A new app aims to make the lives of refugees, immigrants and tourists from all around the world easier by diminishing language barriers -- the techie way.

Tarjimly, which just launched last Tuesday, connects any user to a volunteer translator so they can quickly translate any phrase or sentence to their desired language.

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It works just like a Facebook Messenger bot that you can access using any smartphone. It's easy to use. Just message the bot, choose the language and the Tarjimly app will automatically pair the user with an online translator. 

With this app, there's no need to search through pages of a foreign dictionary when communication becomes a matter of life and death. Not only does it save time and add a great amount of convenience for any foreigner, it also has the potential of saving lives -- especially when there's an immediate need to speak with doctors, legal representatives and other people that they may need crucial help from.

Anyone from any part of the world can also volunteer to be a translator through an online form. They only need to designate at least two languages that they can speak and write on a "colloquial level." After being verified (with only a first name for privacy and security), the translator will get request in the form of a Facebook message.

The app is still on demo mode with only Arabic as the main language. In the coming weeks, Pashto, Farsi, Urdu and other languages will reportedly be added next and the app will finally start connecting people with translators.

So far, more than 1,200 people have already signed up as translators for Tarjimly. The makers of the app only expected 50, but with the current heat toward refugees and immigrants has expectedly boomed the app's market.

It definitely comes at just the right time -- just days after President Trump signed an executive order that keeps people coming from seven Muslim nations from entering America.

Interestingly, the app was created by three Muslim American MIT graduates with families who are currently being affected by the immigration ban.

"It was a huge problem," said Tarjimly co-founder Atif Javed about the dire need of a faster and more efficient translation method, particularly in European refugee camps where they had volunteered.

"We wondered if we could leverage the millions of Arabic and English speakers, and the millions of Farsi and English speakers, around the world and give them an opportunity to actually mobilize and help out."