What's your goal in learning a language? In most cases, I would say it's pointless at this stage. Machine translation is already much better than most people

What's your goal in learning a language? In most cases, I would say it's pointless at this stage. Machine translation is already much better than most people can achieve with 6 months of study, and it's improving rapidly. I used to love learning languages, but I try to avoid learning things automation will soon be able to do better than I can hope to. On the other hand, if you need to be functional in a foreign language for the sake of some broader short-term goal, it might still be a sensible investment.