8. A voicemail system comprising: a tangible computer processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising receiving a call for a called party at the voicemail system, the voicemail system comprising a stored language preference for the called party, prompting a calling party to leave a message, creating the message, providing a plurality of calling-party-selected language preferences; prompting the calling party to select, from the plurality of calling-party-selected language preferences, a calling-party-selected language preference for the message, in response to prompting the calling party to select, from the plurality of calling-party-selected language preferences, the calling-party-selected language preference for the message, receiving the calling-party-selected language preference for the message, overriding the stored language preference for the called party with the calling-party-selected language preference, determining whether the message is in the calling-party-selected language preference, and in response to overriding the stored language preference with the calling-party-selected language preference, and if the message is not in the calling-party-selected preferred language identified by the language preference, translating the message into a preferred language of the calling-party-selected preferred language preference, thereby creating a translated message.
8. A voicemail system comprising: a tangible computer processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising receiving a call for a called party at the voicemail system, the voicemail system comprising a stored language preference for the called party, prompting a calling party to leave a message, creating the message, providing a plurality of calling-party-selected language preferences; prompting the calling party to select, from the plurality of calling-party-selected language preferences, a calling-party-selected language preference for the message, in response to prompting the calling party to select, from the plurality of calling-party-selected language preferences, the calling-party-selected language preference for the message, receiving the calling-party-selected language preference for the message, overriding the stored language preference for the called party with the calling-party-selected language preference, determining whether the message is in the calling-party-selected language preference, and in response to overriding the stored language preference with the calling-party-selected language preference, and if the message is not in the calling-party-selected preferred language identified by the language preference, translating the message into a preferred language of the calling-party-selected preferred language preference, thereby creating a translated message. 9. The voicemail system of claim 8 , wherein the voicemail system comprises a plain old voicemail system.