Longing to debate the finer points of Foosball in any language? Find that your mouth is covered with duct tape, but your fingers are free?

You’ve probably already got a standard procedure for expressing yourself online when the guy on the other end speaks only Hungarian, Japanese, Catalan, or some other language you didn’t sign up for in school. But now there’s a better way…

Thanks to ImTranslator, you’re instantly brilliant and in charge, the same way very young Parisian children appear to be geniuses because they can command a conversation in French.

You get text translations for up to 1640 language combinations, plus these flashy features:

-virtual keyboard:

-spell checker for eight languages (some usual suspects, and some short-list surprises)

-Russian decoder (sounds like the makings of a ring or a movie, but think alphabets)

Installing ImTranslator was a breeze.  It shows up to the left of the location bar:

When you want to translate text, just hit the icon and this window opens up:

Hit the megaphone and you’ll hear it out loud in English or hear it out loud in Portuguese.

ImTranslator is big fun. Try it out, tell your friends off, or woo the ladies in any language. Just make sure polyglot isn’t all you’ve got …

Post from Elise Allen, who speaks your language, as of today. See all posts by Elise Allen.