“God’s Love” Bk.
(Chinese-Cantonese Rom.-English PDFs)
Updated 2017-10-02
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Contents
- Introduction
- Disclaimer
- Translation and Proofreading
- Downloading and Opening the Files
- Updates and Other Information
- Download Links
Introduction
The material posted below complements the Chinese “God’s Love” book by adding Cantonese romanization and English. It is available in Traditional Chinese.
[Update 2017-10-02: The text of this material from the beginning to the end of Chapter 5 has been checked, and has been found to match the corresponding text of the current official 2017-02 Mandarin version of the “God’s Love” book on the WOL. (There is currently no separate Cantonese version with text that’s different from the Mandarin version.) During this checking, some errors were found in the material. The affected PDF files available for download below have been revised with annotations indicating the errors that were found. (Unfortunately, some less advanced PDF-viewing apps such as iBooks do not fully support PDF annotations, but PDF annotations are well supported in modern PDF-viewing apps such as GoodReader, Documents, Adobe Acrobat Reader, etc.) Further checking will be done as time allows.]
Disclaimer
Remember that the material is a complement to the “God’s Love” book, not a replacement for it. If a “God’s Love” book is available, this material should be used along with it, not instead of it. This material is only meant to help publishers working in the Cantonese field, so that they can more quickly become more effective at preaching and teaching the good news to Cantonese-speaking people without being unnecessarily obstructed and delayed by the complex and difficult-to-learn-and-remember Chinese characters.
IMPORTANT: Please do not use this material as an excuse or as a crutch to just “get by” or “muddle through” at Chinese meetings or Bible discussions. By all means, make good use of this material in such settings, but most importantly, use this material to help you really improve your knowledge and understanding of the Chinese language, so that you can 1) listen with more understanding and 2) speak more effectively from your heart while praising Jehovah and preaching and teaching the good news in the Chinese field.
Translation and Proofreading
The English translation follows these principles:
- As far as possible, the meaning of each individual Chinese character is translated literally according to how it is used in the context in which it appears.
- Curly brackets, or braces, i.e. { }, are used to surround sets of English words that together convey the literal meaning of the Chinese character(s) they are above.
- When a single English word or a set of English words surrounded by curly brackets is over two or more Chinese characters, that means that it corresponds to the literal meaning of those Chinese characters, taken as a group.
- When literal translations do not make sense, or are not understandable enough, then the effective meanings are used instead, surrounded by square brackets, i.e. [ ].
- English words corresponding to Chinese characters that are selected for their sound and not their meaning, such as those used for many names, are not surrounded by square brackets. However, if necessary, they will be surrounded by curly brackets to specify which Chinese characters they correspond to.
While some other recent 3-line material has been released by others without being proofread, which does have the benefit of allowing the material to be released more quickly, the Chinese characters and the English translations in this “God’s Love” book material have been carefully translated and proofread. Thus, you can reliably use this material to help you gain insight into the meanings of the Chinese expressions used in it. Also, since much care was taken to ensure that the English translations are context-appropriate, this material also reliably shows you how the Chinese expressions in it are used in particular contexts.
However, the material may of course still contain errors. If you find any errors in the Chinese or English lines, email me to let me know. The Cantonese romanizations were generated automatically by computer, and have not been proofread. If you find any errors in the Cantonese romanization, please report them to this email address.
Downloading and Opening the Files
To download any of the files using Safari on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch:
- Make sure the PDF-viewing app you want to use (e.g. GoodReader, Documents, Adobe Acrobat Reader, etc.) is installed.
- In Safari, tap on the link for the PDF file you want to download.
- Wait for the PDF file to finish downloading, then tap Safari’s Share button (the rectangle with an arrow pointing upwards). (This article has directions on how to set up and use the Share button.)
- In the resulting menu, tap the appropriate icon to send a copy of the PDF file to the app of your choice. (Check that app’s manual or help information for instructions on how to move the file to the folder you want it to be in, how to optimize your viewing experience, etc.)
To download the files on a PC or a Mac:
- Right-click on the desired download link and select Save Link As..., or Save Target As..., or Download Linked File As..., or something similar depending on your browser.
- Select a folder on your hard drive to save the file to and click the Save button or something similar to proceed with the download.
The files are in Portable Document Format (PDF), and can be opened using the Adobe Reader program, version 5 or above, although I recommend that you use the latest version. This program is free to download, and it runs on a variety of platforms, including Macs. (Mac OS X’s Preview program may be used as well.) This button links to the download page for Adobe Reader:
Updates and Other Information
Check the Links News blog (news feed, Twitter) for news regarding updates to this resource, and also for news regarding other resources prepared by our fellow workers in the Chinese field. You may also find it interesting to check out the tiandi.info blog (news feed, Twitter), which is about various things related to the Chinese field. (Email me if you need login information, and include information on who referred you and/or what group/cong. you are in.)
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If you have any questions or comments, e-mail me at waynerj@shaw.ca.
I hope you enjoy using the material. May it help you to serve more effectively and joyfully in the Cantonese field.
Your fellow worker,
Wayne Wong