As an automatic translator, Google is far better than Bing, which is lame in all languages; I have used Google translator for Swedish, German or Dutch into English, and it does a pretty decent job. It's normally full of flaws, but the main ideas can be understood quite easily. But, gosh, Spanish-to-English and English-to-Spanish are really terrible. Sometimes half of what has been written is lost and the "translation" is impossible to follow (same for French).
I personally prefer to have foreign languages translated into English, because Google seems to have set its attention there and programmers in other languages are not as good, but I definitely only recommend it for one or two difficult sentences, not whole webpages or as a reading alternative. As Rusty says, machines can't do a human's job and there are plenty of resources in practically every target language available online to learn and practice.
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