Maybe Japanese is not a good target language for this type of test, because its very.. high context, that is to say. the natural way of expressing the ideas of

Maybe Japanese is not a good target language for this type of test, because its very.. high context, that is to say. the natural way of expressing the ideas of the origional text in japanese, might leave some of the meaning to context, and not have it explicitly marked or encoded in words left on the page, then when that is translated back to english that part is lost. also it doesnt provide a good test of if the japanese in the middle was any good.. like in this case it probably had a lot of "watashi"s in place of "I" where this woud not be natural in japanese. The fun part of chatgpt is you can ask it to do non-standard translations like "can you give me the direct non idiomatic translation of the following Japanese into English, to help me remember these phrases in English words but the Japanese way of saying it" Sure, I can provide a direct, non-idiomatic translation of the Japanese text into English. This kind of task is straightforward for me, so no worries. "Big forest's right next to, poor wood-cutter and his wife, and two children were living. Boy was Hansel, girl was Gretel called. He had almost no food, once big famine attacked the country, daily bread even could no longer obtain. Night, in bed this thing thinking, anxious tossing and turning, he groaned, to wife said: 'We what become? Poor children to how food provide, ourselves even nothing when.' 'Husband, tomorrow morning early, children to forest's thickest place take let's go. There for them fire light, each one more piece of bread fragment give, then we to work go, them alone leave. They home return way find not become, we them let go can.' 'No, wife,' man said, 'that can't do, why I children in forest alone leave can? Wild animals soon come, them tear apart will.' 'Oh, fool!' she said, 'then we four people all die of hunger, our coffins' plank plane might as well.' And, she him agree until him peace not did. 'But, still poor children very sorry,' man said."