My new computer has a really easy translation feature, this is sooo cool!

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First, I click on translationg, then a pull down for choices of languages from Affrikaner to Yiddish comes down. I click on that. That's it! 2 clicks and the entire page I'm on is translated. I had a Mylot page up. I checked French and Haitian Creole. Man, no wonder I don't understand Haitians when they speak. Many differences! My husband thought it was neat that they had Korean since he spent 2 years in Korea in the military. Russian would have been handy in college and German. I was always researching parapsychology and medical uses of plants. Para has tons of articles in Russian. Germans have done a lot of research in medicinal uses of plants far beyong what most American research. Then when I started Shotokan Karate, Japanese would have been nice to be able to translate. Now I do T'ai Chi which is Chinese and that would be neat. One talks about the power within as Ki and the other as Chi. Officially, I was learning Elementary Education and Reading in college. Unofficially, plants and parapsychology as well as the power within, the internal energy,force, power. All of which has way more interesting articles in other languages. Imagine trying to study things you're interested in and always having reference articles in other languages that you would like to read, but can't. Getting stuck in your research, first because you don't know Russian, then because you don't know German, then because you don't know Japanese, then because you don't know Chinese. It's enough to make you pull your hair out! I wonder how good this translation program really is. Now I can go back to cruising the internet for the medicinal plant research, parapyschology and the power within. I wonder if the reading program for people with disabilities in this computer can read other languages or if it only reads in English. Can you imagine taking one page of print, translating it into many different languages and then if you could hear it, too? I think it only reads English phonetics, though. So do you have official and unofficial fields of study? (like a vocation and an avocation?) Have you done research on a variety of things? Have you been able to go as far as you want with your research? Has language been a barrier? Do you have a translation program? Do you have to pay for it? How good is it? Are you able to do more without stopping than you were before? Do you still get stuck? Was there a computer or internet innovation that got you all excited? Were you able to do things you weren't able to do before? You're not stopped, but can go on?