For many of us who have family, friends, and business contacts abroad, we communicate with most of them through the web on instant messengers. Instant messaging or chatting is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to communicate with people on the web and it is very useful especially if you need to send important information immediately. There are many instant messaging applications available for download from the internet for free and most of them have almost the same features.

Chatting is an easy thing to learn and do; however, it has its own limitations. You need to know how to operate a computer with an internet connection in order to chat and you must know how to communicate with the person you are chatting with. What if you and your contacts do not speak the same language or are not proficient enough to communicate efficiently in the same language? You need the help of a language translator but it may take you some time to exchange messages faster right?

MeGlobe is a web-based chat application that allows its users to send instant messages with real time language translation! It is a free web application that integrates instant messaging with real time translation and simply allows you to translate to and from fifteen different languages as you chat with your friends from various countries!

MeGlobe was created with the concept to weaken language barriers from online communication. The application lets you type in your message in your own language yet it will send a translated version in real time, in the language of the person whom you are chatting with! It’s a great tool since you will not have a hard time getting “lost in translation”.

This software is open to let its users edit translations which may be a bit off from the original context. Contributions by the users help MeGlobe become a better language translator and help diminish language borders.

The languages supported by MeGlobe include Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Russian, Swedish and a lot more! It is also looking forward to include more languages in order to help more people communicate with each other effectively.

It’s users can also import their contacts from their AIM, Yahoo, and MSN accounts. The application is compatible with Internet Explorer 5.x-7.x, FireFox, Opera 9.x, and Safari browsers for Windows users; Safari and Firefox 2 and 3 for Mac users; and Sea Monkey and Firefox for BSD, Linux, and other users.

So whenever you would want to have hassle-free, no language barrier communication with your friends from different parts of the world check out MeGlobe and have an interesting experience.

Related: Read this review about several free online language translators.

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