Anyone who has studied even a few weeks of Spanish knows that translation from one language to another involves much more than simply looking up words in a dictionary.
Different languages are more than different vocablularies.
Spanish and English, for example, differ in the structure of their grammar as well as in the specific words used to describe things. An important example of this is the verb to be . This apparently innocent expression can be translated in many ways depending on context and purpose. El senador es abogado. Yo soy profesor.