Steve,
For a minute I was trying to figure out why I would be called a polywog...
My one and only language is American...know a few words in Dutch and Italian...and a few naughty words in Indonesian...
My wife helps with Italian...
...then I use translators...
This translation utility really helps too...if you read/translate a German, French, or Italian sales ad, the translation comes out about 70%...enough to figure out what the seller is trying to convey...
If you build up some certain key words such as "pistolentache" in German or "shutzenfest" also in German...lots of stuff pops up on the foreign sites...
http://babelfish.altavista.com/