Dutch start-up Chinglish offers a new bilingual portal that allows you to write emails in either English or Chinese and translate it automatically before sending.
According to Marius van Bergen, CEO of Chinglish.com, people need a Chinese Input Method Editor (IME) installed on their PC or a Chinese operating system to be able to write in Chinese – “By providing a Web-based IME embedded in Chinglish webmail, we have solved this problem”.
Marius van Bergen goes on to explain: “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 & English”.
“The service is unique, it is free, and it will remain free.”
Chinglish BV is a Dutch company that was founded with venture capital in 2004.
Chinglish hopes 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.
source Webuser