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Helping Chinese People in MexicoThe Watchtower—2005 | December 15
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In order to have more preachers to care for these Chinese-speaking people, a three-month course was established to teach Mexican Witnesses simple presentations in Mandarin Chinese. Altogether, 25 Witnesses took the course. At its completion, an official from the Mandarin-speaking community in Mexico City attended the graduation, showing the impact of the class on the Chinese-speaking populace. A local Chinese institution offered three of the students scholarships to go abroad to polish up their Chinese.
The language course involved practical training. After learning some very basic phrases, the students immediately began preaching in Chinese in the business district of Mexico City. The zealous students started 21 Bible studies. The brochure What Does God Require of Us? in Chinese with text rendered in the Roman alphabet, called Pinyin, was of great help.
How did the Witnesses who had just started to take the course in Chinese conduct Bible studies? At first, they could say only, “Qing Du [Please read]” and point to a paragraph and then to the question. After the person read and answered in Chinese, they would say, “Shei shei [Thank you]” and, “Hen Hao [Very good].”
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Helping Chinese People in MexicoThe Watchtower—2005 | December 15
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A Chinese language class in Mexico City
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