30 Hilarious Literal Translations Of Phrases In Foreign Languages
Oh, the joys of learning a foreign language – just when you seem to get a firm grip on the basics, it suddenly hits you with phrases that have no direct translation into the English language. And while they might sound like random word salad when translated word-for-word, you quickly realize that some of them are hilariously accurate.
Someone from the Facebook group Monolinguals are the worst asked other members to share some direct translations of common words and phrases in their native languages and the results are absolutely hilarious. Grab some elephant fart and check out the funny translations in the gallery below!
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Thank you so much for this article!
some stuff is hilarious but german appearedfirst, than english, which is a mix of german friesen and dutch and some different local tongues.
thats funny too, germans call it “sprache” or “dialekt” like language or dialect, in english its also called tongue, like the moving thing in your mouth, its like the handshoe thing :-)
Really funny. I think that if you experiment with translators, you can get a lot of funny and strange phrases. For example, I use this translator to translate from Yiddish to English https://www.translate.com/yiddish-english ,I get a fairly accurate translation of the desired text in seconds