Well, I can't learn every language. I speak Hungarian, English, German and some Spanish, but when when I want to read some Russian forums, or a news article in

Well, I can't learn every language. I speak Hungarian, English, German and some Spanish, but when when I want to read some Russian forums, or a news article in Romanian etc. then without Google translate it would not be possible. Communicating face-to-face directly is still valued in business, even though we could replace such discussions with e-mail or IM. Humans value the direct and "emotional" connection that talking facilitates. Like intonation, facial expressions, word use etc. It's not the same if they speak to me through a speech recognizer + machine translator + text-to-speech synthesizer pipeline.