Writing in Chinese online, sending it out in English, and vice versa, bridges
the language barrier between China and the West
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, Oct. 31 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Chinglish.com
is live. It is the world's first truly bilingual Chinese-English internet
portal with specialized language tools. Messages can be written and
translated online in Chinese or English.
Bilingual webmail
Chinglish.com is the world's first bilingual e-mail developed to meet the
market demands of increased communication between Chinese and English
speaking communities. One of the flagship features is a web-based Chinese
Input Method Editor (IME) that provides users the ability to write e-mail in
Chinese online. With its innovative solution, Chinglish addresses the needs
of millions of international businesspeople, foreigners studying Chinese,
Chinese students studying abroad, and Chinese tourists travelling to the
West. Previously, these users encountered situations where computers were
not equipped with a Chinese IME or not configured properly.
Language tools
Chinglish bilingual e-mail also boasts a variety of other language tools,
most notably automated translation. Messages can be translated in real-time
from Chinese to English and vice versa. By offering translation and Chinese
IME within a webmail application, Chinglish.com overcomes the communication
barrier separating China and the West.
Chinese and English: the major languages of the future
Marius van Bergen, CEO of Chinglish.com explains: "Currently 300 million
Chinese people are learning English and 30 million non-Chinese speakers are
studying Chinese. These numbers will continue to grow and Chinglish.com sees
its mission in facilitating communication between speakers of Chinese and
English. I would even venture to say that Chinglish.com has a unifying role
to play within the Chinese community itself, because it supports simplified
Chinese, which is used in the People's Republic of China and Singapore, and
traditional Chinese, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong. As far as we are
concerned, international organizations will only have two official languages
of work in the future: Chinese and English. Our portal can save billions of
dollars in translation and interpretation costs."
About Chinglish
Chinglish BV is a Dutch company that was founded with venture capital in
2004 by Marius van Bergen. Chinglish's mission is to promote linguistic and
cultural exchange between China and the West by creating a virtual internet
community in which Chinese and English coexist and enrich each other.
