Remember the early days of online foreign language translation when translating a phrase from English to a foreign language then back to English was as entertaining as turning on Facebook’s Pirate mode?

When it comes to Google Translate, those days are largely over, according to this New York Times article by Miguel Helft. According to Helft:
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Google Translate is helping to overcome language barriers online with its free online translation of texts, web pages and documents, and it’s progressed a long way since the early days of Babel Fish with its sometimes hilarious, nonsensical “roundtrip” translations. But the web is also facilitating language learning in a way that doesn’t require sitting in a classroom. As Eric A. Taub notes in a New York Times article, “The Web Way to Learn a Language“:
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