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Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT is Multilingual by gus_massa on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @09:03AM (#34503633)
The Spanish version is not bad. (It's not perfect, but something like the autotranslation of Google.)

Can you test with a more complicated sentence like

The brown bull is in the tall barn.

It's harder because in the Spanish translation it must change the order of adjective and nouns, and also modify the adjectives according to the gender of the nouns.

The German translation looks bad, but I don't remember enough German to be sure.

Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT is Multilingual by belval on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @10:35AM (#34504855)
Same goes for French, seems like it's mostly doing word-per-word translation.

> Quelque chose de peu parlé dans les médias à propos de ChatGPT est qu'il est multilingue.

Quelque chose => Something

de peu => little

parlé => spoken

dans les médias => in the news

à propos => about

est qu'il est => is that it is

It's not necessarily "bad" but it reads like something someone who speaks English as a first language and learned some French would write.