Hello everyone.
I have some wonderful news to share with you.
It is now possible for us to spread the good news that we share in these English videos to a much wider audience. Using some newly available software services, we can publish all our existing videos, as well as all new ones, into over two dozen languages. Here’s the list.
Arabic Bengali Chinese Czech Danish
Dutch Finnish French German Hebrew
Hindi Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean
Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian
Slovak Spanish Swedish Tagalog Thai
Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese
That list is likely to grow soon.
To be clear, I’m not talking about translated subtitles. What I’m talking about is taking my own voice and having me speak in each of these languages. Just to show you how that works, I’ll end this video with a sampling of what that will look like and sound like. So please watch to the end.
Imagine being able to expose the truth about JW.org as well as other exploitive religions with people who don’t have access to the information that we take for granted in the English-speaking world. Imagine also being able to spread the real message of the Good News, the real hope being held out to those who want to worship our heavenly Father in Spirit and Truth. This is the voice that this new technology gives to us.
Of course, it isn’t free, but it is affordable, and so it gives everyone a chance to participate in this work.
To explain the cost, our goal is to eventually translate all our videos into each of these languages. We will start in the new year to launch YouTube channels for each language. We will try to publish a new video every week in each language. Imagine releasing about 28 language videos every week for the full year. That will come to close to 1,500 videos. Now costs vary based on length of the video, but our current best estimate is that it will cost $20 US dollars per video on average, so that comes to about $30,000 a year. That may seem like a lot of money, but I just read that the Organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses spent half a billion dollars in 2023 on construction and renovation projects to maintain their real estate empire. Well, we are not concerned about real estate, but rather with declaring the good news and helping those sincere people who are seeking to worship our heavenly Father in spirit and truth to find their way to him, to break free from the snare of religion.
If you would like to help us to get the job done, I’ll put a support link at the end of the video.
But there is another way in which some of you can help to assist us and that is with the translation editing. If you speak any of the languages on this list, you may be able to help us by editing the computer translations.
Arabic Bengali Chinese Czech Danish
Dutch Finnish French German Hebrew
Hindi Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean
Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian
Slovak Spanish Swedish Tagalog Thai
Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese
Computers do an incredible job of translation, but it is never perfect. So, before we compile and publish any video, we’d like to make sure it is accurately conveying the message. If you would like to help, please contact me. I’ll put my contact information at the end of this video. I’ll close now with a quote from Revelation 22:21, expressed to you in just some of the languages we’ll be publishing in.
English: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Bulgarian: Благодатта на Господа Исуса Христа да бъде със светиите. Амин.
Chinese: 愿 主 耶 稣 的 恩 惠 常 与 众 圣 徒 同 在 。 阿 们！
Dutch : De genade van onzen Heere Jezus Christus zij met u allen. Amen.
French: Que la grâce de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ soit avec vous tous, Amen!
German: Die Gnade unsers HERRN Jesu Christi sei mit euch allen!
Greek: Ἡ χάρις τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν. Ἀμήν
Hungarian: A mi Urunk Jézus Krisztusnak kegyelme [legyen] mindnyájan ti veletek. Ámen.
Italian: La grazia del Signor Gesù Cristo sia con tutti voi. Amen.
Korean: 주 예수의 은혜가 모든 자들에게 있을지어다 ! 아멘
Romanian: Harul Domnului Isus Hristos să fie cu voi cu toţi! Amin
Russian: Благодать Господа нашего Иисуса Христа со всеми вами. Аминь.
Ukrainian: Благодать Господа нашого Ісуса Христа з усіма вами. Амінь.
Vietnamese: Nguyền xin ân điển của Ðức Chúa Jêsus ở với mọi người!