Talk to Me Cloud

How is your Japanese? Are you still learning Japanese or do you not care?

If you are learning so that you can enjoy your anime and video games on a whole new level, and appreciate new tools that help keep the learning fresh, tune in as I will be reviewing my favorite tools to help keep your vocabulary growing.

My new favorite toy is an Android Application called "Talk to Me Cloud". While not intended to help you learn a language properly as you would in a classroom setting. It is awesome for helping you learn useful phrases and my favorite use is for those really bad anime subtitles that make you go.. HHUUUUH?!? If it's a key moment in the plot and the subtitles of your anime are on crack, just hold your phone up to the speaker and let the anime rip. 7 out of 10 times I estimate you will get a proper translation. Pretty dang sweet.

The application uses a cloud based speech to speech translating program and supports over 50 languages at the time of this write up. It's got a ways to go, but is killer and beats anything we had in this part of the toolkit to date. Not only great for anime, but if you wanted to learn how to say a few simple phrases in a bunch of languages, this would be a fun way to do it... Oh, and don't bother saying bad words to the cloud, it won't hear you... Hunt it down in the Android Market by searching for "Talk to Me Cloud" it's free!