Fun with Babbler

Last weekend, I went to Phreake Isle and picked up a copy of Max Case's translation program, Babbler3. It works like a charm, and I was able to converse in several different languages (French, german, spanish and portuguese) with a number of people in SL, which was an absolute blast. One of the folks I met was a french-speaking artist from Algeria, who offered to show me his art gallery. It was a fun visit, and particularly nice because without Babbler I wouldn't have been able to meet and converse with him. There are so many different applications for this in education that it simply boggles the mind. Miraculously, I have NOT make any dumb mistakes with Babbler so far--in fact, I was having so much fun with it that I actually hung around Phreake Isle for a while giving people a hand when they ran into trouble figuring out how to attach the HUD to themselves in order to use the translator.