World's First Email With Address in Chinese Characters: Technical Breakthrough by Chinglish.Com

World's First Email With Address in Chinese Characters: Technical Breakthrough by Chinglish.Com

May 10, 2007

Chinglish.com Gives Chinese Identity and Chinese Language
Back to Chinese People, Opening up Plethora of
Possibilities in Communication and Exchange

    CULEMBORG, Netherlands, May 10 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
Chinglish.com is introducing the world's first email system
allowing users to address recipients with Chinese characters
or a combination of characters and letters. The application
works between all Chinglish account holders. To enable
users to continue receiving emails from other email
providers, Chinglish has introduced bilingual account
management. Users can receive emails addressed to
[e-mail] from any
Chinglish account. At the same time the user can keep
receiving emails addressed to
[e-mail] sent from third
party email providers. 

    Chinglish email innovation: unparalleled opportunities

    Email being the number one application on internet,
this offers unprecedented opportunities for China's
exploding number of netizens, the 40 million foreigners
studying Chinese, and cross-cultural communication in
general. Marius van Bergen, Chinglish CEO, says: "Most
non-Chinese businessmen in China know from experience how
important it is to have a Chinese name. That is why they
have business cards with their Chinese name on the reverse
side. To them, Chinglish email offers unparalleled
opportunities in the trust-building process and in showing
commitment to China and its culture."

    Traditional email in China

    The very first email message from China was sent in
1986 but it took another decade for internet to become
available to the Chinese public. Internet being a Western
invention, email protocol was originally developed for the
alphabet. A person in China called xiaowang in pinyin
transcription could not register
xiaowang_written_in_Chinese_characters@email provider but
had to use xiaowang_written_in_Roman_letters@email provider
instead. Until today, China's 150 million internet users
could not use their own name in their own language to email
with. 

    About Chinglish.com

    Chinglish.com develops bilingual Chinese-English email.
Chinese and non-Chinese speakers can communicate with
automated translation tools that translate from Chinese to
English and vice-versa. Chinglish.com is the only email
system providing a web-based Chinese input method editor
(IME). This enables any user outside of China to email in
Chinese from computers that cannot switch from alphabet to
characters for lack of a Chinese IME or operating system.
The Chinglish mission is to bridge the communication gap
between China and the rest of the world, to which end it
also developed a unique bilingual forum.


    For more information, please contact:

    Nienke Harmsen
    PR Officer
    Chinglish BV
    Tel:   [phone]
    Email: [e-mail]
    Web:   http://www.chinglish.com