Available for the Mandarin Bible Reading for the week of 2026-09-07 (next week!) (Jer.32:6–18): Proofread _Pīnyīn+_ material (mobile-friendly, adjustable text size, integrated flashcards, human-translated English, Simp. & Trad. Ch. …) troubadourworks.com/tiandi/nw...
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
What truths do we know about Mandarin and learning Mandarin? If we know some of these truths, what are we going to do about it?
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What can we tell Mandarin-speaking people in the field about the tiny machines inside our cells?
A computer-animated visualization of how tiny molecular machines inside our cells copy DNA
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How has the worldly nation of China long viewed itself?
The earliest known appearance of “Zhōngguó (中國)”, inscribed on the Western Zhōu bronze vessel Hé Zūn
“To Jehovah, for whom ‘a thousand years is as one day’, Chinese civilization has only been around for a few days.…
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“…we should boast in Jehovah, not in needlessly and self-indulgently complex knowledge relating to a mere worldly human culture” https://t.co/emXNAng9W2#MEotW pic.twitter.com/xEjlDPAkud
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How can we talk to people in Mandarin about whether economic reform can bring world peace?
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How can we talk in Mandarin about the well-designed natural cycles that make life possible on earth?
A map showing Beijing’s ring roads (source)
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What different expressions are used in the Mandarin NWT Bible to refer to different kinds of peace?
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What could we say to people in Mandarin about artificial intelligence (AI)?
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Proofread Musical Notation 🎼 with _Pīnyīn_ Lyrics Available for the Concluding Song for Mandarin 2026 Conventions (proofread, mobile-friendly, "flashcards" with English meanings, Simp. & Trad. characters, etc., zip file for offline use…) troubadourworks.com/tiandi/sj...
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Faced with the cultural and traditional Goliath that is the Chinese characters, how can we imitate David?
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How can we talk to people in Mandarin about current issues related to energy, like high gas prices, etc.?
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Available for the Mandarin Bible Reading for the week of 2026-05-11 (next week!) (Isa.61:1–9): Proofread _Pīnyīn_ material (more correct and better-rendered than computer-generated _Pīnyīn_, easy to see & read on mobile) or better (e.g., _Pīnyīn_ Plus) troubadourworks.com/tiandi/nw...
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
What can help us to avoid being unfair to others, to ourselves, and to Jehovah in the Mandarin field?
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How can we say in Mandarin that Jesus will soon bring an end to all violence?
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Proofread _Pīnyīn_ Plus Lyrics Available for the Concluding Song for Mandarin 2026 Conventions (proofread, mobile-friendly, adjustable text size, zip file for offline use…) troubadourworks.com/tiandi/sj...
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
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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[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 latest, greatest version of the official Mandarin New World Translation Bible is now the 2026 Mandarin version of the Study Edition (nwtsty).
The existing Pīnyīn Plus web material resources based on the 2001 Edition, 2007 Printing (bi12) and the 2019 Edition, 2020 Printing (nwt) of the Mandarin NWT Bible will continue to be available, but they will not be significantly further developed. Instead, further development re Mandarin NWT Bible Pīnyīn Plus web material will be focused on the below resource that is based on the previous resources. This resource is in the process of being revised to match the latest 2026 Study Edition (nwtsty), with notes on each related page indicating where any material still based on older source material remains:
In the above resource, fully proofread Pīnyīn Plus web material is now available that matches many often-used scriptures in the current 2026 Study Edition (nwtsty) of the Mandarin NWT Bible.
The material in the above resource with a grey background has not yet been fully proofread, and may be based on an older version of the Mandarin NWT Bible. Pīnyīn material in the above resource with a golden-hued background has been proofread to ensure that it is correct Pīnyīn that matches the current version of the Mandarin NWT Bible, but not all of its “flashcards” have been added and proofread.
More existing material will be revised and more new material will be added in the above resource as time allows, e.g., as part of the process of producing Pīnyīn Plus web material for scriptures for other publications.
[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:
In the grand scheme of things, how important is technology?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How can we benefit from avoiding unnecessary ceremony?
Ben Cohen, manager of the Swift team at Apple, speaks of their core design goal of making the Swift programming language ceremony-free.
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Chinese characters have lots and lots and lots of ceremony, especially compared to _Pīnyīn_.https://t.co/vPLUThxUYp pic.twitter.com/aDOlKOIbWt
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How can we talk to honest-hearted ones in the Mandarin field about the fighting in the Middle East?
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