BREAKING NEWS: The Latest Update of the JW Library App Supports Pīnyīn

BREAKING NEWS:

In the latest update of the JW Library app (iOS/iPadOS):

“14.1
Sep 29, 2023

Display pinyin and furigana pronunciation guides for Chinese and Japanese, when available.”

I haven’t found anything yet with _Pīnyīn_—updated files may need to be downloaded first.

— tiandi, Links News (@TiandiLinksNews) September 30, 2023

A friend who uses Android confirmed to me that this new version of the JW Library app with support for _Pīnyīn_ is now available for Android too. Publication updates with support for _Pīnyīn_ are required for _Pīnyīn_ to be visible, and these are starting to be available as well.

— tiandi, Links News (@TiandiLinksNews) September 30, 2023

The JW Library app’s **Display Pinyin** setting is similar to the **Pinyin** checkbox in the Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY.

In the JW Library app, when you navigate to a chapter/lesson/etc. that supports this setting, a menu item for it will appear in the **More (…)** menu: pic.twitter.com/c8arfkMhpf

— tiandi, Links News (@TiandiLinksNews) October 8, 2023

At the time of this writing, the JW Library page on Apple’s App Store and the JW Library page on the Google Play store both show this new version 14.1, dated September 29, 2023, as being available in my location. (Due to the technical challenges involved in making apps available for download worldwide, an app version may become available in different parts of the world at slightly different times.) Pīnyīn thus becoming available in the JW Library app is good news for us Mandarin field language learners, since it represents additional ongoing real-world official support for us from Jehovah’s organization!

MEotW: āijiā‐āihù

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

• āijiā‐āihù

Shall we stick with false “perfection” or strive for progress?

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Official Chinese Audio Files Now Available for Download

Starting on Feb. 1, 2009, Mandarin MP3 and AAC audio files, playable on iPods and similar devices, began to be available for download from the Society’s http://www.jw.org/ web site. The Chinese file download pages, one in Simplified characters (汉语) and one in Traditional characters (漢語), can be selected using the Language dropdown box in the upper right corner of the page. Both these download pages contain links to download Mandarin audio files—no Cantonese files are in evidence at this time.

Currently, Mandarin audio files are available for recent issues of the Watchtower and Awake! magazines, and for the J’s Day and Bible Teach books.