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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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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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 following language-learning resource for the Learn From the Bible book (currently being studied at Congregation Bible Study meetings) now matches the 2025-03 Printing of that publication, and all the scriptures in it from the Mandarin New World Translation Bible now match the nwtsty 2024 version of that Bible:
can be used offline in supporting browsers, icon can be added to the home screenIn the above resource, the following web material is now available for the Mandarin Learn From the Bible book:
Note that like other Pīnyīn Plus web material resources, the above resource can be used offline. Also, an icon can be added to the home screen with supporting browsers.
On the iPhone, the iPad, and in WebKit-based web browsers (e.g., Safari, Orion) on the Mac, scripture links labelled as “JW nwtsty” will go to the indicated scripture in the Mandarin New World Translation Study Bible in the JW Library app, if those are downloaded and installed. (I have not yet been able to test these links on Android or Windows. If you have been able to do so, email me to let me know the results!)
While incomplete, this material can help Mandarin field language learners—especially, but not only, those who can read English—to get past the Great Wall of characters and supercharge their efforts to prepare for and participate in Mandarin discussions using the Learn From the Bible book, such as those now scheduled for the Congregation Bible Study sections of our Life and Ministry meetings.
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
Is anger an appropriate reaction to the suggestion to focus less on characters and more on Pīnyīn?
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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.]
Partially proofread Pīnyīn web material (more correct than computer-generated Pīnyīn like that displayed by apps like Equipd, and more mobile-friendly than PDFs) or better is available for up to Lesson 65 of the Learn From the Bible book in the following resource:
can be used offline in supporting browsers, icon can be added to the home screenIn the above resource, the following web material is now available for the Mandarin Learn From the Bible book:
Note that like most of the other Pīnyīn Plus web material resources, the above resource can be used offline. Also, an icon can be added to the home screen with supporting browsers.
While incomplete, this material can help Mandarin field language learners—especially, but not only, those who can read English—to get past the Great Wall of characters and supercharge their efforts to prepare for and participate in Mandarin discussions using the Learn From the Bible book, such as those now scheduled for the Congregation Bible Study sections of our Life and Ministry meetings.
[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 Mandarin field, how can we show love that “does not look for its own interests”?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
In the Mandarin field, what are some ways in which jealousy could affect us if we allow it to?
In God's organization, our unity is based on God's truth, not on human tradition.
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Maybe this is connected to why so many Chinese people seem to think,
— Troubadour WW (@troubadourww) April 13, 2024
“I suffered with Chinese characters, so you must suffer with them too!”
rather than,
“I want you to use _Pīnyīn_ so you won’t have to suffer with Chinese characters like I did.” https://t.co/rgv337FoFi
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
In the Mandarin field, how can we avoid acting indecently in God’s eyes?
In God's organization, our unity is based on God's truth, not on human tradition.
— tiandi, Links News (@tiandilinksnews.bsky.social) February 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How much should we let it bother us that “app” has been borrowed from English into Mandarin, even being written in Latin alphabet letters? Why might it be that it’s pronounced in Mandarin by saying out its letters?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
Ultimately, in the Chinese fields, how valuable or not valuable is knowledge of the secrets of Chinese characters?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
Is it better to be inspired or to have love?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How can we avoid being a “clashing cymbal” in the Mandarin field?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
What Mandarin expressions might Chinese people of the world think of when they think of “God”?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How does the 2023 Mandarin NWT Bible’s new translation of John 5:29 harmonize with our new understanding of this scripture?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
What if we could speak Mandarin fluently, and knew all the Chinese characters? Is that all we need in the Mandarin field?
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