That is a i18n issue with the website itself? Or are you saying you know a good portion of a language, but you aren't fluent, so you read it in whatever the default language is, by default, without translating the page or using it in your native language?
Depends. Sometimes I know the language partially, sometimes I can move around using pure context, and other times translation is possible in most pages.
Disabling selection in non-textual parts of websites is unfortunately something that happens quite frequently, but people rarely notice.
This is naturally for websites without i18n. Very common especially in government and public websites.