If you were in Montreal, I hope you would make the effort to learn it.
During the times I have been in Montreal (haven't been since 2019) I try to listen to French TV stations on the hotel or AirBnB TV. It doesn't work, because everyone is talking too fast. If they slow down, maybe i would learn, but the words all run together and I cannot make out words or sentences. Unfortunately there is no way to get them to slow down the speech. I feel like saying, "slow the fuck down!!!!!" But of course yelling at the TV is not going to work, any more than hitting it.
Assuming I was actually in Montreal and could drug everyone around me so they spoke slowly, I could probably learn a little, but it has not happened beyond knowing how to read menus and most parking/traffic signs.
Regarding the board automatic translator: it works pretty good for translating most posts. However, with Gaby's French posts in particular, my sense is (and I do not know for sure) that there are senses of humor in some of his posts that are being lost in the translation. I do not really know for sure. Most translators do not get humor. But whether it is true or not, only you Francophone dudes would know.