Nowadays, we can see a lot of language translation softwares and their functions have been strengthened. That's why some people believe that kids do not have to spend time and take an effort in mastering foreign words. However, I am very against the above idea with the following reasons.

Compared to people's speaking, a translation machine has an obvious limitation in expressing speaker's delicate emotion. As you see, the structure of language is very complicate because we use gesture, intonation, an facial expression while communicatin with other people. This reflects that it's impossible to expect the machine to translate these complex factors. In addition, it is bothersome to carry a tranlation dictionary all the time and brings lot's of incovenience. Imagine the battery dies while you have a very important business meeting. Moreover, exchanging words by a software would bring about very unefficient communication result as it is not based on real-time.

Unlike many drawbacks of depending on a machine, kids can have various advantages if they learn a global language, e.g. English, Chinese, or Japanese. As you may know, a language is the output of custome and culture of a country. Therefore, mastering a foreign language helps young people to understand its culture and lifestyle. Not only that, but having a second language can be a good tool to expand global human network. For example, the youth can make pen pals and it could be very valuable asset if their relationship lasts. Last but not least, having a good command of global language means that you can have a better career chance those who only speak their mother tongue can not have.

To sum up, a cutting-edge tanslation machine cab be helpful to some extent when people learn foreign languages. However, it could not take a main seat in the aspect of communication tool because the advantages of mastering a global franca far outweigh those of translation machine with the reasons I have discussed above.