JackStonewall

If you're being taught something, anything, by a teacher, naturally the teacher and his or her skills in formulating advice, and employing effective teaching techniques are decisive in your learning experience. I don't think there's any argument about that. One of the most important qualities any teacher can have, I think, is the ability to communicate complex material in a simple format. That's the real challenge. The second quality is the ability to convey the material in an entertaining way. For any teacher to reach that level, is incredibly difficult. Most teachers and their teaching methods are similar, boring and bland. It's always the same, and it's certainly not entertaining by any stretch of the imagination, and not really interesting either. An interesting way of teaching (that might even be the future) are holographic projections and video games: visual stimuli which promotes learning. I think that would totally revolutionize the entire concept of teaching and learning. Now that's something I want to see.

I think you answered your own question there. Honestly, the scenario you describe is absolutely ridiculous. Being that I can hear, but not see, obviously to find my way around I'll have to use my hearing. On the other hand, that doesn't mean much when I don't even know where I am, and I can't see anything, which means I'll have to talk to people and ask for help. I don't think there's a lot of options left. Wait, here's a creative solution, I'll call a taxi! You didn't see that coming now did you! Easy as pie. Sorry, but your example is so ridiculous I can't get over it! (In a good, funny way, not an offensive one!)

Now I don't know your friend, and I don't claim to, but are you sure she even speaks Romanian at a native level herself? Because, frankly, I've seen (and sometimes used) Google Translate, and no matter how broken it is or how terrible it sounds, it's still perfectly understandable. For a native speaker, if nothing else. As for whether you should use Bing or Google, aren't all these free translation services pretty much the same? And by "pretty much" I mean identical. I don't think it matters much which one you use. If you want to make yourself understood when you're communcating with her, and she's having all this trouble understanding the machine translation, I suggest you research other translation services that cost a bit of money. Most are cheap and offer decent translations (better than machine translations in any case), and it's certainly a lot better than trying to say something to your friend when half the conversation is "what do you mean?", or maybe it's not. I'm rambling.