The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How can we be qualified to speak in Mandarin about such potentially technical subjects as evolution and creation?
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Many of you may have noticed that it has been officially announced in the June 2015 km that the Imitate book will be considered at the CBS, starting the week of October 19, 2015. Now, the first unofficial Imitate book material with English ruby text has been posted:
tiandi.info/ia has been updated with the above resources. Also, link pages leading to the above resources have been posted at 3lines.org.
The list of reasons I decided to proceed with working on Pīnyīn and Pīnyīn-English material for the Imitate book has been updated as well:
Note that:
Also, the introductions explain why it’s good to use Pīnyīn and Sidney Lau romanization as writing systems on their own.
Many of you may have noticed that it has been officially announced in the June 2015 km that the Imitate book will be considered at the CBS, starting the week of October 19, 2015. In advance of that, the official Pīnyīn and Sidney Lau Imitate book PDF files recently became available for download on jw.org.
Accordingly, the following information has been added to tiandi.info/ia:
Official Pīnyīn and Sidney Lau PDFs
jw.org
(PUBLICATIONS ▶ BOOKS & BROCHURES ▶
DISPLAY: Chinese (Simplified) ▶
《信心的榜样》PDF)
Some Chinese field resource pages that went offline because of some glitch at shaw.ca have been restored. These pages are:
I have been hearing that some are unable to access the 2010 3-line km material from 3lines.org. When I emailed the one overseeing this material, this was in the reply:
I concluded that, some how others might have been passing the [Link-Key] instead of pointing to the [3lines.org]. Therefore, the procedure to obtain the [Link-Key] is to 1). through the KM request register [go to 3lines.org, log in, then click on km] THEN 2). send in a response to confirm their request through [Eng KM 3lines]. and 3). finally the [Link-Key] will send to the brother(s). And if they did not acknowledge they receipted the [Link-Key], they will need to go through steps again.
Thanks
The links that were offline, as mentioned in the previous post, are now back online. Again, sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Some of the links will be offline temporarily while a problem with the web host is attended to, including the links for the Chinese courses and those for the km magazine presentation and computer-generated NWT audio files. The br. who arranged for this web host for us tells me it should be resolved in a few days. If there are some files you need during the next few days that are offline, just email me and I will send them to you directly. Sorry for any inconvenience this causes.
I have decided to delay the release of the next Links update until this is resolved, to help ensure a good experience with it for everyone. It should give me time to squeeze in at least one more goody...
At the Lasting Peace Brochure (Chinese + Pinyin + English) page, complete files integrating the new questions from the 2005-11 km and other changes are now available in addition to the original files.
The Mandarin audio file for the presentation for the Apr. 2007 g from the Apr. 2007 km has been posted to the km Presentations Audio Files page.
The Cantonese and Mandarin audio files for the presentation from the Feb. 2007 km for the 2007 Mem. invitation have been posted to the km Magazine Presentation Audio Files page.
UPDATE: Since there are now files for presentations that are for publications besides the magazines, and since there may be more in the future, the title of the km Magazine Presentation Audio Files page (as it is called in recent Links emails) has been changed to km Presentations Audio Files. The links in recent Links emails with the old title will continue to work, since the Internet address has not changed.
The Mandarin audio file for the presentation for the Feb. 2007 g from the Feb. 2007 km has been posted to the km Magazine Presentation Audio Files page.
The Mandarin audio file for the km presentation for the Feb. 15, 2007 w has been posted to the km Magazine Presentation Audio Files page.
Note also that the page’s format has been updated to make it easier to find a past presentation, which may be adapted and reused for presenting something else. As it now says on that page:
The presentation files linked to below are listed in chronological order based on the magazine issue they were originally for. However, note that the presentations have a basic structure of:
- Discussion on a theme
- Reading of a scripture
- Offer of a magazine
So, it is relatively easy to adapt them for offering other literature as well by just changing the last element to whatever you want to offer, such as a brochure, a book, or a different magazine. To make it easier to find and reuse the presentations that have a particular theme or that use a certain scripture, an index is provided at the end of this page. Also, links in the Index Items column may be used to go to the indicated item in the index to see what other presentations there are with the same theme or scripture.
Since it is now much easier to find, adapt, and reuse them, I plan to eventually repost all the presentation files that are older than those currently on the page. I plan to continue to create and post new presentation files as well, as time allows. Since my time has been limited lately, though, I will be focusing first on Mandarin files, since that seems to be the more active field currently. However, I also plan to continue to produce Cantonese files when I can, since that is still a big field. In fact, the idea for this page and its audio files first came from an email exchange I had with a brother in the Cantonese field.
Audio files for the Kingdom News No. 37 presentation in the Sept. km have been posted to the km Magazine Presentation Audio Files page. Both Cantonese and Mandarin versions are available.
The audio files for the km presentations for the special Sept. 2006 g have been posted to the km Magazine Presentation Audio Files page. The 2006-09_g-M.zip file is for the presentation in the Aug. 2006 km, and the 2006-09_g-M2.zip file is for the presentation in the Sept. 2006 km.
The Nov. 2005 km (Hong Kong edition only) contained an important article with revised instructions on the use of the Lasting Peace brochure. Links to files with an English translation of this article, based on work by Kenny Wang, have been added to the Chinese, Pinyin, & English Lasting Peace Brochure page. The files also contain all the revised study questions with added pinyin and English, one file using Simplified characters and the other file using Traditional characters.
Cantonese & Mandarin audio files for the 2006-07-15 w km magazine presentation and a Mandarin audio file for the second 2006-07 g km magazine presentation have been posted to the km Magazine Presentation Audio Files site.
I originally hoped to keep up with all the km magazine presentations in both Cantonese and Mandarin, however, time constraints have prevented me from doing so. My goal now is just to create and post audio files for as many current magazine presentations as I have time for.
If any of you (as individuals or teams):
produce a sample .mp3 file of a km magazine presentation and email it to me, and we'll see what we can arrange.
