Friend: Your Chinese is getting better and better! Keep going!
Me: Thank you! You are great!
So, I can read that bit of text and it’s no problem for me, even though it is in Chinese, I can actually read over 200 characters, but I still have a long way to go. According to sources that I’ve read, you need to know at least 1,000 characters to read newspapers here in Taiwan.
However, the issue here is with ‘Bing’s’ translation service, that is being used on Facebook. It sucks, period. For some reason it mistook “中文” for “英文”, which is quite a bad translation as it just mixed up two totally different languages. At least with Google translate that service is somewhat accurate, especially when it comes to regular verbs and nouns. But Bing fails altogether and I’ve been using it for a while, just for fun on Facebook to see what mistakes it makes. – It sure makes a lot of mistakes, which is essentially why Bing is a failure.