I’m not fluently bi-lingual but this is my go-to answer whenever someone’s asked me how to say a certain thing in English, when they’re writing or figuring out

I’m not fluently bi-lingual but this is my go-to answer whenever someone’s asked me how to say a certain thing in English, when they’re writing or figuring out how to talk to someone else. My questions usually would be: 1. How would you say it in [original language?]. This is on the off-chance I know what they’re talking about, or can reasonably guess. Sometimes this is good enough that they get what they want out of it. Also, I get to learn a little bit more of their language, if it’s one that I’ve also learned a bit about :) 2. What are you trying to say/what’s the context? This is to get around the X/Y problem, because usually the question isn’t so simple. It’s rare to have a straight up, correct answer the moment someone asks how to translate. And if it does come up so easily, they were already speaking good English in the first place. Just needed the vocab.