Google Talk About: An innovative service from GOOGLE for chatting in foreign languages

Do you wish to chat with your friends in Japanese, but are sick of changing the keyboard layout or copy pasting from Japanese Editors?
Are you messed up with Japanese encoding which makes the text into MOJIBAKE?

If you are facing the same problems, please see the link below:
http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2007/12/merry-christmas-god-jul-and.html
http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2008/06/more-translation-bots.html

For people who want to chat in Japanese, follow the steps given below:

1. Add en2ja@bot.talk.google.com to your gtalk/ gmail from "Add Contact"
2. You will see an entry in your friends list by name - "en2ja"
3. Start chatting with this FRIEND :)

P.S: Do not use shortened words like - "How r u?" Use full words like - How are you?

You will be surprised to see the response !! :)

Special attention:
As this is machine translation and that too at its initial stages, this is in quite a preliminary stage still.
You can chat in other languages as well.
Please see the above mentioned links for the details.