diff --git a/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/base.py b/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/base.py
index 9dad0c1..2720219 100644
--- a/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/base.py
+++ b/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/base.py
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ from operator import attrgetter
 from lxml import etree, html
 from ebook_converter import force_unicode
 from ebook_converter.constants import filesystem_encoding, __version__, ispy3
-from ebook_converter.translations.dynamic import translate
 from ebook_converter.utils.xml_parse import safe_xml_fromstring
 from ebook_converter.ebooks.chardet import xml_to_unicode
 from ebook_converter.ebooks.conversion.preprocess import CSSPreProcessor
@@ -1843,9 +1842,7 @@ class OEBBook(object):
 
     def translate(self, text):
         """Translate :param:`text` into the book's primary language."""
-        lang = unicode_type(self.metadata.language[0])
-        lang = lang.split('-', 1)[0].lower()
-        return translate(lang, text)
+        return text
 
     def decode(self, data):
         """Automatically decode :param:`data` into a `unicode` object."""
diff --git a/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/polish/toc.py b/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/polish/toc.py
index d1dd82f..0c46ce3 100644
--- a/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/polish/toc.py
+++ b/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/polish/toc.py
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ from ebook_converter.ebooks.oeb.polish.errors import MalformedMarkup
 from ebook_converter.ebooks.oeb.polish.utils import guess_type, extract
 from ebook_converter.ebooks.oeb.polish.opf import set_guide_item, get_book_language
 from ebook_converter.ebooks.oeb.polish.pretty import pretty_html_tree
-from ebook_converter.translations.dynamic import translate
 from ebook_converter.utils.localization import get_lang, canonicalize_lang, lang_as_iso639_1
 from ebook_converter.polyglot.builtins import iteritems, map, unicode_type
 from ebook_converter.polyglot.urllib import urlparse
@@ -866,9 +865,6 @@ def create_inline_toc(container, title=None):
     '''
     lang = get_book_language(container)
     default_title = 'Table of Contents'
-    if lang:
-        lang = lang_as_iso639_1(lang) or lang
-        default_title = translate(lang, default_title)
     title = title or default_title
     toc = get_toc(container)
     if len(toc) == 0:
diff --git a/ebook_converter/translations/__init__.py b/ebook_converter/translations/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
diff --git a/ebook_converter/translations/dynamic.py b/ebook_converter/translations/dynamic.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 6f02287..0000000
--- a/ebook_converter/translations/dynamic.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals
-'''
-Dynamic language lookup of translations for user-visible strings.
-'''
-
-__license__   = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2008, Marshall T. Vandegrift <llasram@gmail.com>'
-
-import io
-from gettext import GNUTranslations
-from ebook_converter.constants import ispy3
-from ebook_converter.utils.localization import get_lc_messages_path
-from zipfile import ZipFile
-
-__all__ = ['translate']
-
-_CACHE = {}
-
-
-def translate(lang, text):
-    trans = None
-    if lang in _CACHE:
-        trans = _CACHE[lang]
-    else:
-        mpath = get_lc_messages_path(lang)
-        if mpath is not None:
-            with ZipFile(P('localization/locales.zip',
-                allow_user_override=False), 'r') as zf:
-                try:
-                    buf = io.BytesIO(zf.read(mpath + '/messages.mo'))
-                except Exception:
-                    pass
-                else:
-                    trans = GNUTranslations(buf)
-                    _CACHE[lang] = trans
-    if trans is None:
-        return getattr(__builtins__, '_', lambda x: x)(text)
-    f = getattr(trans, 'gettext' if ispy3 else 'ugettext')
-    return f(text)