Its a nice tool although. I have heard that there are 30+ language added to translator such as Bengali, Hindi, Arabic, Dutch....... The attractive part of the G translator's is Language Detection Tool. Its automatic detects language (If the language is listed). Just you have to copy the text from anywhere and paste on that Tool box and will have to select language to need to translate. In one word its an awesome gift from Google to us.......
Google Translate is still on its beta phase. Much wish with other web page translation services, your lecturers might find parts of the displacement very curious. Google has yet to meet their standards on this.
Yeah, Google translate is quite a good tool, I use it when I don't understand the language from a website (when it has translate) and when I have to translate from Facebook pages (as I have people who's primary language isn't English, but they can speak it). The fact that it can detect the dialect is great too. However, it needs quite a bit improvement, because some of the sentences don't make sense when translated.
Yeah, I use Google translation very often, because English is not my first language and I live in Europe. Cool tool!