I am using babylon. It is not always great an you would need some idea but in general I think it is pretty good. Hope that helps,Welcome Bertha21!
You mentioned using Google for translations. I have used it too, and I have to ask. How accurate and well done are the translations?
I have used it to translate from English into: German, Korean and Portuguese. I do not know a great deal of German, but I do know a little. From what I could tell it did not appear that it had translated it into anything insulting, but I know how hard this can be for a computer.
One of the early attempts at translating English into Russian translated "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" into "The wine is acceptable, but the meat is rotten." :crazy:
In terms of any European language , I am happy to help.