Obviously this is a question meant for bilingual players.

I ran Lost City of Amdapor (normal, the lvl 50 instance) early this morning with a tank that only had French checked off as a language and appeared at least to speak French, from what little he typed. I bring the question up because the tank was clearly clueless about his role, despite being a level 56 paladin. He pulled with Provoke, opened with his combo (no Shield Lob), and used Flash very rarely and at random. When mobs went to the SCH's fairy, he made no attempt to pull them back and only focused one target at a time.

While the other dps and healer took to harassing him, I attempted to use auto-translate to help. He didn't respond at all to this. When we reached Diabolos, I finally broke down and initiated a kick on him.

I realize at this point I was being far too generous in letting him go free for the majority of the instance, but I'm really nervous about kicking people in the first place (and I also have an abnormal amount of patience). Coming back to the original question, was the auto-translate function making anything understandable on his end? For reference, I used:

paladin
Shield Lob
Please draw enmity.
Can you speak English?
Please use the auto-translate function.
Can you do it?

I understand that it's hard to make a proper sentence with any of these strung together, but do these phrases come out properly in French?