The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
Besides the fact that David was a king, what connection is there between the Mandarin words for “psalmist” and “hold political power”?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
Why do the words “tea” and “chai” both exist when they basically refer to the same thing?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
Why does a recent jw.org article translate “Armageddon” as “shìjiè mòrì” instead of as “Hāmǐjíduōdùn”?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
Why might it be that the current Mandarin version of the New World Translation Bible (nwtsty) uses “zuì’è” instead of “zuìniè”?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
What expressions can we use to talk about hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, and climate change in Mandarin?
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The supplementary language-learning material mentioned in this post is for helping you to learn about how the Mandarin language is used in an official publication, so that you will be better able to help others in the Mandarin language field.]
The latest, greatest version of the official Mandarin New World Translation Bible is now the 2022 Mandarin version of the Study Edition (nwtsty).
The existing Pīnyīn Plus web material resources based on the 2001 Edition, 2007 Printing (bi12) and the 2019 Edition, 2020 Printing (nwt) of the Mandarin NWT Bible will continue to be available, but they will not be significantly further developed. Instead, further development re Mandarin NWT Bible Pīnyīn Plus web material will be focused on the below resource that is based on the previous resources. This resource is in the process of being revised to match the latest 2022 Study Edition (nwtsty), with notes on each related page indicating where any material still based on older source material remains:
In the above resource, fully proofread Pīnyīn Plus web material is now available that matches many often-used scriptures in the current 2022 Study Edition (nwtsty) of the Mandarin NWT Bible.
The material in the above resource with a grey background has not yet been fully proofread, and may be based on an older version of the Mandarin NWT Bible. Pīnyīn material in the above resource with a golden-hued background has been proofread to ensure that it is correct Pīnyīn that matches the current version of the Mandarin NWT Bible, but not all of its “flashcards” have been added and proofread.
More existing material will be revised and more new material will be added in the above resource as time allows, e.g., as part of the process of producing Pīnyīn Plus web material for scriptures for other publications.
[NOTE: While the organization expresses valid general concerns here about posting copies of official publications to the Internet, there are good legal and spiritual reasons for concluding that those concerns do not apply to this particular material, since such material should NOT be considered to be infringing on copyright, and since such material is specifically designed to be, NOT SPIRITUAL FOOD, but rather, material FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING. See this disclaimer for more information.]
The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
What’s a language, actually? Is it a writing system?
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