MSN is great, and your lady should be able to get a translation plug-in. I can now actually write some really good chinese - I just put the english in google, then translate the chinese back to english, if it comes back as the original english then it is good to send to the lady!
Be very careful about talking about important things outside of EMFs though, it is very easy to offend the lady or get her stressed.
My lady is OK with moving to the UK, but then she is probably a bit more "westernised" than the others, being quite young and having grown up with the Internet and Western movies etc. She also has a very western job. Also I don't come with much baggage, and neither does she, so we could live anywhere we wanted to really.