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"Comment trouvez-vous mes nouvelles lunettes ?"
Translation:How do you like my new glasses?
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The French do not say « Comment aimez-vous .... »
To quote an answer by Amine about the back-translation:
Because it doesn't make any sense in French. How do you like something? is typically English, and doesn't exist in French. If you ask Comment est-ce que tu aimes quelque chose ?, you ask for a description of the love for this thing, not of the opinion about this thing.
So « Comment trouvez- vous .... » is asking for your opinion = "how do you find .... "
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How do you find my new glasses works in English too. Can also be used of people as in how do you find the new geography teacher.
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Yes, "how do you find my new glasses?" seems a completely acceptable English translation of the French. Standard English and close to the French. More Duo-isms.
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"How do you find..." is completely accurate and acceptable English, in this context. "How do you find the wine?" "I find that it is perfectly delicious."