Dear Visitor,

If you speak everyday English but find complex material hard to be clear about, this could be the most important website you will ever visit…

… English is THE language for science, technology, business and even entertainment, more than 2/3 of everything in the internet is written in English.

… Although only 500 million people use it as a first language, probably more than 2,000 million have a limited knowledge of English that is enough to be clear about everyday things, but not enough to get knowledge about science and technology like books, scientific papers, reports and so on...

… The perfect answer to this problem is to learn to speak English well but this is expensive, time-consuming, requires a lot of effort and also dedication over long periods of time.

… Another way is to convert automatically between languages but this is very hard and has been shown to be useless in current systems except in the shortest simplest groups of words, but certainly not for complex material; while human translation is slow and very expensive!

… Moreover, if a person with limited knowledge of English looks up a word using “wikipedia” or “Encyclopedia Britannica” it does not help because the explanation will be produced using the available 100,000 words of English! so he/she will be unable to be clear about the answer in any case.

Our service is useful to those whose mother tongue is not English and who have a limited number of words they are familiar with, by converting standard English into a simple form while keeping the substance mostly unchanged. This service is able to process written material (written with +100,000 words) into a form with only 1,000 words, where scientific words (+30,000 words) are explained in footnotes using Basic English. Any file in PDF/TXT/DOC/HTML form can be uploaded, converted and saved in the form of a HTML file using only 1,000 basic words. Once the file is converted, usually within a couple of minutes, a message is sent to the user by email providing him with an internet link to the converted material. The system is obviously also of use to those who are learning English, by giving details of the sense of words in terms of simple words.

These 1,000 basic words exist in all languages and so, if you are clear about only those, you can read ANY document however complex!

"Pro” members can have a personal list of words, so the service adapts to the level of knowledge of each person, process up to 20 files (of up to 10,000 words/10MB in size) each day, and also keep up to 100MB of their material on our system. For the “Pro” service our initial charge will be $7.95. You will then be charged $7.95 per month.

"Premium” members can have a personal list of words, so the service adapts to the level of knowledge of each person, process an unlimited number of files (of up to 25,000 words/50MB in size) each day, and also keep up to 200MB of their material on our system. For the “Premium” service our initial charge will be $16.00. You will then be charged $16.00 per month.

This work is the result of the efforts made by one of our groups working on Artificial Intelligence at The Goodwill Company Limited, a business with experts in science and technology based in England. This information was written in Basic English.

If you have any questions, please contact us: contact@simplish.org