;
• Track Your Bible Reading

(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.)

MEotW: Fēixíng Móshì

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• Fēixíng Móshì

Why is it good for us to be able to talk in Mandarin about Airplane Mode and other things related to mobile devices?

The Airplane Mode button in Control Center (iPhone, iOS 17.4.1)

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The Enjoy Life Forever! Bk. Pīnyīn Plus Web Resource Now Matches the 2024-01 Official Mandarin Version on the WOL

[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 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:

• 
• Enjoy Life Forever! Bk.
  (Pīnyīn Plus, Web)
  (rich information about Mandarin speech
  for discussing basic Bible teachings,
  as represented by the text of the
  Mandarin Enjoy Life Forever! book,
  2024-01 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,
  video thumbnails, links, & transcripts,
  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 > Books >
  Enjoy Life Forever! Book Links (tiandi.info/lff)

Videos 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:

Fully Proofread Pīnyīn Plus Material:

• Front Cover to the end of Lesson 02

Partially Proofread Pīnyīn/Pīnyīn Plus Material or Better:

• Lesson 03 to Lesson 14, Point 3
• Lesson 25, up to Point 2;
• Lesson 39, Point 4;
• Endnote 1;
• Get Started Reading the Bible;
• Track Your Bible Reading

(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.)

MEotW: xīndé

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• xīndé

In the Chinese fields, is it enough to just fill our minds with knowledge about Chinese characters?

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MEotW: xuè

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• xuè

What are some Mandarin expressions related to blood that are good for Mandarin field language learners to know?

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MEotW: shēn‐lín‐qí‐jìng

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• shēn‐lín‐qí‐jìng

How can we talk in Mandarin about how reading the Bible can seem to transport us to another time and place?

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The Enjoy Life Forever! Bk. Pīnyīn Plus Web Resource Now Matches the 2023-07 Official Mandarin Version on the WOL

[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 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 2023-07 Printing now on the Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY:

• 
• Enjoy Life Forever! Bk.
  (Pīnyīn Plus, Web)
  (rich information about Mandarin speech
  for discussing basic Bible teachings,
  as represented by the text of the
  Mandarin Enjoy Life Forever! book,
  2023-07 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,
  video thumbnails, links, & transcripts,
  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 > Books >
  Enjoy Life Forever! Book Links (tiandi.info/lff)

Videos 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 2023-07 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:

Fully Proofread Pīnyīn Plus Material:

• Front Cover to the end of Lesson 02

Partially Proofread Pīnyīn and Pīnyīn Plus Material:

• Lesson 03 to Lesson 12, Point 5;
• Lesson 25, up to Point 2;
• Get Started Reading the Bible;
• Track Your Bible Reading

(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.)

MEotW: áizhèng

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• áizhèng

How does the Mandarin word for “cancer” illustrate the best way to deal with Mandarin’s many homophones?

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