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The idea that one can translate words without understanding what is being said, seems rather similar to an idea that one can infer the meaning of words from their constituent letters. Meaning not only works simultaneously on so many technically inaccessible levels (context, expectations, allusions, previous experiences, etc.), anything mildly interesting (not to mention proper literature), is based by definition on a deviation from established meanings.

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So, we need to translate text to an artificial language, which is well understood by both humans and AI, and then render same meaning in native language of listener.

Slovakian or Ukrainian language should be good base for that artificial language, because they are easy to parse and are well developed, with large enough dictionary to cover most cases. Moreover, Ukrainians are very cheap right now, because of war with Russia.

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