And becareful about Google Translator ^^
Well, yeah. Though I DID get away with using it for my russian emigre hero for a long time. THough back then I was using IMtranslator, not Google Translate. Then one night I ran into someone who was russian, and delighted to hear someone using a little russian now and again.
He struck up a conversation in tells. This went on for maybe 10 minutes, with me madly cutting and pasting. Finally he says (translated from russian, of couse),
"Your russian is fairly good, but I can tell you are not native, you have an odd turn of phrase now and again."
I responded. "Why, thank you. That is good to hear, because I don't know more than a word or two of russian. Yelena does, but I don't."
Next tell - "But, what, how? You speak it quite acceptably!"
My response. "Well, no, I don't speak russian at all. My computer does using IMtranslator, but not I."
We both agreed that it was pretty funny. I've also successfully gamesmastered in a language I don't speak using cut and paste machine translation. So far I've not caused any major international incidents, but I'm still trying. (wink)