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Many believe the Ideographic Myth about Chinese characters, but are Mandarin versions of names from other languages generally based on meaning or sound?
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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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In contrast to the haphazardly evolved Chinese characters, how is Pīnyīn well-designed, neat, and orderly, like the manufacturing processes inside our cells?
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How can we ask rhetorical questions in Mandarin?
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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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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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How can we talk about and show empathy in the Mandarin field?
This week’s MEotW in the unofficial Pīnyīn Plus resource “Sing Out Joyfully” Bk. (Pīnyīn+Music, Pīnyīn Plus, Web)
A screenshot from an official video, of Sis. Margarita Königer and others using official Pīnyīn Sing to Jehovah songbooks with musical notation
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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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While the manufacturing processes inside our cells are not haphazard, how is the design of Chinese characters haphazard?
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What understanding can help us Mandarin field language learners to move beyond “knowing just enough to be dangerous”?
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Why should we not balk when faced with the Great Wall of Characters, or when faced with the alternate Pīnyīn ways past it?
This week’s MEotW in the unofficial Pīnyīn Plus resource “Sing Out Joyfully” Bk. (Pīnyīn+Music, Pīnyīn Plus, Web)
Do we balk when faced with the Great Wall of Characters?
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Is a character like “喇” really less ambiguous than a Pīnyīn expression like “lǎ”?
Joshua 2:1 in the Mandarin NWT Study Bible, in the JW Library app
Joshua 2:1 in the PDF for the old printed Pīnyīn NWT Bible
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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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Would it be good for other writing systems to emulate Chinese characters when it comes to (supposedly) representing meaning directly, without depending on speech sounds?
Should children be taught to read English, etc. words as if they were ideograms, like Chinese characters are supposed to be?
The Library tab in the JW Library app
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When might it be good to be “contrarian” in the Mandarin field?
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How do we respond to the voodooesque power of the Great Wall of characters?
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How can we express in Mandarin our determination to stick to the truth?
This week’s MEotW in the unofficial Pīnyīn Plus resource “Sing Out Joyfully” Bk. (Pīnyīn+Music, Pīnyīn Plus, Web)
A screenshot from an official video, of Sis. Margarita Königer and others using official Pīnyīn Sing to Jehovah songbooks with musical notation
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Is anger an appropriate reaction to the suggestion to focus less on characters and more on Pīnyīn?
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How can we talk to Mandarin-speaking people, many of whom believe in evolution, about the “security guards” built into our cells?
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What helps to show that Jehovah has been directing things in the worldwide Mandarin field?
A screenshot of early 3-line PDF material from 2001, based on the book Is There a Creator Who Cares About You?
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