In a meeting at Google in 2004, the discussion turned to an e-mail message the company had received from a fan in South Korea. Sergey Brin, a Google founder, ran the message through an automatic ...

A hot potato: A desktop-native Google Translate app doesn't exist, but searching for one might bring up results from free software websites. Apps masquerading as Google Translate and several other ...

One hesitation I hear time and time again when I talk to people about traveling is, “But I don’t speak the language.” To be sure, a language barrier can be a bit of a problem when traveling, and not ...

Learning a new language is not as difficult today as it was, say, five to 10 years ago. There are dedicated language learning apps for almost every language, for both Android and iOS. Of course, some ...