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Google recently launched some translation bots for GTalk. When you type in a particular phrase or paragraph, the bot will translate it to the language you want, real time. To use the Google translation bot, add them to your GTalk, and here’s how you can add them as a contact in your GTalk.

The bot’s email address comes in the following format.

Format:

[from language]2[to language]@bot.talk.google.com

Sample:

en2zh@bot.talk.google.com, will translate english to chinese.

Supporting Language Pairs

Notice that Google uses two-letter language abbreviations here. Here are the supporting pairs of languages, for the moment.

• ar2en (Arabic to English)
• de2en (German to English)
• de2fr (German to French)
• el2en (Greek to English)
• en2ar (English to Arabic)
• en2de (English to German)
• en2el (English to Greek)
• en2es (English to Spanish)
• en2fr (English to French)
• en2it (English to Italian)
• en2ja (English to Japanese)
• en2ko (English to Korean)
• en2nl (English to Dutch)
• en2ru (English to Russian)
• en2zh (English to Chinese)
• es2en (Spanish to English)
• fr2de (French to German)
• fr2en (French to English)
• it2en (Italian to English)
• ja2en (Japanese to English)
• ko2en (Korean to English)
• nl2en (Dutch to English)
• ru2en (Russian to English)
• zh2en (Chinese to English)

Amusez-vous bien! And that means have fun in French.

via GoogleGTalk Blog