Abstract: A language translation system receives audio output from a television, a radio, or some other electronic device designed to present a program to a user, so as to identify any speech signal contained within the audio output. The speech signals are broken down into recognizable phonemes which make up the most basic elements of speech in spoken languages. The sequentially generated phonemes identified from the speech signals are then regrouped so as to form recognizable words in one of a predetermined number of recognizable languages. Sentences are then formed using the grammatical rules of the recognized language so that each sentence may be translated into a universal language, such as Esperanto. The translation system then translates the sentences from Esperanto to the native language of the user as identified by the user.