While i generally don't care if one can speak English or not, it would be nice to know what people are saying. so if it where possible to have a program that did a background task of automatically translating any language that would be nice. like possibly make it part of web browsers.
Just my suggestion
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There are already plugins for browsers that do that.
Of course, the problem is that the translation itself isn't that reliable.
I am aware of the plug-ins, but as you said they are not very good. though if it was a standard feature instead of a plug-in and made by a competent linguist and programmer. though its just a thought i wanted to put out there. there are a lot of things that prevent that i know.