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October 31, 2006
Dutch Startup With Online English Chinese Translations
Dutch entrepreneur, Marius van Bergen, has launched Chinglish to provide machine translation of Chinese and English, reports Reuters.
The founder uses the word Chinglish not in the same way that we use words like Genglish or Spanglish to signify speech that combines words from German and English or Spanish and English, rather he says he is trying to link English and Chinese linguistically in the site name.
If there is real money to be made over the long term in having a popular web site around translation, then we think that the founder is probably onto a good thing.
We notice a distinct uptick in friends and family learning Chinese because they find it helps at work. And courses in Zurich for example, teach Chinese courses in English even if it is a mainly German-speaking group of students.
And if the translations are as good as press reports suggest, then it will also likely be popular with Chinese users too.
Its PR says it is venture-backed but we don't have more information than that to hand.
Read - Lost in translation: Chinglish.com steps into fray (reuters)
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