Automatic message translation in Gmail

Google will continue to delight its users. Another innovation available in Gmail. This is an automatic translation of messages from one language to another.
Connects the new function as usual - in the «Settings / Labs» tab, you need to check the Enable checkbox next Message translation.

In general, the new feature is very convenient. It is clear that talk about the perfect translation is not necessary, yet it is an automatic translator, but a man-linguist. However, the translation quality is above average and it is enough to understand written material.

By the way, the translator is useful to those who are experiencing agonizing feeling at the sight of hundreds of letters to the SPAM folder. Now just press one button to make sure that a foreign message is really spam, rather than a message from Obama.

Some inconvenience is the fact that Gmail offers to translate only those letters that are written in a language that does not match the language set in Gmail. That is, if you are using an English-language interface, English will be considered to have the family and letters come in English, offered to the translation will not. On the one hand it seems logical, but on the other the fact remains - many Russian-speaking users for one reason or another it was elected English as the interface language.

Also I do not understand why you can not make the transfer just write a letter before sending. Suppose I write American friend. I wrote a letter and sent clicked translate left translation. Now this can be done.