For anyone following this I’ve made a new version that relies on a different translator instead of googletrans which seems to be abandonware and was giving me lots of issues.
This one’s still not perfect, sometimes it adds extra spaces or punctuation but I’m too much a dummy to figure it out. anyone is welcome to use or modify as they see fit 
xlf-translator-v2.py (7.1 KB)
requires: pip install translate==3.6.1