Is google translate from Chinese (Mandarin presumably) always this good? I'm pretty shocked by how coherent the resulting article is.
My manager speaks a dialect that's pronounced differently, but has a grammar close to Mandarin. The majority of people here in Hong Kong speak Cantonese, which is grammatically more different and uses a lot more slang and references to popular culture. I'm told that growing up here, leaving at age 15, and coming back at 25 makes it very difficult to follow daily conversations and read certain types of publications for the first few months because of the amount of slang used and how rapidly Cantonese changes.