Imo it’s better to write in English and if you want – add additional excuse that you don’t speak that language (auto-translated), because when people use e.g. Google translate it’s often impossible to understand what they meant in any of languages involved.
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Exactly!!!
In North America at least, ‘word salad’ is commonly used to denote some of the meaningless nonsense that passes for writing on social media. It is also used for Schizophrenic people, or even demented/brain damaged people, but that is a whole different thing. Most of the Schizophrenic people I have known could usually make their wishes or comments understandable. And as a psychiatric nurse, I met a lot of severely Schizophrenic folks. Quite liked most of them!
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I wasn’t wondering. Just that I don’t expect perfect English with every conversation!
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Perfect 
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Noooooooo!!! I accidentally deleted the voting pole and had to make it again! Could you guys vote again if you want to?
The thing is, if you worry too much about details like spelling or grammar, you might decide to skip writing something that may be of value to another observer. If you get corrected on your English, assume good motives ~ like that the user was actually trying to be helpful. With every person you encounter, they’re better at something than you — and you’re better at something different than them. And that’s ok.
If you feel you’ve been misunderstood, however, perhaps you could tag another bilingual iNat acquaintance for help — someone who also speaks both languages you are navigating.
If you find yourself thinking about something you’ve written for more than 5-10 minutes, perhaps sleep on it. Review it the next day, then try to do something to help you move on and change focus. You don’t have to be perfect. That being said, I’ll probably edit this comment in 6 minutes. 
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Six minutes? Why?
What ‘‘valuable’’ thing would I skip if I try to correct my grammar or spelling?
Finally, a question on iNat. that has to do with my area of expertise. I’m an English teacher. Trust me–you should not worry about your English skills. :) You write well. Your post is clear, organized and coherent. (You also have excellent command of the comma rules.) Please don’t worry about communicating in English.
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Meaning, a person (any person) who is very worried about their grammar might (unfortunately) decide not to say anything at all.
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Because after 5 minutes, the little edit pencil turns orange. I would know, as I have many edits LOL!
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Really?! Nice to meet (promise i was writing ‘‘meat’’) you. Pretty surprised about the comments I’ve been receiving.
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Not always
Well that’s true…
Actually, deeple does a really nice job for the languages I understand… can recommend that app for translating purposes… but is limited in languages actually
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Checking message #68 from this thread and your last one, Google actually does better job, with only one problematic moment “sleep on it” as there’s no simple translation of this idiom (and I like what it uses for it). DeepL’s major problems are with “If you get corrected on your English” and your “deeple does a really nice job for the languages” where in first case it translates it “on” part as if someone is using English to correct you, and in the second case it translates it literally, that deeple is doing some job for those languages, which is pretty funny.
To add, at least one of translated reviewes at the bottom of main DeepL page has a logical error in one of its sentences that my teacher would not like at all.
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I wouldn’t lie about English skills. :)
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I hope so hahahahhaa.
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…i misclicked, lol- don’t count my opinion!!!
Your English is fantastic!! To me it’s basically perfect!
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You misclicked your vote? Why don’t you change it?!