"我们的老板很麻烦。"
Translation:Our boss is annoying.
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I feel this sentence has several issues. 麻烦 is closer to "troublesome" than "annoying", and "我们的老板给我们(添)很多麻烦" (Our boss makes a lot of trouble for us/gives us a lot of trouble) is much more natural of a sentence than directly using 麻烦 to describe someone.
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Yes, so I take it as a very colloquial sentence, since, although 烦人 is the accurate phrase, I hear many people describing someone as 麻烦.
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Right, I'd say both are possible. 麻烦 is troublesome, e.g. the person often comes to you with new demands. There's a more colloquial term with the same meaning in Beijing dialect: 事儿 ("我老板很事儿"). 烦人 is annoying, e.g. the person keeps talking to you about something you don't want to hear, and you find that very disturbing.
I like how you can make a story of the sentences given in this course!
A: 我们的老板很麻烦。 B: 你刚才说了什么？ A: 我们都喜欢我们的老板！
troublesome or difficult are both better translations than annoying
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Another meaning listed in the lesson is 'tricky', so it should either be accepted here, or deleted as a possible meaning.
It doesn't hear me properly if I'm speaking too fast. I have to speak slower for this one, unlike a few other ones. Oh well! Speech recognition isn't perfect, and it doesn't always work properly!