1. 5 Reasons Not to Use Translators for Your Online Chinese Courses

2. From a buffet on a cruise ship: chicken mushroom tart is
translated as “Timid and fast-increasing prostitute.”

3. Chinese has a lot of idioms related to stories or legends, and
the translators cannot translate the true meanings of most
of these idioms.

4. The true meaning: 你一切都好吗？or 你怎么样？

5. Translators don’t get the Chinese STPVO sentence
structure: Subject-Time-Place-Verb-Object. The correct
translation should be 我和我妹妹（或者姐姐）每星期五
在家练钢琴。

6. A person drunk is translated as “a liquor head.”