While reading mobilecrunch today I go through a tech story. Google says it’s working on software for smartphone that would automatically translate foreign languages into your native tongue.  According to Google if all goes according to timeline, then the software will be ready in a “couple” of years and, But Google didn’t mention the date for its publically available for public consumption.

You already know that Google already has a translation software suite, and it’s totally free. It’s not entirely machine translation, though, which is generally rubbish, since people can help contribute with certain words and phrases that might not mean what the literal definition suggests.

Like, I just used the word “rubbish” to mean that machine translation is not always very accurate, not that it’s refuse.

All part of Google’s plan to ensure that humanity is fully dependent on its services, I suppose.

Here’s a tip: learn Spanish or French or Italian in high school, and you can pretty easily pick up any other romance language with not too much effort. Spanish and Italian and Portuguese are pretty much “mods,” to use a PC game word, of Latin, so it all works out.

Cheers!!