Chinglish.com recently launches a brand new release that provides the world's first webmail-integrated proofreading and translation service for speakers and learners of Chinese or English.
Chinglish was already providing the only webmail solution that allows users to switch and translate between simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, and English at the click of a mouse. The new Chinglish release supplements this high-tech infrastructure with a one of its kind human proofreading and translation service.
High-tech framework with Chinese and English proofreading and translation Because Chinese is becoming an increasingly important language in the realms of international business, study, and tourism, Chinglish.com integrated a user-friendly proofreading and translation service to its portal.
With this innovative feature, Chinglish.com continues to narrow the communication gap between China and the rest of the world. The service works by simply clicking the button "Proofread" after composing an email in Chinese or English. A proofread version of the message is delivered to the user within 24 hours. The new Chinglish release also comes with a human translation service.
Requests can be submitted to the system without forms to fill out. Translations are promptly delivered to the user's email account. This saves the trouble of communicating through a consultant or translation agency.
All Chinglish proofreaders and translators are native speakers of Chinese or English. To utilize these services, users simply open a jade account. Credits are automatically deducted from this account upon completion of each proofreading or translation request.
Unique set of Chinese-English communication tools
Chinglish.com is a Chinese-English communication website built around a proprietary bilingual email system. Besides the new professional proofreading and translation service, the unique features include free machine translations and bilingual email accounts, email addresses with names in Chinese characters, single sign-on forums, and a web-based input method editor. The latter allows users to write emails in Chinese outside of China.
The Chinglish mission is to make Chinese-English communication easy by providing a broad range of user-friendly online communication tools. (http://www.chinglish.com)
Gmail is very popular today, but as far as I know, not so many people use Gtalk, an IM product from Google, associated with Gmail.
Gtalk doesn't have video function so far, and not as popular as MSN, so many people enjoy Gmail, but still use MSN to contact with friends. However I do think Gtalk is better than MSN, at least its Voicemail function is super, which actually was released in August 2006, see More ways to connect and share with Google Talk.
Recently one of my friends told me people can use this function to practise their language. I think that is a good idea. You can send your friends voicemail instead of writing. There will be extensive practices. You also can send voicemail to yourself by registering another Gmail account.
Regarding Gmail, the following article is good to read :5 little-known Gmail features you may not yet know about.
For Chinese readers, you may click here to see a latest news about Gmail.
To use Gtalk voicemail, you have to register with Gmail first and then download Gtalk, both are for free. Click the following logos to do it respectively.
About the Global Language Monitor
The Global Language Monitor (GLM) documents, analyzes and tracks trends in language the world over, with a particular emphasis upon Global English. GLM is based in San Diego, California.
Worldwide print and electronic media have come to rely on The Global Language Monitor for its expert analysis on language trends and their subsequent impact on politics, culture and business, including the PQ Index/Indicator, analysis of media coverage of the 2004 Summer Olympics, the Republican National Convention, Workplace lingo, HollyWords, Telewords, the English Language Wordclock, among many others.
Cited by Worldwide Media
The GLM has been cited by CNN, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Associated Press, United Press International, Knight-Ridder, USAToday, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Charlotte Observer, Minneapolis Star Tribune, San Jose Mercury, New York Post, NPR, FoxNews, ABC, NBC, CBS, ChinaNews, The National Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, The BBC, the Australian Braodcasting Company, The Canadian Broadcasting Company, The Cape Town Argus, El Pais (Madrid), The Daily Mail (Scotland), The Hindustan Times, The Gulf News (Qatar), and various electronic and print media on six continents.
The GLM is supported by a worldwide assemblage of linguists, professional wordsmiths, and bibliophiles to help monitor the latest trends in the evolution (and demise) of language, word usage and word choices, and their impact on the various aspects of culture.
GLM Core Staff
The Global Language Monitor is supported by a global assemblage of linguists, professional wordsmiths, and bibliophiles to help monitor the latest trends in the evolution (and demise) of languages, word usage and word choices, and their impact on the various aspects of culture.
These are some of the people who help put it all together.
Paul JJ Payack -- Founder, President & The WordMan, based in Southern California -- and The Desert. For Curriculum Vitae, click Here.
Millie Lorenzo Payack -- Founding Member of the Board, Producer, former Marketing Director, yourDictionary.com.
[Source: http://www.languagemonitor.com]
Be careful, "Fuck" is not a new method to cook Chinese food. Basically it means "dry"(干, gan) in Chinese.
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Many online translation providers, such as Yahoo! Babel Fish, Babylon, etc., provide javascript codes for webmasters, which enable readers to read a webpage in other languages other than the default one in the webpage.
Now Google's translate gadget is avaible. Adding the Translate gadget to your webpage offers your readers instant access to automatic translations of that page. It's quick and easy. First you select the language of your webpage, then copy and past the HTML code generated by Google on your webpage(website).
If you are interested, please visit Google's official page to take your code: http://translate.google.com/translate_tools?hl=en
Additional information: Speaking in more languages
If you have what problem
I answer this hard nut to crack for you
The thought which uses me answers your question
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1. Money is not everything. There‘s Mastercard & Visa.
2. One should love animals. They are so tasty.
3. Love the neighbor. But don‘t get caught.
4. Behind every successful man, there is a woman. And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
5. Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.
6. The wise never marry, And when they marry they become otherwise.
7. Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.
8. Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.
9. Love is photogenic. It needs darkness to develop.
10. Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.
11. "Your future depends on your dreams." So go to sleep.
12. There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.
13. "Hard work never kills anybody." But why take the risk?
14. "Work fascinates me." I can look at it for hours!
15. God made relatives; Thank God we can choose our friends.
16. When two‘s company, three‘s the result!
17. A dress is like a barbed fence. It protects the premises without restricting the view.
18.The more you learn, the more you know, The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.
An online tool has tipped up that allows Arabic speakers to write Arabic using the English alphabet.
Language Analytics LLC, said its Yamli.com enables Arabic speakers to more easily access the Interweb.
The outfit has initially delivered two web-based tools. Both allow users to type phonetic Arabic using the English-language keyboard. Yamli Search enables Arabic searching with Google. Yamli Editor allows users to write Arabic text that can be copied into any electronic document.
It seems that although Arabic keyboards are available, most Arabic-speaking surfers use an English keyboard. They often resort to spelling Arabic words out phonetically using English characters. Yamli converts these transliterations into into Arabic words.
Language Analytics' Habib Haddad said, like millions of users, "I could easily express my Arabic words using English letters, but I had difficulty typing them in Arabic. "
Co-founder Imad Jureidini reckons, "the Arabic web will truly take off when people can do two things easily: find and write Arabic content. While there are many applications for our technology, we sought to address these two fundamental needs immediately." [Source: INQUIRER]
Go to Yamli.com
Interest in language study at American colleges and universities has increased broadly and significantly since 2002, according to a comprehensive new survey, Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education, Fall 2006, released today by the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) and funded by the United States Department of Education. The survey found significant increases in enrollments in nearly all of the most popular languages studied on American college campuses. Language enrollments on United States campuses are at their highest since the 1960 MLA survey.
Interest in language study has been increasing steadily since 1998. While the study of the most popular languages, Spanish, French, and German, continues to grow and together represents more than 70% of language enrollments, their dominance is slowly decreasing in the face of growing interest in languages such as Arabic (up 127%), Chinese (up 51%), and Korean (up 37%). Enrollments in American Sign Language increased nearly 30% from 2002, making it the fourth most studied language on college campuses, slightly ahead of Italian.
The more than doubling of Arabic enrollments moved the Middle Eastern language onto the top 10 most studied list for the first time. The number of institutions of higher learning offering Arabic has nearly doubled since the last survey, from 264 in 2002 to 466 Arabic programs offered in 2006.
“This significant growth in language study, and the diversity of languages being studied, is very good news for education in the United States,” said Rosemary G. Feal, executive director of the MLA. “Students increasingly see their futures taking place in a multilingual world, and they want language preparation to help them function in that world. Students recognize that having the ability to function across cultures and languages is an enormous advantage.”
The new MLA survey includes data from 2,795 colleges and universities measuring enrollments in the study of 219 languages other than English, from the most popular, including Spanish, French and German, to less commonly studied languages such as Navajo, Farsi, and Welsh.
If you are interested, see the full report: Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education, Fall 2006
Founded in 1883, the Modern Language Association of America provides opportunities for its members to share their scholarly findings and teaching experiences with colleagues and to discuss trends in the academy. MLA members host an annual convention and other meetings, work with related organizations, and sustain one of the finest publishing programs in the humanities. For over a hundred years, members have worked to strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature.
The MLA at a Glance
In Chinese, "公"(pinyin-Gong) has different meanings, e.g. 公司(gongsi-business)，公众(gongzhong-public) and 公母(gongmu-male and female). When compared with "Individual Service"(个人业务) above, it's easier to understand the "To Male Service" should be "To Business Service" instead.
It's more funny to translate the English translation back to Chinese: 对男人的服务(Service only for men). This makes people think about some special things between men and women.
A Philippine couple visited Beijing recently and found Chinglish anywhere. One place they visited is Ming Dynasty Tombs, where an explanatory sign in bilingual made him to scratch his head.
The Chinese is so simple and meaningful, but the translation is unreadable.
Today most people are using Google to search on the Internet, but still some people would like to use AltaVista as their preferred search engine. Based in Sunnyvale, Calif., AltaVista has a rich history of innovation embodied in 61 search-related patents.
According to AltaVista, they are the first-ever multi-lingual search capability on the Internet and the first search technology to support Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. "We are proud of Babel Fish, the Web's first Internet machine translation service that can translate words, phrases or entire Web sites to and from English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Russian."
In February 2003, AltaVista was bought by Overture Services, Inc. In October 2003, Overture itself was taken over by Yahoo!. In Aug. 2004, shortly after Yahoo!’s acquisition, the AltaVista site started using the Yahoo! Search technology. [Source: Wikipedia-AltaVista]
They also provide easy-to-use js codes for webmasters to add translation capability on their own websites.
To take Babel Fish embedded codes, click here.
To try Babel Fish, click on the picture below.
More and more people go to China for study or business. Here are some Chinglish signs collected by an Irish guy in Hangzhou.
小心摔倒=Fall down carefully?
It may be better to say "Make the Special Olympics Successful, Build Jing'an international" or "Make a successful Special Olympics, Build an international Jing'an".
The Chinese here(外温) indicates the temperature outside, but not Ext.
Please go upstaires and continue your visit.
This is a security notice in a hotel, a typical Chinglish, difficult to read.
[No need to say more for a strong and brave life]. That's so cool.
Colleen Ross was covering the Women's World Cup of soccer for CBC Radio in China. She just published her new article "Lost in translation- colourful Chinglish words enter global English " on CBC website.
