$newsid = ''; ?> Next best thing to Star Trek-style universal translator: Steeev's Flickr-powered Visual Dictionary.
When you're walking down a street in Outer Foobaristan and you get a sudden urge for some chicken soup but don't speak Foobar, whip out your net-capable phone or wireless PDA and let Flickr do the talking: chicken soup.
It has an option to use Google Images, too, but some of the results might taste funny.