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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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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 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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What truths do we know about Mandarin and learning Mandarin? If we know some of these truths, what are we going to do about it?
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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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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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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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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 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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In the grand scheme of things, how important is technology?
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How can we benefit from avoiding unnecessary ceremony?
Ben Cohen, manager of the Swift team at Apple, speaks of their core design goal of making the Swift programming language ceremony-free.
— Troubadour WW (@troubadourww) June 25, 2022
Chinese characters have lots and lots and lots of ceremony, especially compared to _Pīnyīn_.https://t.co/vPLUThxUYp pic.twitter.com/aDOlKOIbWt
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How can we talk to honest-hearted ones in the Mandarin field about the fighting in the Middle East?
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How do some nitpick about Pīnyīn while ignoring a huge issue about characters?
Screenshot of “jìjiào” in 1 Co. 13:5 (nwtsty, CHS+Pīnyīn WOL)
The problem is not that Pīnyīn is like training wheels, because Pīnyīn is actually like regular wheels. The real problem is that characters are like square wheels!
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How can we talk to honest-hearted ones in the Mandarin field about the Doomsday Clock?
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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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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
— tiandi, Links News (@tiandilinksnews.bsky.social) Dec 2, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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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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