> Google Translate is pretty good on german conversations, anything the EU publishes, and literature, but is really terrible at newspapers. AFAIK Google transl

> Google Translate is pretty good on german conversations, anything the EU publishes, and literature, but is really terrible at newspapers. AFAIK Google translate is trained by using corpora of documents that have known-good translations. I could imagine that they are trained using EU documents, as these would usually be available in multiple languages. That would explain why performance on stuff published by the EU is so good...