For the second point, I am a writer, and I've tried using translate to have characters speak in a different language

Shit don't work

Google translate is flaming ass

Re 1,3: I mean, same
But other people do

I just had to cop out and write '"[insert the line]," [insert the character] said in [insert the language].'

There was no other way around it that I could conceive. It had to be that exact language, but I don't speak that language, and neither does google translate

Not well enough to be reliable, anyway

Fair

I think it works better on some languages than others

That said, the most effective way to translate is usually to hire a native speaker

Well, nobody *natively* speaks Esperanto

you could make up your own language

just tolkien it

esperanto? sounds fake

I suppose I could submit the lines to what's his name, Captain Kirk, and ask him to translate

It is fake

It was made up in 1886 or something like that

But around 5 million people speak it

It was intended to be a universal language

Obviously that panned out.

i think the best way to use google translate is to use it all the time and get 60%, then not using it all the time and failing the french exam

j'habite dans un pomme du terre sur la mere

j'accuse le sacre bleu

Is it only me or is 1984 Harrison Ford hella ripped?

omlet du fromage

what is the French version of "Am I kawaii? uguu~~"

Pardon, je ne parlez français

french? sounds fake

Realistically that's the only thing you need to know in any language

well uguu is a made up noise so the equivalent of uguu in any language is still uguu

Heil, ich nicht sprichen deutsch

Howdy, I'don' speak 'Murican

uhhh i disagree

It's "ich spreche kein Deutsch" or "ich spreche Deutsch nicht"

cockadoodledo

I actually do spreche Deutsch so yeah GOML scrub and stop appropriating my culture

this is not a noise btw, its an instruction to doodle a penis

cock a doodle, do!

Oi mate, oi dont 'ave a loicense to speake yer language

YA CHEEKY CUNT, 'AV YE GOT A LOICENSE NOT TO 'AV A LOICENSE?

MATE OI DON' 'AV A LOICENSE TO ANSWE THAT QUESTION