Consider this sentence:

> でもだからこそ強くなれたし、短期留学じゃ経験できなかったような多くのリアルな留学が経験できた。

Someone I asked translated this as:

"But that is why I was able to become strong and had a lot of experience
through my realistic overseas study **that** would not be possible in a short-
term study program."

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I don't understand how ような is translated as "`that` would not be possible"

I've learnt that ような is used to express likeness or similarity. For example:

> 彼は私が想像していたような人ではなかった。He is not the person "like" I imagined

It wouldn't make sense if I use ような as "like" in the first sentence:

I read

> 短期留学じゃ経験できなかったような多くのリアルな留学が経験できた。

as:

"...and had a lot of realistic experiences studying abroad "like" I can't
experience when studying short-term abroad."

I know this sentence also wouldn't make sense for the same reasons:

> 実行できないような脅しはするな。Never make threats "that" you cannot carry out.

Is there another use for ような other than "like"? Can someone please explain
this grammatical rule to me?
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Can someone explain how ような is used in this sentence?
It might help to think of it as "I had experiences that were not like ones I
would have had on a shorter exchange." In this case you can see that ような still
has the meaning of "like", and not of "that".

Even 実行できないような脅しはするな could be thought of as "never make threats like ones you
can't go through with".

I would avoid trying to make ような translate to "that" since it really is
expressing likeness in any case I can think of.
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> 「短期留学{たんきりゅうがく}じゃ経験{けいけん}できなかった **ような** 多{おお}くのリアルな留学{りゅうがく}が経験{けいけん}できた。」

This sentence is in the following construct:

> 「Phrase (often a mini-sentence) + **ような** + Noun/Noun Phrase」

which means:

> " ** _the kind/type of_** (noun/noun phrase) **_that_** (phrase/mini-
> sentence)"

If you thought that 「ような」 used in a sentence pattern as the above could neatly
be translated into a single English word, that would **_not_** be the case.
Translation between two unrelated languages does not work like that.

> I've learnt that ような is used to express likeness or similarity.

Precisely. The sentence pattern above expresses exactly that. You are talking
about a matter turning out to be **_similar or unsimilar_** to what you had
expected/heard/imagined, etc. Thus, the TL by your someone is actually quite
valid. It succeeds in capturing the intended meaning of the original.

(And "like" is so much related to "similar/unsimilar", isn't it? "Like" is a
good word in explaining what 「ような」 means. Whether or not "like" can be used
all by itself in the translation, however, is a completely different matter.)

Using my own explanation above, my TL would look like this:

> "That, however, is why I was able to become a stronger person and was able
> to have **_the many types of_** "real" study-abroad experiences **_that_** I
> would not have been able to in a short-term study-abroad program.

Finally, let us use my "the kind/type of ~~ that ~~" construct in translating:

> 「実行{じっこう}できないような脅{おど}しはするな。」

My own TL of that would naturally be:

> "Never make **_the kinds of_** threats **_that_** you could not carry out!"
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