I think this would be a wonderful idea, since we currently have the NA, LA and BRA servers fighting together in dungeons/raids/bgs. It is possible, since there’s a GoT app that has one built-in. It’s not 100% accurate, but you get the jist of what someone is saying.
Food for thought.
This is a great idea actually, wonder why it hasn’t already been instituted.
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FFXIV:ARR did something like this. They had a menu of some common phrases that, when posted in a chat, would appear to others in the language of their choosing.
I’d like to see something like that in WoW, too. With more countries and cultures joining the internet, we’ll be seeing more languages used in WoW.
This could be doable, and should be pursued if Blizzard isn’t already doing it. As for full-blown machine translation, that’s not yet reliable enough (or cheap enough) for general use in-game, at least as far as I know.
Or you could just like try talking to them first. I pug with a lot of players from a lot of realms and I’d say 98% of the time those players from those realms are perfectly capable of speaking/reading/writing English.
Only the ones who can speak English can actually reply to you, which is why you think “98%” can speak English…
I just copy paste into Google translate, I don’t know how accurate it is but I think it’s close
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That literally doesn’t even make sense and isn’t at all what I was saying.
If I was just basing it off of the ones who replied then I would think 100% of them could speak English wouldn’t I?
I’m saying that the overwhelming majority of the time I’m grouped with a player from a LA or Brazilian realm, that they can understand me and I can understand them.
How do you know when you’re grouped with someone who can’t understand you? You have no way of knowing if someone is quiet or if they don’t understand the language you’re speaking in.
OP made a solid suggestion, the answer isn’t “or just speak English!”. Your 
is showing.
This is a great idea. It’d probably be incredibly difficult to implement, maybe there’s a Google integration that could happen? Idk.
Either way, yes, this would be really awesome to have.
Learn one romance language and you’ll understand them all. It’s not that hard.
We can simulate this by making a list of common sayings then translating them to a few different languages and creating a in game macro for each saying.
I wanted to do that one of these days. But my inner lazy veto’ed that idea.
We actually already have a (very limited) version of this with emotes. Things like /wait or /no will be translated into whatever language the other person is using. It would be nice if they expanded this to include a wider number of basic phrases.
How do you copy from chat in wow classic??? I need this in my life. I’m on thalnos and it would be epic if I could do this.