Just so you know, ich_iel (initially it was a german version of me_irl on reddit, but it kind of became its own weird thing) posts make deliberately terrible direct translations as their primary characteristic. In fact, everything must be translated literally.

Comments do this too, so anything you learn from there you should take with a grain of salt because it is often not how words are actually used. Probably similar to your chinese experience in that regard.

There are some other communities on feddit.de that don’t do this though, those might be more worth checking out