I attempt this when communicating with Chinese parts of my business where English may not be spoken at all. I also don’t know any Chinese. I will generally run

I attempt this when communicating with Chinese parts of my business where English may not be spoken at all. I also don’t know any Chinese. I will generally run my English emails through machine translation back and forth multiple times until I find phrasing and word choices which are “bistable” (I get back the original English). I’ll also usually double check specific critical or unstable words using a variety of translation aids (not machine translation) to ensure any (scope-limited) Chinese I write is actually correct. We do have one native Chinese on my side of the team, and every time I’ve had her check the Chinese she says it’s correct for our technical domain. So we really are already at the point where we can communicate across languages with surprisingly low error rates.