Chapter 18. Going Global: Connecting with People in Other Countries and Languages, with Google Translate and Google Multilingual Chat

In This Chapter:

  • A brief tour of social networks around the world

  • Free Google tools that can help you carry on a conversation with someone in a different language

  • How a multilingual Web can make the world better

Introduction

There has been a rapid growth of social networks around the world—for example, at the time of writing, The Economist reported that there are 400 million people on Facebook ...

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