Is it normal that i think google translate is shit?

I agree with you that google translate is far from perfect. It's fair at best.

However, none of the other electronic translation programs are any better (and I've tried 2 others).

My wife is from Ukraine and we met on the internet through a dating site. I did not know she was in Ukraine and could not speak English, and I only know a few words of Russian or Ukrainian (she is fluent in both).

We used google translate all the time... and it worked well enough for us to meet - and marry.

We now laugh about the misconceptions we had based on the google translate errors... (although a few of them presented real challenges for us to work out when we discovered them).

It was the best tool we had - and it worked good enough so we had a fairly good understanding of each other.

I also use it (and other translation programs) for both personal and work reasons. For critical translations I hire an actual person who is fluent in the language and the subject under discussion (example: I was doing some engineering work for a Chinese project a few years ago. I found a Chinese immigrant who was an engineer here in the USA for translation assistance as they would understand the engineering terms and issues I was dealing with - and be able to properly translate the portions of the documents I was interested in). However, I cannot afford to pay $$$ per hour for most routine news and documents (can you?)

I'm not going to criticize Google Translate. It's a case of understanding its limitations, and understanding when its worth paying for good translation.

google translate is shit. it's not always accurate.

i find that papago works best for me.
(although it mainly translates from english to korean, chinese, etc.)

I tried learning spanish by using google translate but ppl kept saying "wtf" anytime I said somethihg. Duolingo is the best

i learned how to say beer in chinese though