The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
For Mandarin field language learners, why is it better to follow basic principles of linguistics than it is to just follow Chinese cultural traditions regarding Chinese characters?
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What can we say to Mandarin-speaking people about the cleansing effects of the earth’s natural cycles?
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How does the Mandarin expression meaning “interactive” work to express this meaning?
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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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As we offer the Enjoy Life Forever! brochure to Mandarin-speaking people, what can we say to them about the Bible study course that’s available?
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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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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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How might a Mandarin-speaking person say “it doesn’t matter how we worship God”?
Lyrics for the Faye Wong song “Shìyán” (“Pledge”) in Apple Music, on an iPad
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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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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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What can help us to reintroduce Mandarin-speaking Chinese people to the Supreme Sovereign of the universe?
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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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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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