XIHA Life while not having the best interface is a site with a unique online community. You can chat with people anywhere in the world and the system will auto-translate the chat session in your native language. My wife is Japanese and my Japanese is horrible and in our initial experiements between her and I to test the system it works remarkably well. Like all translation systems it is not perfect but at least it is pretty close. The service is free and while they have a variety of things to do on the site like web based games, the chat function is what we have been using.
This video was shot in a very dark night club in Vegas so please excuse the poor lighting.
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