> That is also when Google Translate became available on virtually all smartphones, so you could say that 2011 was the year that humanity rebuilt the Tower of

> That is also when Google Translate became available on virtually all smartphones, so you could say that 2011 was the year that humanity rebuilt the Tower of Babel. 10 years later, Google Translate is still not dependable in real world colloquial usage ( I moved abroad ). It works for simple things, but the risk of miscommunication is way too high. I’ve learned ( been trained) to restructure my sentences in less idiomatic ways to get Google to make sense, but it’s still a dice roll . There are certain ideas that are practically unreachable. Knowing the local language grammar a bit, you rely on Google translate for bits and pieces, then compose sentences / ideas / communication yourself.