Chinglish.com Releases Chinese-English E-mail Portal at Amsterdam-Beijing Rally 2006

BEIJING, Aug. 7, 2006 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- On August 11, the very day around 80 classic cars to arrive in Beijing from Amsterdam after a marathon ride of 17,500 kilometers, Chinglish BV, the official sponsor of the event, will launch a new bilingual e-mail program. By allowing users to read and write Chinese online anywhere in the world and by translating e-mail messages from English to Chinese and vice versa, Chinglish addresses the needs of millions of businesspeople and students in search of solutions to overcome the communication barrier separating China and the West. Chinglish supports both simplified and traditional Chinese by input methods including alphabet, pinyin and zhuyin fuhao. "It is the first internet portal offering translation and an array of language tools embedded within a web-mail application," says Tang Qian, General Manager of Chinglish PRC.

The Chinglish-method

The Chinglish.com website is based on the Chinglish format, i.e. Chinese and English side-by-side. In China, this format has been steadily spreading via books and magazines. However, paper does not match the interactive solutions offered by the internet. Chinglish.com has picked up the gauntlet in solving the technical difficulties accompanying a dual Chinese-English online approach. After two years of research, Chinglish.com is now ready to launch a beta version of its bilingual portal.

Representatives of the Beijing Olympic Committee 2008, also an official sponsor of ABR 2006, will attend the finishing ceremonies of the rally in Beijing. Marius van Bergen, founder and CEO of Chinglish.com, states that he has identified the 2008 Olympics in Beijing as a milestone in the promotion of the Chinglish concept and proposition: "The rally bridged the distance between China and the West by car. Chinglish.com continues where the rally stops and goes further, not with cars, but with the vehicle of language. After all, in terms of language, 50% of the world economy in 2010 will be accounted for by Chinese and English."

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 communication between China and the western world by creating a virtual internet community in which Chinese and English coexist and enrich each other in a single environment. The Company intends to create the leading bilingual linguistic portal in China.