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horrible translations - courtesy of china fanatic

Hey guys! Today I'll be introducing two translators I've made with a website called LingoJam . LingoJam lets you easily make an online language translation engine. Simply visit their website, click on "Create Translator", add some words, phrases and rules, and you'll have your very own custom built, fully-editable online translator. It's simple and free! My translators are meant to create terrible translations from English to Chinese, and Chinese to English. First, in the English-to-Chinese translator , from what you type in (say, "Hello, I like China!"), I use Google Translate to translate "Hello", then "I", then "like", then "China", individually, then add in punctuation and string them all together. This results in: "你好, 一世 喜欢 china!" I did this by copying the list of 2000 most frequent English words (separated by newlines), pasting them into Google Translate, copying the Chinese translati