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It should be "This is how it looks" or "This is what it looks like". This is British English. Not sure if our American cousins have a different phrase.

would you prefer "this is how it looks" ?

I'm actually asking because I don't know, not being a native speaker either. I just picked up the "looks like" idiom and assumed it was en_us considered ok (like "long time no see" or using "egregious" to mean the opposite of the original meaning)

Yeah... "This is how it looks" or "this is what it looks like" are logically consistent. "This is how it looks like"? It looks like how?

ah makes sense, thanks!

I've heard this mistake made particularly frequently by native German speakers.