Could Google provide you with the perfect alibi to skip French or Spanish language class next time? That might certainly be the case in a few years’ time, as the search engine giant is busy working on speech-to-speech translation. So when everything is setup honky dory, you’ll probably be able to verbally chat with your friend over the phone, despite the both of you using different languages.

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