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\n\t\t\tzh\u01d0y\u01d0n<\/span>\n\t\t\t(zh\u01d0\u00b7y\u01d0n\n\t\t\t{(pointing with) finger \u2192<\/span> [pointing]}<\/span> \u00b7 guiding; leading<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u6307\u5f15)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t \ud83d\udc48\ud83c\udffc Tap\/click to show\/hide the \u201cflashcard\u201d<\/span>\n<\/h3>\n\n

[Notes:<\/strong> Tap\/click on a P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> expression to reveal its <\/span>\u201cflashcard\u201d<\/span>; tap\/click on a <\/span>\u201cflashcard\u201d<\/span> or its P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> expression to hide the<\/span> \u201cflashcard\u201d<\/span>. \ud83d\udcd6<\/span> \ud83d\udcc4<\/span> \ud83d\udcd8 icons mean \ud83d\udcd6<\/span> Reveal All<\/strong>, \ud83d\udcc4<\/span> Reveal Advanced<\/strong>, and \ud83d\udcd8 Reveal None<\/strong> re all the \u201cflashcards\u201d<\/span> in the heading, paragraph, etc. that they are placed at the beginning of.]<\/p>\n

Recently, I came across a video entitled \u201cMargarita K\u00f6niger: Glad I Chose This Career<\/a>\u201d. (This Watchtower<\/i> article<\/a> briefly discusses Sis. K\u00f6niger\u2019s experience coming into the truth, and her service up to about 1995. The video, which has a copyright date of 2016, is more up-to-date. In the video, we learn that Sis. K\u00f6niger began serving as a missionary in 1966, and that she had at that point been a missionary in the Chinese field in Budapest, Hungary for nine years.)<\/p>\n

Because of what I have seen and experienced in the Mandarin field for over three decades, what Sis. K\u00f6niger said starting at about the 5:10 mark of the video really resonates with me:<\/p>\n

English:<\/p>\n

\nIf you are in the full-time service, I think it\u2019s like you are travelling and Jehovah is directing<\/strong> you.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mandarin:<\/p>\n

\n\n\t\t\t\ud83d\udcd6<\/span> \ud83d\udcc4<\/span> \ud83d\udcd8<\/span>\n\n\t\t\tW\u01d2men<\/span> \n\t\t\t(W\u01d2\u00b7men \n\t\t\twe \u00b7 [pl]<\/i><\/span> \n\t\t\t\u6211\u4eec \n\t\t\t\u6211\u5011<\/span>)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\tt\u00f3ur\u00f9<\/span>\n\t\t\t(t\u00f3u\u00b7r\u00f9\n\t\t\t{(if) throw} \u00b7 {to enter} \u2192<\/span> [(if) participate in]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u6295\u5165)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\tqu\u00e1nsh\u00ed<\/span>\n\t\t\t(qu\u00e1n\u00b7sh\u00ed\n\t\t\tfull-\u00b7time<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u5168\u65f6\n\t\t\t\u5168\u6642<\/span>)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\tf\u00faw\u00f9<\/span>\n\t\t\t(f\u00fa\u00b7w\u00f9\n\t\t\tserving \u00b7 {devoting (of oneself)} \u2192<\/span> [service]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u670d\u52a1\n\t\t\t\u670d\u52d9<\/span>)<\/span>,\n\n\t\t\tji\u00f9<\/span> \n\t\t\t(then<\/span> \n\t\t\t\u5c31)<\/span> \n\n\t\t\th\u01ceoxi\u00e0ng<\/span>\n\t\t\t(h\u01ceo\u00b7xi\u00e0ng\n\t\t\t(it) {well \u2192<\/span> [very much]}<\/span> \u00b7 {is like}<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u597d\u50cf\/\u8c61)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\tsh\u00ec<\/span> \n\t\t\t({(it) is (that)}<\/span> \n\t\t\t\u662f)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\tn\u01d0<\/span> \n\t\t\t(you<\/span> \n\t\t\t\u4f60)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\tz\u00e0i<\/span> \n\t\t\t({are in} \u2192<\/span> [are now]<\/span> \n\t\t\t\u5728)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\tl\u01dax\u00edng<\/span>\n\t\t\t(travelling<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u65c5\u884c)<\/span>,\n\n\t\t\t\u00e9r<\/span> \n\t\t\t(and<\/span> \n\t\t\t\u800c)<\/span> \n\n\t\t\tY\u0113h\u00e9hu\u00e1<\/span> \n\t\t\t(Jehovah<\/span> \n\t\t\t\u8036\u548c\u534e \n\t\t\t\u8036\u548c\u83ef<\/span>)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\ty\u00eczh\u00ed<\/span>\n\t\t\t(y\u00ec\u00b7zh\u00ed\n\t\t\tone \u00b7 {being straight} \u2192<\/span> [all the while]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u4e00\u76f4)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tzh\u01d0y\u01d0n<\/span>\n\t\t\t(zh\u01d0\u00b7y\u01d0n\n\t\t\t{(is pointing with) finger \u2192<\/span> [is pointing]}<\/span> \u00b7 {is guiding}<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u6307\u5f15)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/strong>\n\n\t\t\tn\u01d0 de<\/span>\n\t\t\t((n\u01d0\n\t\t\tyou<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u4f60)\n\t\t\t(de\n\t\t\t\u2019s<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u7684)\n\t\t\t\u2192<\/span> [your]<\/span>)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\tf\u0101ngxi\u00e0ng<\/span>\n\t\t\t(f\u0101ng\u00b7xi\u00e0ng\n\t\t\tdirection \u00b7 {to be faced}<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u65b9\u5411)<\/span>.\n\n\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As can be seen above, this week\u2019s MEotW, \u201czh\u01d0y\u01d0n<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(zh\u01d0\u00b7y\u01d0n\n\t\t\t{(pointing with) finger \u2192<\/span> [pointing]}<\/span> \u00b7 guiding; leading<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u6307\u5f15)<\/span>\u201d,<\/i><\/i> is used in the Mandarin version of the above-mentioned video to correspond to the English word \u201cdirecting\u201d.<\/p>\n

I have often felt like a fly on the wall observing Jehovah\u2019s hand at work in the establishment and development of several Mandarin groups and congregations in my local area, and I have also seen much evidence that Jehovah has been directing things in the worldwide Mandarin field.<\/p>\n

Photocopies and Handwriting<\/h4>\n
\n\t\"Photocopied<\/p>\n

Photocopied and handwritten P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> material from 1997, based on the book The Secret of Family Happiness<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

PCs, Email, and Printers<\/h4>\n

A few years afterwards, in the early 2000s, I was serving where the need was great in the burgeoning Mandarin field in Calgary, where I was assigned by an unusually pragmatic and open-minded Chinese elder to develop similar P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span>-containing material for the local Mandarin field language learners\u2014the brothers in Calgary at the time felt far from the West Coast, and had decided that they would be more comfortable with a local supply of such material.<\/p>\n

Starting with a \u201cclean sheet of paper\u201d and using the personal computer technology that had become available and reasonably inexpensive at the time, I designed and started producing what was evidently the first material of the kind that eventually came to be commonly known as 3-line material. When the above-mentioned elder suggested adding English to the material that had up to this point only contained characters and P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span>,<\/i> I balked at first\u2014it was already going to be so much work just to enter the characters and add the P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span>!<\/i> However, I decided to make some prototype material that included English, and when one of the local brothers who was learning Mandarin saw a printout of it, his eyes seemed to pop out of his head, and he practically grabbed the printout out of my hands to get a closer look at it! That helped me to decide that the additional time and work needed for me to add the English translations would be a worthwhile investment that would greatly benefit the multiple people who would use the material to help them learn the Mandarin they need in the Mandarin field.<\/p>\n

Whereas the photocopied material mentioned above that was produced starting in the 1980s or 1990s was produced and distributed entirely in the paper realm, this new material was produced in the digital realm in word processing programs, and distributed as digital files (albeit ones still meant to be printed out on paper). Thus, I was able to email the files to whoever asked for them, after I emailed a few acquaintances I had in the nearby Canadian and American Mandarin fields about them.<\/p>\n

\n\t\"A<\/p>\n

A screenshot of early 3-line PDF material from 2001, based on the book Is There a Creator Who Cares About You?<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

And boy, did people start asking for them! Amazingly, people in the Mandarin field began telling their friends and fellow workers about the files, and I began to get emails from all around the world\u2014from every continent except Antarctica\u2014requesting them. I remember getting a bit emotional after getting an email from the UK requesting the files and telling me about the growing Chinese fields there\u2014it felt like finding out about a part of your family that before, you had no idea existed. I also remember feeling amazed and doing a double take after seeing that I had gotten an email from someone in the Chinese group in Budapest, Hungary, where the above-mentioned Sis. K\u00f6niger later served for a long time.<\/p>\n

For those who weren\u2019t around then, let me provide a bit more background information about the situation in the worldwide Mandarin field at the time, to help put this enthusiastic worldwide response in perspective. At the time, jw.org<\/a> was still many years away from coming online and becoming a place on the web where one could just go and view or download abundant material based on official publications and containing P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span>.<\/i> This was also before the iPhone came out in 2007, before Android was introduced in 2008, and before the iPad came out in 2010. What many people in the worldwide Mandarin field did have at that time, though, were personal computers (PCs and Macs), email, printers, and an organizationally existentially urgent situation caused by the frustratingly complex and difficult-to-learn-and-remember Chinese characters, which can take years, even decades, for a language learner to get functionally proficient with.<\/p>\n

Pinyin Material or Bust<\/h4>\n

Many of the Mandarin pregroups, groups, and congregations around the world at that time were quite new, with zero or very few publishers who were native Mandarin-speakers, and thus zero or very few people, especially brothers, who could function effectively in the Mandarin field with publications that contained only Chinese characters. So, they really, really needed material like that early 3-line material. Especially for many Mandarin pregroups and groups around the world at that time, getting the P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span>-containing material or not literally meant the difference between being able to conduct their Mandarin meetings or not being able to do so.<\/em><\/p>\n

And so, email requests came pouring in from around the world for the early 3-line unofficial material that I was producing, with only a few occasional helpers, in my little rented basement suite in a territory far from the home where I grew up. That was a hard time to go through\u2014the material, while no longer having to be painstakingly handwritten, still took a lot of time and effort to produce, week after week, and many of those around me did not understand or appreciate this highly unusual, pressure-filled, high-stakes situation that I found myself in. During that time, I learned and lived the Mandarin saying \u201cq\u00ed<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t({(if one) rides}<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u9a91\n\t\t\t\u9a0e<\/span>)<\/span>\u2010h\u01d4<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(tiger<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u864e)<\/span>\u2010n\u00e1n<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t({(it) is difficult}<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u96be\n\t\t\t\u96e3<\/span>)<\/span>\u2010xi\u00e0<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t({to get down}<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u4e0b)<\/span>\u201d.<\/i> However, like Sis. K\u00f6niger said, ultimately I could feel Jehovah directing things and helping me through it all.<\/p>\n

3lines.org and Official Pinyin Resources<\/h4>\n

After about two and a half years in Calgary, difficulty in finding secular work caused me to move back to the city I grew up in, where, on reflection, the project in Calgary that produced that early 3-line material would probably never have gotten going, due to the relatively complacent<\/a>\u2014and, perhaps, proud<\/a>\u2014acceptance of the status quo among those in the local Mandarin field, which by then had become relatively well-established. (Actually, on reflection, the development and distribution of unofficial and official P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span>-containing material for the Mandarin field seems, as a whole, like what in physical warfare is known as a flanking manoeuvre<\/a>, as opposed to a conventional frontal assault on the status quo of the world\u2019s Mandarin language situation that we Mandarin field language learners must deal with, i.e., just having everyone learn Mandarin the traditional hard way.) Eventually, I was invited to work with the international team of publishers that ran the 3lines.org<\/a> website, and that began producing 3-line material on an industrial scale.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, on the official side of things, the organization eventually started to produce official printed P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> versions of a few selected publications. These contained Simplified Chinese characters with P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> ruby text\u2014no English. (I suppose the official team[s] involved decided that it was not worthwhile to include English translations, due to the tremendous additional ongoing investments in time, effort, and contributed funds that would be required to produce them on an ongoing basis to the quality level required of official material, which after all is primarily spiritual<\/em> food, not language<\/em>-learning material.)<\/p>\n

Being printed on paper, though, these official P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> publications had to be physically printed and trucked\/moved by rail\/flown\/literally shipped\/etc. to the various Mandarin pregroups, groups, and congregations around the world that needed them. Generally these shipments would arrive in time for them to be used at the meetings in which they were scheduled to be used, but unfortunately, in spite of the best efforts of those involved, sometimes they would not\u2014that was just the challenging nature at the time of producing and distributing paper publications on an ongoing tight schedule.<\/p>\n

Over time, the organization got better at producing and delivering paper P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> publications on time, and it also eventually began to make digital P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span>-containing material widely available for viewing on the web and downloading. Thanks to reader SB, here is some information on when these official resources became available:<\/p>\n

\nOfficial Pinyin Watchtower started in 2002.
\nOther dates: jw.org with PDFs was 2010, WOL was 2012\u2026, WOL expanded to pre-2000 publications in 2018
\n(English in April, Trad. Chinese in August, Simplified in November)
\nand official pinyin added in 2019. Official pinyin then came
\nto the JW Library app in 2024.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These developments, along with the collective Brobdingnagian<\/a> efforts of others on the 3lines.org<\/a> team, helped a lot to provide numerous powerfully enabling resources for Mandarin field language learners. Meanwhile, there continued to be a lot of work for me to do in this regard as well.<\/p>\n

Mobile Devices, the Web, and Linguistics<\/h4>\n

In the early-2010s, with the post-PC<\/a> mobile revolution in full swing after the iPad was introduced and became \u201cthe most quickly adopted non-phone electronic product<\/a>\u201d ever, I found myself working on my iPhone\/iPad app Pinyin Typist<\/a>, and doing deep research on P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span>,<\/i> Chinese characters, and writing systems and linguistics in general. After all that I had gone through trying to learn characters and trying to help others to deal with the difficulties caused by characters, when I figured out from my research that actually, P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> is a good, workable writing system on its own<\/a> for Mandarin, and that characters are thus not a technical necessity,<\/em> but rather, just an unusually deeply rooted cultural tradition,<\/em> that was a mind-blowing moment for me.<\/p>\n

To share the potentially game-changing things I had learned with my fellow Mandarin field language learners, I eventually wrote and posted articles including \u201cP\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> Was Plan A<\/a>\u201d, which it seems many in the Mandarin field have read and benefitted from. Also, I eventually took the learnings from my experience in the Mandarin field and from my research into linguistics and into web and mobile technologies and began producing P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> Plus material. This new generation of mobile-first, speech-first material works well on the mobile devices so prevalent now among Mandarin field language learners. Also, rather than going along with the common practice in Satan\u2019s world of diverting<\/a> Mandarin learners into the deep, dark rabbit hole that is the Chinese characters, P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> Plus material focuses on helping Mandarin field language learners to learn to speak<\/strong> understandably and persuasively in Mandarin<\/em> so that they can reach the hearts of Mandarin-speaking people with Bible truth.\u20141 Corinthians 14:8\u201311<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After a few years, in the late 2010s, as the official P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span>-containing resources became established, the unofficial team of publishers running 3lines.org<\/a> was directed by the organization to fundamentally change their unofficial operation, resulting in that website scaling down drastically. However, even though I know the organization is aware of my activities\u2014outside of 3lines.org<\/a>\u2014producing materials for Mandarin field language learners, I have not received any similar direction from it. So, I have continued doing what I can to provide resources for Mandarin field language learners, including several P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> Plus resources<\/a> based on official publications (with deeply researched and extensive disclaimers<\/a> about them not<\/em> being spiritual food, but rather, Mandarin field language-learning resources),<\/em> and this MEotW blog that you are now reading.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s Like You Are Travelling and Jehovah Is Directing You\u201d<\/h4>\n

Looking back now in 2025, it is evident that in spite of temporarily limited technology and the ongoing traditional cultural inertia and disdainful dismissiveness of those brainwashed by a world that glamourizes and practically idolizes Chinese characters, abundant official (and unofficial) P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span>-containing resources have become widely and easily available to Mandarin field language learners around the world. Besides those already mentioned above, other significant P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span>-containing Mandarin field resources that many have found helpful include theocratic Mandarin courses<\/a>, such as that included in the official JW Language app, and also the various resources mentioned on the Referenced Theo. Expressions (RTE)<\/a> website, such as the phonetic WOL apps. The P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span>-containing resources that are available for Mandarin field language learners help them to be able to powerfully and effectively glorify Jehovah and save lives in the vast worldwide Mandarin field, without being egregiously obstructed by burdensome unnecessary difficulties imposed by the human traditions surrounding Chinese characters.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, in this regard, in the above-mentioned video (\u00a9 2016), starting at about the 4:35 mark, while describing her experience in the Mandarin field in Budapest, Hungary, Sis. K\u00f6niger can be seen using one of the old, bulky but beloved printed P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> New World Translation<\/i> Bibles:<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/p>\n

Also, starting at about the 4:43 mark, she and others can be seen using the old printed P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> Sing to Jehovah<\/i> songbook, which included musical notation:<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/p>\n

Yes, in view of what I have witnessed and experienced in the Mandarin field, I heartily agree with Sis. K\u00f6niger\u2019s conclusion that she states starting at about the above video\u2019s 5:10 mark, that ultimately, Jehovah directs the work of his faithful servants:<\/p>\n

\nIf you are in the full-time service, I think it\u2019s like you are travelling and Jehovah is directing you. So I don\u2019t worry. The responsibility is with Jehovah. I mean, we have to be faithful. That is our responsibility. But, what is happening is: Jehovah knows what he lets happen. It\u2019s OK. And I hope everybody who is young, they will do the same because they will miss something, because it\u2019s very satisfying. And working with Jehovah, you cannot compare it to anything else.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Specifically with regard to the development of material based on the organization\u2019s official Chinese publications, but that includes P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> or Zh\u00f9y\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(Zh\u00f9\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Annotating of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Zhuyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u6ce8\u97f3\n\t\t\t\u8a3b\/\u6ce8\u97f3<\/span>)<\/span> to help Mandarin field language learners get past the imposing Great Wall of Chinese characters, I saw how things started in the 1980s or 1990s. Somewhere around that time, Chinese congregation elders on the West Coast of North America began directing teams of publishers who would make enlarged photocopies of official Chinese publications, and then painstakingly handwrite P\u012bny\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(P\u012bn\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Piecing Together of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Pinyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u62fc\u97f3)<\/span> or Zh\u00f9y\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(Zh\u00f9\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Annotating of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Zhuyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u6ce8\u97f3\n\t\t\t\u8a3b\/\u6ce8\u97f3<\/span>)<\/span> ruby text<\/a> between the lines of characters. (In those days, many of the publishers involved were from Taiwan, where they were taught Zh\u00f9y\u012bn<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t(Zh\u00f9\u00b7y\u012bn\n\t\t\t{Annotating of} \u00b7 Sounds \u2192<\/span> [Zhuyin]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u6ce8\u97f3\n\t\t\t\u8a3b\/\u6ce8\u97f3<\/span>)<\/span> in school.) Photocopies would then be made of these handwritten \u201coriginals\u201d, for distribution to hungry Mandarin field language learners at the local meetings and to be sent via snail mail<\/a>, etc. to those in other places.<\/p>\n