"like" and "to be like" in Mandarin
Like this. 像这样。 xiang4 zhe4yang4.
Like that. 像那样。 xiang4 na4yang4.
Not like that. 不像那样。 bu2 xiang4 na4yang4.
Don't do it like that; do it like this. 别那么做；这么做。 bie2 na4me zuo4; zhe4me zuo4.
We don't say it in Taiwan like they do in China. 我们台湾人说话和中国人说话不一样。 wo3men Tai2wan1ren2 shuo1hua4 he2 zhong1guo2ren2 shuo1hua4 bu4 yi2yang4.
We say it in Taiwan like they do in China. 我们台湾人像中国人一样这么说。 Wo3men Tai2wan1ren2 xiang4 Zhong1guo2ren2 yi2yang4 zhe4me shuo1.
Sally is like her mother. Sally像她母亲。 Sally xiang4 ta1 mu3qin.


Comment: I think when learning languages that have very different origins, at some point, you'd have to give up trying to pair the words one-to-one to another language... Such a strict correspondence usually does not exist. You need to learn the language itself, not just such correspondences.