The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
For Mandarin field language learners, how does Zhùyīn compare with Pīnyīn?
Zhùyīn, or Bopomofo, in regular, handwritten regular, and cursive formats
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Is “just” learning Chinese characters “the hard way” the key to success in the Mandarin field?
“To Jehovah, for whom ‘a thousand years is as one day’, Chinese civilization has only been around for a few days.… “…we should boast in Jehovah, not in needlessly and self-indulgently complex knowledge relating to a mere worldly human culture” troubadourworks.com/tiandi/meotw... #MEotW #PīnyīnPlus
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Does Jehovah see Chinese characters as a successful writing system? Or does he see characters as a Great Wall obstructing his vital preaching and teaching work in the worldwide Mandarin field?
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As beloved as they are by many, why have there been serious, concerted efforts to simplify and replace traditional Chinese characters?
“愛” is the Traditional Chinese character for “love”. It appropriately has the “heart” radical (“心”) in it, but it’s quite…complicated. 😓
— Troubadour WW (@troubadourww) February 20, 2017
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In the Mandarin field, how can we decide what kind of Mandarin to learn and to speak?
Sometimes that Boston accent slips out when you least expect it pic.twitter.com/urXO2xrQ6E
— Ellen Fleming (@EllenFlem) January 12, 2023
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In the Mandarin field, what kinds of glory should we be mindful of?
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How could we reply to a Mandarin-speaking person who says that the idea of a world without war is just a fairy tale?
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How can we talk in Mandarin about a war to end all wars?
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...is the title of a new post at tiandi.info. Here’s the text from the news feed:
Gūgu gàga? Let us grow up and learn to ride our “bicycles” well instead!
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This recent post on the PandaGator blog offers a personal experience about an interesting concrete example of the kinds of sacrifices and adjustments some make to further their service in the Chinese field.
For those for whom English is not their native tongue, this dictionary page tells us that “nuts” does not necessarily mean “insane; crazy”, since another meaning is “extremely enthusiastic”.
I have recently come across a couple of interesting blogs written by fellow students of Chinese, who happen to be from Florida, USA. Here are the links, along with some excerpts from their About pages:
http://stephenanddianna.com/
“This website is dedicated to providing useful information for preparing, traveling and living in Taiwan. Hopefully, this online blog will answer alot of questions and mysteries about living in Taiwan. Plus we wanted a way to keep in touch with our family and friends. Send us an email if you’d like and just drop a comment. We hope you can live and enjoy this experience with us.”
http://pandagator.info/blog/
“This blog is dedicated to those learning Mandarin Chinese. Learning another language is not just about vocabulary and grammar, it’s also about the people who speak it. Their language is inextricably tied in with their history, their food, and their land.
“I also write about my own experience learning Mandarin as someone who lives on the other side of the world in Florida, USA. I comment on the unique challenges this sometimes presents.”
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