I don’t think it’s gonna replace language learning soon but god I wish it’d happen soon to replace my language learning. Absolutely hate it, but have to. Real time face to face translation would also be great in eliminating code switching so I don’t have to bother to speak my native language ever again, that’d be a massive improvement in quality of life as well.

But yeah, I agree that language learning purely as a tool might get rarer, just like people don’t ride horses around as a means of transportation that commonly anymore; but riding a horse for fun and even for transportation too didn’t get replaced by the invention and proliferation of cars.