[goldstategop]

Machine Translation used to be bad - annoyingly bad. Now for every day conversation, its 90% accurate. Not as good as a human translator for sensitive situations but it will get the job done. The main problem with MT is it still cannot handle slang well and the peculiarities of human speech. With that limitation kept in mind, in the next decade you could chat with foreign friends without feeling like you're both at the famous Tower Of Babble.

[drbuzzard]

This is cool and all, but I don’t actually have any friends that don’t speak english. I don’t even imagine how I’d make such a friend. Certainly this could be great for traveling.

[struggle]

Good luck with it understanding Japanese ambiguity.

[ElkGroveDan]

Just like Monty Python's Hungarian Phrasebook. this could be lots of fun for programmers.

"My Hovercraft is full of eels!"

[wastedyears]

Probably wouldn’t be able to translate Brooklyn slang and accent into real Italian, for example.

(thankfully I don’t speak like that)

[YourAdHere]

Bro was on! Didn’t trip. But the folks was freaking man. And the pilots was laid to the bone, home. So blood hammered out and jammed it. Tightened that bad boy down the runway like a mother. Golly!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

“All Your Base Are Belong To Us.”