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Foreign music videos subtitled as if they were speaking English

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  1. Petar says:

    First!!

  2. Sean says:

    The New York Rangers end up pissed in tar? I would tend to agree.

  3. wtf says:

    what is funny about false translations?

    • Q says:

      Those are not false translations or translations at all. He made up English sentences that sounded like the vocals in the song which wasn’t even in English.

    • Kismet says:

      Cause it, indeed, does sound like some pretty funny shit if you try to interpret it into english words by mnemonics alone. come on…. It sounded dead ON on some of the spots…. Porcelain is the surest plan! Indians are hiiiiiiiiighhhhhhh…… rofl..

      • RoDude says:

        Aha!!!! Well it’s still funnier in Engrish!

      • Q says:

        Actually (watching it for a second time) I just thought “pussy is the surest plan” sounds more like it.

        • ipick@urmom.com says:

          that’s just ’cause you’re a perv.

        • audball says:

          I would have to disagree…

          It just sounds like “porcelain”…in my opinion (therefore, this is not a final ultimatum or anything) there’s not really any other word that fits there.

          However, the “look at this ladle” is a bit of a stretch. It sounds like 3 “hey”s, not 2 and “look”. (”Somebody, hey, hey, hey this ladle…”)

      • Psychedelic says:

        I know what the Indians are high on, but why is it that porcelain is the surest plan, exactly? Oh, wait, nevermind — I see, it’s for the next day when dealing with the hangover from being high. Makes perfect sense…

    • moi says:

      eh it’s funny to watch your german parent laugh at the whole made up words thing. moskau by Dschinghis khan, gave my mom a time trip back to when thaat stuff was cool…

  4. Flippy says:

    Moskau, Moskau! Wirf die Gläser an die Wand! Russland ist ein schönes Land!
    Ho ho ho ho ho hey!

    Moskau, Moskau! Deine Seele ist so groĂź! Nachts da ist der Teufel los!
    Ho ho ho ho ho hey!

  5. wtf says:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUCnvA9Jl-U

    Lyrics:

    Moscow, queen of the russian land,
    Built like a rock to stand, proud and divine.
    Moscow, your golden towers glow,
    Even through ice and snow, sparkling they shine.

    And every night, night, night, there is music,
    Oh, every night, night, night, there is love.
    And every night, night, night, there is laughter,
    Here’s to you brother, hey, brother, ho!
    Hey, hey, hey, hey!

    Moscow, Moscow, throw your glasses at the wall,
    And good fortune to us all, ho-ho-ho-ho-ho, hey!
    Moscow, Moscow, join us for a casatchok,
    We’ll go dancing round the clock, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, hey!
    Moscow, Moscow, drinking Vodka all night long,
    Keeps you happy, makes you strong, ho-ho-ho-ho-ho, hey!
    Moscow, Moscow, come and have a drink and then,
    You will never leave again, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Hey!

  6. Nuck Chorris says:

    Understanding German FAIL!

  7. Kismet says:

    ROFLMFAO!! I’m sure I’ve seen something funnier, but I really can’t think of it right now… ;)

    • krimz says:

      Was it the rick rolled sub-titled video? Where they do the same thing and put funny sub0titles onto his song :P Somebody actually sings the incorrect words over it so funny!

    • Sir Scarfalot says:

      just leave it to the germans… they are SERIOUS about these things.

      Damn good subtitling job, you just have to respect that. :D

  8. hunter says:

    is that russian or german
    it sounds like russian

  9. Q says:

    I thought it was Russian at first because I thought they were singing about Moscow…

  10. Reinis says:

    Buffalax’s jokes are made of infantile and unfunny.

  11. ChuckEB says:

    Moscow in Russian is Moskva…

  12. El Rag says:

    just the fact the english sentences dont sound at all like the englisch “translation” ones makes it less funny :/

  13. Sir Gallivant says:

    Moskau
    Fremd und geheimnisvoll
    TĂĽrme aus rotem Gold
    Kalt wie das Eis
    Moskau
    Doch wer dich wirklich kennt
    Der weiĂź, ein Feuer brennt
    In dir so heiĂź

    Kosaken hey hey hey hebt die Gläser
    Natascha ha ha ha du bist schön
    Towarisch hey hey hey auf das Leben
    Auf Dein Wohl Bruder hey Bruder ho

    Moskau, Moskau
    Wirf die Gläser an die Wand
    Russland ist ein schönes Land
    Ho ho ho ho ho, hey
    Moskau, Moskau
    Deine Seele ist so groĂź
    Nachts da ist der Teufel los
    Ha ha ha ha ha, hey
    Moskau, Moskau
    Liebe schmeckt wie Kaviar
    Mädchen sind zum küssen da
    Ho ho ho ho ho, hey
    Moskau, Moskau
    Komm wir tanzen auf dem Tisch
    Bis der Tisch zusammenbricht
    Ha ha ha ha ha

    Moskau
    Tor zur Vergangenheit
    Spiegel der Zarenzeit
    Rot wie das Blut
    Moskau
    Wer deine Seele kennt
    Der weiĂź, die Liebe brennt
    HeiĂź wie die Glut

    Kosaken hey hey hey hebt die Gläser
    Natascha ha ha ha du bist schön
    Towarisch hey hey hey auf die Liebe
    Auf Dein Wohl Mädchen hey Mädchen ho

    Moskau, Moskau
    Wirf die Gläser an die Wand
    Russland ist ein schönes Land
    Ho ho ho ho ho, hey
    Moskau, Moskau
    Deine Seele ist so groĂź
    Nachts da ist der Teufel los
    Ha ha ha ha ha, hey
    Moskau
    Lala lala lala la, lala lala lala la
    Ho ho ho ho ho, hey
    Moskau, Moskau Lala lala lala la, lala lala lala la
    Ha ha ha ha ha
    Oh, oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
    Moskau, Moskau

    Moskau, Moskau
    Wodka trinkt man pur und kalt
    Das macht hundert Jahre alt
    ha ha ha ha ha, hey
    Moskau, Moskau
    Väterchen dein Glas ist leer
    Doch im Keller ist noch mehr
    Ha ha ha ha ha

    Moskau, Moskau
    Liebe schmeckt wie Kaviar
    Mädchen sind zum küssen da
    Ha ha ha ha ha
    Moskau, Moskau
    Komm wir tanzen auf dem Tisch
    Bis der Tisch zusammenbricht
    Ha ha ha ha ha, hey!

    • Hahahahahahay says:

      Moscow
      Strangely and mysteriously
      Towers from red gold
      Coldly like the ice
      Moscow
      But who really knows you
      White, a fire burns In you so hot
      Kosaken hey hey hey lifts the glasses
      Natascha ha ha ha you is beautiful
      Towarisch hey hey hey on the life
      On your well-being brother hey brother ho
      Moscow, Moscow
      Throw the glasses to the wall
      Russia is a beautiful country
      Ho ho ho ho ho, hey
      Moscow, Moscow
      Your soul is so large
      The devil is the matter at night there
      Ha ha ha ha ha, hey
      Moscow, Moscow
      Love tastes like caviar
      Girls are to kiss there
      Ho ho ho ho ho, hey
      Moscow, Moscow
      Come we dance on the table
      Until the table breaks down
      Ha ha ha ha ha
      Moscow
      Gate to the past
      Mirror of the Zarenzeit
      Red like the blood
      Moscow
      Who knows your soul
      White, the love burns
      Hot like the glow
      Kosaken hey hey hey lifts the glasses
      Natascha
      ha ha ha you is beautiful
      Towarisch hey hey hey on the love
      On your well-being girl hey girls ho
      Moscow, Moscow
      Throw the glasses to the wall
      Russia is a beautiful country
      Ho ho ho ho ho, hey
      Moscow, Moscow
      Your soul is so large
      The devil is the matter at night there
      Ha ha ha ha ha, hey Moscow
      Lala lala lala la, lala lala lala la
      Ho ho ho ho ho, hey
      Moscow, Moscow
      Lala lala lala la, lala lala lala la ha ha ha ha ha
      Oh, oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
      Moscow, Moscow
      Moscow, Moscow
      One drinks vodka purely and coldly
      That makes one hundred years old
      ha ha ha ha ha, hey
      Moscow, Moscow
      Väterchen your glass is empty
      But in the cellar is still more
      Ha ha ha ha ha
      Moscow, Moscow
      Love tastes like caviar
      Girls are to kiss there
      Ha ha ha ha ha
      Moscow, Moscow
      Come we dance on the table
      Until the table breaks down Ha ha ha ha ha, hey!

    • Shalindria says:

      Thanks for the nap

    • Sir Scarfalot says:

      hey, a fellow knight! awesome! *gives secret sign secretly*

  14. artisanrox says:

    Sorry, this isn’t funny, the song is actually pretty cool in German. The pictures of signs with all the random weird sentences on them are much funnier.

  15. dave41 says:

    I’m pretty sure the dude in green is 80’s magician Doug Henning ;)

  16. karly_in_a_box says:

    “Somebody, hey, hey, look at this ladel!”

    Classic! I have to download that one now! *goes off singing* “porcelain is the best plan…”

  17. Nelly says:

    I suggest a youtube search for Buffalaxed. His videos are hilarious. My personal fave is the first result… I think it’s called Benny Lava or something.

    Hilarity.

  18. KaBooM says:

    Sorry. It was sorta funny. And the fact that what he “translated” sounded like what they were saying added to it. You fuckers need to relax, take your head out of your asses, and let other people have their own opinion.

  19. hoseja says:

    MOSKAU!! The Rammstein song is better though…

  20. Cecona says:

    It made me laugh. I dont care what language it is, I dont care if the translations are fake or not, it made me laugh and I liked it.

  21. lindz says:

    ok, it is funny when you look at it from the english perspective. also the outfits, they remind me of some sort of weird power ranger-ish getup.

  22. wildemar says:

    The funny thing is: Even though I’m German I have trouble hearing the correct lyrics, esp. when reading the “translation” along with it.

    Neat tune, btw.

  23. EK says:

    A little funney, but just a little. It’s so old and heard so many times it doesn’t really have that “wow”-factor that theese kind of vids need. But a good shot, though, I give it that.

    • Psychedelic says:

      I suppose it’s old in places where people commonly sing disco songs in German about Moscow. Yeah, I guess I can see that…(????!)

      • Somebody Else says:

        This song was a contestant in the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest, and the utter wierdness of the entire act made it famous. So, yeah, the place where people commonly know about German disco songs about Moscow would be the entirety of Europe.

  24. Tiaz says:

    They are singing in german about Moskau

  25. Kismet says:

    Come on, guys… after learning as much as I could about this group, I think even they would laugh at this. It’s pretty rad. ^_^

  26. Peaches says:

    Ok I’m kind of sad to learn this guy does bad translations on purpose. To me it was funnier when I thought he’d made a mistake … I thought it should have been a translation fail. But the whole thing is so darn funny I can’t stop watching it!

    • palsyboy says:

      He’s doing something called mondegreens. Look them up at Wikipedia. The only fail involved is when you can’t figure out Buffalax’s intent.

  27. amoK says:

    in sovjet russia, song translates YOU!

  28. dustbunni says:

    I LOL’ed at this. It’s their enthusiastic faces paired with the engrish subtitles that really got me. And the sentences were just awesome, I love random sh*t! “rangers pissed in tar” will live on in my mind.

    • Wolverine Girl says:

      I love that line. But my favourite bit is “Come and dance and love the fish, Mr Disco summoned it”

    • somebody says:

      I especially like the look on the face of the lady in red during “Don’t worry, Bill is dead”. You expect the next line to be “because I killed him and buried him in the backyard”.

  29. JSS says:

    Some of you guys take this sh*t way too seriously…it’s FUNNY! Good grief…and anyone who thinks Romanian sounds like SPANISH?! Aye Dios mio……

    • Banana says:

      Well, they both are Romance languages so they are going to sound a little bit similar. Romanian and Spanish sound similar they way French and Spanish do.

    • toxicity says:

      Well actually romanian is similar to spanish. I´m german born in Romania and my mother speaks romanian. One day we were on Holiday in Norway, wanted to buy a book in a museum and there was neither an english nor a german book available, so my mother bought the spanish one and she could almost translate everything, without knowing spanish prior.

  30. Boes says:

    Awesome.. I only realised it was german when I stopped watching :)
    Couldn’t make everything out though, and my german is not that bad..

  31. Melinda says:

    Re: my previous comment, *Doug Henning* has been dead for years…and I thought the vid was funny, loved the fabulous outfits and the catchy “Hahahahahah!” all over the song. “Respect the caviar,” indeed.

  32. tecci says:

    those subtitles are hurting my eyes!
    should be moved to failblog for the worst misheard lyrics ever

    • TurdFerguson says:

      How do you not hear it? I’m not trying to be mean at this point. Can you seriously not hear the translation? It’s not 100% but damn near.

  33. cakeislie says:

    Reminds me of Yatta!

  34. sillyrussiangoose says:

    That was amazing!
    LOL

  35. missnostalgiaireland08 says:

    Wow this brought me back to a huge marquee outside Regensburg and a mullety man called Wolfgang who took a shine to me and my interrailing friends, September 2001: an intercultural baptism of incomprehensible Bayrische wierdness

  36. Roc says:

    Har har….the good old mondegreen…

  37. Annoyed says:

    This guy Buffalax who made the “subtitles” is just a plain retard. Somebody hasn’t learned german in school obviously.

    Pathetic.

  38. Pikelness says:

    That was the best.. lol =)

  39. lmao says:

    The guy in green looks like Murderface! XD!

  40. nik says:

    Volga, Volga, rakkaus tai kuolema, pelkoa ja vainoa..

  41. chimpsmirk says:

    My god, I think that turned me queer!!

  42. Hydra says:

    I DON’T CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS, THIS MADE ME LOL

  43. audball says:

    Okay, I literally laughed so hard I was crying. I LOVED it!!! Funniest thing I’ve seen in quite a while.

  44. William Wallace says:

    Cleverly Translated. The reason you hear these words is because of mental priming. Michael Shermer explained it during a TEDtalk. See it at youtube.com/tedtalksdirector. He was talking about backwards playing audio but its the same theory.

  45. martin says:

    Not in English to!

    These kind of subtitles was very popular in Sweden around year 2000 (they where called “turkhits” because Turkish sounds like Swedish, but almost no Swede understands it (English and German also sounds like Swedish, but all Swedes understand English and German, hence it’s not funny). You won’t think they are funny anymore when you have experienced a couple of hundred of them.

    Hopefully the English lack of phonemes will make them harder to make.

    • I am pretty sure English does not lack phonemes. (Phonemes = smallest contrastive units in the sound system of a language.) All languages have them.

      • Somebody Else says:

        English has an above-average number of phonemes, but the Scandinavian languages have more. Well, with the possible exception of Danish. Nobody seems to know what phonemes Danish has, not even the Danish, but that is probably because Danish has less of a standard pronunciation and more of a lethal throat disorder.

        However, the English comparative lack of phonemes is probably only gonna make it easier to make more of these, since sounds have fewer possible mappings.

  46. Feles says:

    Moskau = possibly greatest song ever.

  47. Wolfram says:

    i’ve been waiting for this to be posted. Well, the Moskau video on its own, not the reverse engrish. Sad i actually BOUGHT the album this was on.

  48. toribug says:

    lol
    its kinda catchy

  49. asdf-man says:

    wouldn’t be so funny if the language in the song akshully were russian…
    because german and english are sounding quite similar…

    great song for partys btw :D

    UND WIEDERMAL BIN ICH ERSTAUNT WIEVIELE HIER DEUTSCH REDEN :D

    did u know about 60% of the americans say their roots are in germany..?

  50. PynTyn says:

    It’s a shame they didn’t use Benny Lava, but that’s been mentioned I suppose. Should probably stop beating that particular horse.

  51. Aulianas says:

    Sooo….

    How long do you reckon until certain people realize that this is a PARODY and therefore not meant to be an accurate translation of German lyrics, and that it is meant for a specific kind of humor, and that merely because they do not appreciate that specific form, it does not mean that the video is not funny?

    Or am I simply hoping for too much?

  52. Christoball says:

    Hm, Ming ther Merciless and his merry men?

  53. Chels says:

    this is deeply disturbing.

  54. Kat says:

    I love the “lyrics”! Has me giggling. Ok so it’s not the correct translation – I like it any way! Please Respect the Cavair!!!

  55. rkw says:

    Didn’t anyone happen to notice the German inscription on the wall in back and the NDR station logo in the corner of the screen- NordDeutscher Rundfunk- “North German Radio”?

  56. Insider says:

    really cool shit translation

    the text didn’t even fit in one word the original lyric. Well, the original is hilarious, too.
    The original lyric is about celebrating in Moscow.

  57. Missy DeRail says:

    I thought that video was pretty funny!!

  58. Hotjoe says:

    but this is a song about Moscow…since when was Moscow in Germany……

  59. nextbigthing says:

    love it!
    i am german but back when this song was cool i was quite little, and i never understood the refrain. now i know!

    “they’re sucking dick, dick, …”

  60. wouldbekiller says:

    also in soviet russia, greens monde you. plus it’s clear from this historic video that russians invented breakdancing. word to your motherland, beeyotches.

  61. barboid says:

    Some of the ‘lyrics’ are too raunchy for my taste, but this is hysterically funny. I’m trying to figure out the same for carameldansen. To the people who don’t seem to ‘get it’: these are merely english words for what it SOUNDS like they’re saying. Somebody called it mondegreens.

    Oh, and does anyone here have the translation for the pig-farting video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCRYE3qrbkc

  62. dee says:

    this is freakin genius,, I loved it!

  63. Tajiu says:

    Moss cow!

  64. rozlin says:

    the tall guy in the black is HAWT.

  65. Wyde says:

    Best. Music video. EVER.
    That was so catchy, I feel like dancing like them.

  66. Rabin says:

    Wow, just wow.

  67. Halfro says:

    Awwww. Anyone else have feelings of nostalgia at Kefka’s jingle at the end of the video?

  68. wertstahl says:

    I am in shock. So many times i misheard the lyrics to be german. Stupid me! Thanks for clearing this up!!

  69. wow this stupid as hell says:

    thats the stupidest waste of site ive ever seen this stupid shit

  70. wow this stupid as hell says:

    dnt try that rebuttle shit on me ither it wnt work hahahaha

  71. bloody richard says:

    oh my god i almost made wee wee in my pants

  72. Christian Trauntschnig says:

    This translation is vulgar, improper, and deliberate. This translation does not fit in the category of Engrish. Rather, it fits in the category of obscenity and juvenility. Making recordings of one’s friends saying profane things is one issue, but insulting cultures is another. The acts by the maker of the subtitles for this video are a classic example of ethnocentrism. It amazes me that in the United States, “adult content” and “teenage humour” are virtually the same.

  73. Putin says:

    In Soviet Russia, a shit gives noone!

  74. ploxntye says:

    I love the random Kefka music at the end… or something from FFVI

  75. nomnomnom says:

    very catchy.



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