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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 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 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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What could we say to people in Mandarin about artificial intelligence (AI)?
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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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What can help us to avoid being unfair to others, to ourselves, and to Jehovah in the Mandarin field?
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How can we say in Mandarin that the galaxies are distributed according to a pattern?
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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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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 we get Mandarin-speaking people thinking about whether the universe was designed?
The worldwide Mandarin field is by far the largest language field in the world, and it’s likely that it is the largest language field ever in history.
In addition to the inherent technical difficulty of the subject of creation/evolution, Mandarin field language learners also face the Great Wall of characters.
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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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Are Chinese characters really more universal than alphabetic writing systems are?
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