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If I was, I doubt I'd be using Google Translate as my main translation aid.

I am just a coin collector with an interest in understanding the coins I collect. Without the Internet to help me, I can only "read" Chinese - or Arabic, or Greek, or Russian - to the extent of the words and characters that commonly appear on the coinage. I recall being in a shopping mall food court not long ago; looking at the menu of a Chinese takeaway place, I couldn't recognize a single character. This shouldn't have surprised me; Chinese coins tend to say things like "glorious abundance" or "auspicious prosperity", not "beef in black bean sauce".

I can read Arabic as it is pretty phonetic (assuming the don't drop their trilateral roots on me) but Chinese, I don't want to say I will never get it but the lack of interest and the bijilion symbols makes it to much for my brain.