... at least for me...but for some of my students soon leaving for their stay abroad it is even harder. Here is a letter which one of the students wrote to his future host-family:

"Good day my name is xx yy am 20 years and come from Berne, the capital of Switzerland. Recently has I mean 3 year old cook teachings locked. To my hobbies computer exit and cooking belongs. Gladly I would like in Australia the English language to learn and to me the country regard"

Wonderful!

just shut the hell up

http://babelfish.altavista.com

A beautiful literal machine translation from German.

I like Exit.

Fantastic.

Good fun to translate back again:

Guter Tag ist mein Name xx yy morgens 20 Jahre und gekommen aus Bern, das Kapital von der Schweiz. Hat vor kurzem mich bedeuten 3 den verriegelten Einjahreskochunterricht. meinen Liebhabereien gehört Computerausgang und das Kochen. Froh möchte ich in Australien die englische Sprache, zum zu erlernen und zu mir der Landrespekt