MailChimp translated to 16.5 languages
August 8, 2008 – 12:15 pmWe’ve been adding a lot of international support to MailChimp recently, so that our customers all over the globe can send campaigns in whatever language they choose.
In MailChimp v3.2, which is going live on August 11th, the entire opt-in process built into MailChimp will be available in 16.5 different languages:
By the way, that “16.5″ is not a typo. See, one of the “pseudo” languages we’ve added is Chimplish...
And unfortunately, Chimplish is not (yet) available in Google Translate. So in order to add Chimplish to our supported languages, our lead engineer Chad spent countless hours listening to archived chimpanzee recordings, re-runs of Wild Kingdom, and an old VHS tape of Every Which Way But Loose, set on infinite repeat.He ate nothing but bananas, nuts, and ants for weeks, and he slowly began to decode the simple yet elegantly sophisticated language of chimpanzees. It wasn’t easy, considering there are apparently at least 32 different dialects of Chimplish, each with their own type of slang (we went with East Coast Chimplish, because we felt West Coast Chimplish was too “stuck up”). There’s a picture of Chad above, just before he went insane. We last saw him scurrying out the door on all fours, and we haven’t seen him since.By the way, you don’t wanna know what Jesse, our API Engineer, did to learn LOLCODE.
Don’t see your language on the list? Post a comment below, and we’ll get it added.
8 Responses to “MailChimp translated to 16.5 languages”
In the language list of the video, portuguese is spelled “portugeuse”.
Please, correct that before the launch.
Have a great weekend.
By Tiago on Aug 8, 2008
I noticed that too while making the video, and have already posted that to our bug tracker (but to be totally honest, I thought it was supposed to be “Portugese”). Nice catch!
By Ben on Aug 8, 2008
Hi. And what about Czech? It would be great if you could add it to the list.
By Katerina on Aug 13, 2008
@Katerina - Adding translations is fairly easy, so we’ll go ahead and add that to our list. I think we’ve got about a half dozen more already on the way.
By Ben on Aug 14, 2008
Hello!
I need the romanian version…
By Dan on Aug 17, 2008
Hi monkeys,
Danish would be really helpful for us …
Oliver
By Oliver on Sep 17, 2008
…and Greek to us
By P. Loutraris on Oct 25, 2008
Greek has since been added to MailChimp. The current list of supported languages is:
1. English
2. Chinese
3. Danish
4. Dutch
5. Estonian
6. Finnish
7. French (France)
8. French (Canadian)
9. German
10. Greek
11. Hungarian
12. Hindi
13. Italian
14. Japanese
15. Korean
16. Norwegian
17. Portugese
18. Serbian (coming soon - early Nov 08)
19. Spanish (Mexico)
20. Spanish (Spain)
21. Swedish
22. Ukrainian
23. Polish
24. Romanian
25. Russian
By Ben on Oct 26, 2008