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Why is the Mandarin word for “hundred” in the Mandarin word for “lily”?
This week’s MEotW in the unofficial Pīnyīn Plus / Pīnyīn+ resource “Sing Out Joyfully” Bk. (Pīnyīn+Music, Pīnyīn Plus / Pīnyīn+, Web)
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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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What do the morphemes in the Mandarin expression meaning “Gospel” actually mean?
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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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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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What are some common myths and misconceptions about Pīnyīn?
If a Mandarin expression can only be understood when it’s written in characters, then it will lead to a failure to communicate when it’s spoken.
If a Mandarin expression can be understood when it’s spoken, then it can be understood when it’s written in _Pīnyīn_. — Troubadour WW (@troubadourww) October 24, 2020
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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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What can help us talk to Mandarin-speaking people about whether God used evolution to create living things?
To represent how God caused humans to come into existence, the Mandarin New World Translation Bible uses “chuàngzào”, and the Héhé Běn (Union Version Chinese Bible) uses “zào”. Both these expressions contain the sense of “made, created”, and perhaps “built”.
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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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How can we talk to people in Mandarin about current issues related to energy, like high gas prices, etc.?
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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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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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In the grand scheme of things, how important is technology?
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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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How can the beaver’s impressive industriousness and construction ability help us to reach the hearts of people in the Mandarin field?
A screenshot of the article “The Beaver’s Construction Ability” on jw.org
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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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Are Chinese characters really indispensable? Is it really true that the Chinese languages cannot be written alphabetically?
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Does each Chinese character really represent a one-syllable word?
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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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