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MailChimp translated to 16.5 languages

August 8th, 2008 | by Ben

We’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...chad-learning-chimplish1.jpgAnd 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.

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18 Comments

    • Tiago says:

      In the language list of the video, portuguese is spelled “portugeuse”.

      Please, correct that before the launch.

      Have a great weekend.

    • Ben says:

      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!

    • Katerina says:

      Hi. And what about Czech? It would be great if you could add it to the list.

    • Ben says:

      @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.

    • Dan says:

      Hello!
      I need the romanian version…

    • Oliver says:

      Hi monkeys,

      Danish would be really helpful for us …

      Oliver

    • P. Loutraris says:

      …and Greek to us

    • Ben says:

      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

    • Ben says:

      As of January 19th 2009, the list of supported languages will be:

      English
      Chinese
      Czech
      Danish
      Dutch
      Estonian
      Finnish
      French (France)
      French (Canada)
      German
      Greek
      Hindi
      Hungarian
      Italian
      Japanese
      Korean
      Norwegian
      Polish
      Portuguese
      Romanian
      Russian
      Serbian
      Spanish (Mexico)
      Spanish (Span)
      Swedish
      Turkish
      Ukrainian

      —– just for fun————-

      Chimplish
      Redneck
      Jive
      Elmer Fudd
      Swedish Chef
      Pig Latin
      Hacker

    • Balazs says:

      Ben, can I update the Hungarian translation? It’s not exactly perfect now… (Google Translate for Hungarian is, shall we say, atrocious…)

      • Ben says:

        Yes, absolutely. FTR, we don’t use Google Translate for our translations (we only use that in some of the quick “translate” merge tags). We actually hire a translation service that purports to use humans (the internet-savvy-ness of those humans is questionable). :-) So we’d love your help. Can you post something over in the “internationals” group: http://jungle.mailchimp.com/group/internationalchimps

    • Balazs says:

      Thanks Ben, will do!

      • Ben says:

        I also gave Raul your email address. He may contact you sometime in the next day or so (he’s in customer svc, so is extremely busy w/chats, emails). But he’ll be in touch.

    • martin says:

      Hello Ben, what about Slovak language? We can help with that. And one more thing. What about message from server – they aren’t translated. Do you have any solution?

    • Martin 2 says:

      And what about Bulgarian language..

    • Alessandra says:

      Modifying a form to put traslated labels results in some incorrect characters when creating the sign up form embed code. Is there a problem with character sets? à becomes à , for example.

    • Andreas says:

      Hey, guys, I have one problem with editing my forms: I need the “unsubscribe success mail” and the “goodbye mail” in three different languages (german, English and French). I would like to edit them seperately. How can I do this with a free account? (can I?)

      Thanks!
      Andreas

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