Even those who flunked their foreign language classes in high school can communicate with surfers from around the globe, thanks to a new service from Multicity.com. The site's chat technology instantly translates incoming text messages into one of 18 languages, including, English, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Dutch.

Multicity also offers a free chat tool, In-the-Box, which allows you to send active chatrooms to friends via E-mail; recipients can communicate with you from their in-box and forward the chatroom to other friends.

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