You may rarely see an email in your inbox that's not in your native language, but on the off chance that you do, what's your translation strategy? Copy and paste into a translation engine, right? The process is only complicated further for those of us who communicate frequently with multi-language teams across the world.

Now Gmail users don't have to bother with the tediousness of translation, since Google will do all the hard work for us. Starting today, they're making their automatic translation technology, Google Translate, available via a new Labs feature called "Message Translation."

To have the option to translate your emails within Gmail, just go to the Labs tab under Settings and enable the "Message Translation" option. Now foreign language emails will automatically include an option for you to translate the message into the language of your current settings.

As the Gmail blog post points out, Message Translation is pretty cool and functional, so "If all parties are using Gmail, you can have entire conversations in multiple languages with each participant reading the messages in whatever language is most comfortable for them."

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