MEotW: jī‐tóng‐yā‐jiǎng

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• jī‐tóng‐yā‐jiǎng

What are some factors affecting whether or not Mandarin field language learners know certain basic truths about the Chinese languages?

Allowing various untruths to continue to divert and bog down the language-learning efforts of those who come to help in the worldwide Mandarin field can have incalculable overall negative effects on the preaching work in this enormous field.

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MEotW: yǔzú

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• yǔzú

How closely—or distantly—related are Mandarin and Cantonese? Are Mandarin, Cantonese, etc. just dialects of “Chinese”?

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MEotW: Yuèyǔ

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• Yuèyǔ

Is Cantonese just a dialect of “Chinese”? Is Cantonese just a spoken language?

Publications are now available on jw.org that are written in these Chinese varieties.

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MEotW: fā yǔyīn

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• fā yǔyīn

What does the popularity among WeChat users of sending voice messages tell us about Chinese characters?

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MEotW: yǔzú

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

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• yǔzú

Is a language family divided first into groups or branches? Are Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, etc. just dialects of “Chinese”?

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