Translating

I have a number of generous friends but I do not speak their language and they do not speak English. For a few of them I do not even recognise their language. Tried Google translate but you cant copy and paste directly from wall posts.

Anyone got any suggestions?

Personally, I use webtranslation.paralink.com.  If you can figure out the language (mine are mostly Russian), you can retype the message using their language-specific keyboard.  If we could copy from the wall, the website has a language recognition function, but I haven't found a way to copy from the wall either.