Translation Widget Inoperative

For some reason, my stock translation widget just doesnt work anymore. The translation portion of it says "undefined" and has some glitchy looking font written behind the drop-down menu. And the "translate from" either says Chinese (Simplified) or English, which are the two I have been using most frequently. Actually, now that I think about it, ever since I changed my language preferences to Chinese after logging in one time (changing it back to English eventually), I have experienced this problem; however, that should not have messed up my computer.
I have tried taking a new widget from my roommate's Macbook to overwrite my broken one, but it didn't change a thing.
Sláinte,
Josh
P.S. What in the world is a kernal_task in my Activity Viewer? It says it's taking up 453MB of RAM! That's absurd.
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I actually don't even have the ability to translate anything, so I can't say that is my problem... it simply either says English in both the "translate from" and "to" fields or Chinese (Simplified Han) when I press the swap button, so I don't get a chance to translate from either of the languages. Pretty obnoxious. There has to be a fix short of restoring my software from my disc. that would mess my computer up.

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