The point of this is to help with vocabulary and spelling, not to teach you French from scratch. As someone who also speaks 3 languages, I can tell you personal

The point of this is to help with vocabulary and spelling, not to teach you French from scratch. As someone who also speaks 3 languages, I can tell you personally that typing out sentences in foreign languages that I speak helps me retain vocabulary and spelling. Also, just to clarify, but is the live translation working for you? Some older browsers and folks with noscript/ad blockers on have reported the translation not working, and I can see how you'd think this is not very useful if that feature is not working properly.