Skype is into real time translation and Google translate is getting better by the day, now able to translate photos of Japanese and Korean text into English.
I know it's still far from perfect but I see massive leaps forward in the next two or three years, probably meaning our smartphones will do real time translation of our conversations from and to pretty much any language.
Star trek's universal translator is almost with us, and that will spell the end of the expat TEFLer.
I'm old, fat and ugly so I'll probably have retired or died by that time, but TEFL dudes and dudettes will have to find something else to do if they move more quickly.
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