Within the current explosion in the quantity of information and in the means to access it, much of the world has been left behind because the information is not in a language that they understand. The L3 project ("Learning Lots of Languages") has the long-term goal of developing a system to translate to and from many under-represented languages of the Global South and (less ambitiously) of creating tools to be used in information retrieval and computer-assisted language learning with these languages.