ChinesePod users understand that learning Chinese is a fun and rewarding challenge. But what if you need to speak Chinese, like now? And you haven’t learned it at all yet? And the taxi driver is waiting for you to tell him where to go, in Chinese?

While in Amsterdam, co-founder and CEO Hank ran into some people who created a very interesting high-tech solution to that problem. It’s called XS2China. You download the app, and your mobile device does the talking for you. Check out this video:

Now, we at Praxis still think that learning the language is the best way to go, but in certain situations, XS2China’s solution is very attractive. It knows place names, common phrases, and even pickup lines. (It’s kind of scary to imagine that your mobile device could get you a date… and then maybe even do all the talking for you on the date as well??)

Anyway, we’re happy to showcase cool language solutions in this digital mobile world. If you’ve got more, please share them.