If anyone in olpc-land is doing remote collaboration in various languages (or speaking english only but may interact with Euro g1g1 folks?), there's a nice feature available with inline Gmail chat, where you can set up a live chat room and invite a Google translation bot, or several for that matter, who can then interpret between various languages.<br>
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<a href="http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2008/06/more-translation-bots.html">http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2008/06/more-translation-bots.html</a><br><br>There's definite limitations to computer translation, but Google does pretty well, and if you try to think like a news reporter with a very limited vocabulary (i.e. neutral, minimum of slang, jargon, idiom, simple, short, brief), then it can help. If you have any questions feel free to email me.<br>
<br>It would be nice if we could set up an email bot somehow; Europeans are wonderfully adept at language, but not *everyone* knows English and I believe there's about 25 eu member languages. Too bad Google doesn't machine translate english and gaelic! (gaelic is an official eu language, thank you.) Or we could all follow William Shatner's lead as seen in the early b/w film Incubus, and could all learn Esperanto . . . <br>