The REASON Google Translate FAILS at Japanese 

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Puppy ramen? I’m in!

Hi Chris!

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Hi

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Ahh I was waiting for this comment! 🤣

I was genuinely confused by this haha

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Nobody's perfect

Exactly! This has been the bane of my existence for the 20 years I’ve lived in Japan. Luckily for me I work in schools here...so everyone is just, “SENSEI”.

Yes yes yes! At my school it was so hard to remember 500 names to use instead of pronouns ahhhhh impossible. :'(

Aeneas Yeah, I tried to remember students’ names for the first couple of years...and then realized the futility of that and just basically gave up. Where were you teaching, btw?

With all the Kanji and having to remember people's names, Japanese has proven to be an excelent exercise for memory.

You've just got to use their name until you remember it.

Probably because the kanji for food used in the sentence above "飯" is also the kanji used for rice "ご飯".

@@user-qx1om2wj1h Well, yes, but if anything, it should be "rice of United States" (or even of America), not "United States of rice"... That's a country, like the United Kingdom of Fish and Chips.

@@alloymetal7861 either way it would sound strange and I don't get why they change America to the united states when it wasn't necessary. maybe Google is just trolling?😆

Could be worse... Imagine what it would do with 米国のご飯.

This almost made me spit out my water LOL

ur here??? wtf

Woah, almost like a crossover episode!

I don't understand what I'm saying!

Yes, puppy Ramen on pork week unpleasant very much yes.

Great chemical video with great chemical content. Two stars

Legit thought he/they yelled back to the elderly.

hahahahha

Big mood 😂😂

Well angry is a mood, so it's literally a mood lol

tbh, that could easily be an untranslated 1-star review by a native english speaker.

My Japanese students used to use it to cheat on their English homework. The results were horrendous.

@@AbroadinJapan Any chance on making a video reacting to those results?

@@AbroadinJapan PLEASE make a video about that! 😂

Abroad in Japan I teach ESL to Spanish speaking students. Since I run essays and projects through a program to detect plagiarism, one of my students got creative and plagiarized a Spanish document by running it through Google translate. First of all, I know my students and it just sounded “too good.” Second, even though Google translate is great for Spanish/English, it is not perfect. The mistakes made me suspicious that it was a literal translation. So I reversed the translation back to Spanish thanks to Google and a brief search brought up the original article. I was so upset, not only because of the attempt to plagiarize, but because it was one more thing I had to worry about when grading papers.

@@favforsue geez that sounds awful!!!

hahahah definately Ill say it with an excited voice like an anime character too cant wait to see people's reactions

Now that i think about it is kinda cute tough lol

Hey if Full Stomach is not an achivement then i don't know what it would be.

Digestor at Maximum Capacity.

When you described it, the first thing that came to my mind was a Pug. Maybe Google likes dogs so it chose puppy.

Because who can tolerate ramen without small noses in it?

does anyone want Flat face with a small nose ramen?

Natural. Google Translate works on analysing languages like ciphers, and has no understanding. Thus, it can only look at large datasets and get out an answer. If a word is used in a common meaning, and the second meaning is very rarely used. it is very normal for this to happen

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@@AbroadinJapan 😄😄😄😄

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Lol

Yes David was a strange one wasn’t he

lmaooo

lmaoo

Wow, you might owned mount Everest if you go there XD

For when you are REALLY hungry... ... MOUNTAIN DISH! Has a lot of minerals too! xDDD

@@Angel-wo8gv And for only $5.99

Some people who speak only broken english can only understand like english talked like their native language. "Our car" can be "we car" etc.. But yeah if you speak a language well your brain kinda switches.

As a native Polish & English speaker and intermediate Japanese learner - it's so much easier learning Japanese via Polish. Polish is really flexible with SVO/SOV you can even do VSO with correct word aspects etc. It might sound bit odd, but you can make it grammatically correct. Plus, Polish let's you imply the subject by modifying words, which something Japanese does a lot, it's not that there's no subject in Japanese. A lot of languages do that actually, English is probably unusual in being rather strict. I just learned to try to force the English parts of my brain off and things go so much more smoothly. I think English's grammatical simplicity makes it a lot easier to pick up - at the cost of making it rather inflexible.

Aah... amateur.

That's kinda creepy saying that sentence is acting like machine not like human being

Prypiat 0 Not creepy. It’s super Krispy and Cool.

Sounds like a finishing move once you're done eating.

Seems like a pretty sticky thing to do.

That bothered me too

Literally just about to comment this lol.

I think the door slamming shut was supposed to indicate that they were walking into the store afterwards. But I dunno why the sign would be on the outside...

@@evanever I think the footage was of a shopkeeper coming inside and opening his shop for the day

How else do you expect a charming British guy to receive hate mail. He leaves his closed imaginary restaurant open for criticism.

Breaking teeth on gummy candy will never make perfect sense.

Yes

Thhhpinal

I first thought it is a re zero reference

Legitimate question ive learning hiragana and katakana but to understand the kanji how since there are so many symbols that stand for objects it would take forever to learn. Ive seen then use in phrases or sentence in conjunction two and I slow am able to translate it(still new I translate writeing thing down in my japanese notebook) but the kanji I can't figure out any tips or tricks going forward I would be in Japan learning but the gap year where I would learn the lauguage and the culture got stopped by corona sooo..... That isn't happening

I gonna laugh to death on this one 😂🤣🤣

_DECEARING EGG_

It's not just Japanese, basically most languages have the same issue with Google translate. I use it a lot to translate Arabic and it's miserable; especially, when it comes to sentences.

its because google is bad at english too.

Fun fact: Japanese egg cakes ( _tamago_ 玉子) literally means 'corn' in Chinese ('玉'; '子' in Chinese is meaningless when used immediately after '玉', but on it's own can mean 'son')

I though I was the only person this happened to! I try to remember some basic Spanish words I learned back in middle school, but my brain wants to say it in Japanese.

i suck at many languages, but i like etymology. i like to try and understand abit of the thoughtprocesses and associations of the foreign mind behind the language. now, that is facinating to me . .. however, i tend to not care that much about grammar and being specific. i talk like caveman. person primitive utterance it is!

@@scintillam_dei En efecto, la fonética es casi idéntica, se pueden decir palabras de un idioma al otro y entenderlas debido a la alta similitud en fonética. A diferencia de algunos angloparlantes que meten fonética angloparlante al idioma japonés entonces escucharíamos algunos horrores... Por ejemplo "Miyamoto" les sonaría algo asi como "Meejamoutou".

@@scintillam_dei it blew my mind when I found out anata means anta in Arabic, my only problem is that masu sounds a lot like the word for sucking in Arabic, but I'm also over that

The drawer metaphor is excellent. I learned English without using translation at any point, and I effectively have two separate departments - one for English, another for my native language. I'm terrible at translation, if one drawer is open I have no idea what the word in the closed drawer would be. I have to kind of pull back until I only see the full image/context/situation, and then use the other language to describe it. It's very hard to translate on a word-by-word level. I couldn't do it at all, until I had to start helping my wife learning my language, so I'm slightly better at translation now, but only a bit. The mixed-up drawers for languages you aren't fully confident in is also spot on. It happens to me with Japanese and another language.. both ways. When I want one, the other pops up at the same time.

Lolz, well at least there wasn't any negativity involved....

Reminds me of 'fairy' in Japanese (妖精) literally meaning "demon spirit" in Chinese (妖精). Think examples of these feed into opinions/arguments etc that I've heard of others calling Japanese a 'b*****disation' of Chinese

@@lzh4950 Don’t you mean a Let’sStanddisation if Chinese?

Im proud to be a normal bastard.

At least bing was honest...

I've known Ryotaro 5 years and there's barely been a day he hasn't whipped out his beloved drawer metaphor mid conversation.

@@AbroadinJapan So you're right on point with his obsession with drawers

@@AbroadinJapan It seems like trilingual people talk about how theyre trilingual more than the other languages they speak cause I have a friend who does the same thing

@@AbroadinJapan 5 years of this wisdom and you told us just now?

GroundHawg465 I think mentioning that I’m trilingual to people in English is more effective than writing a comment in a language the majority of the channel’s viewers don’t understand. But yeah, we do mention it when it’s relevant.

Smile and wave boys

Said the actress to the bishop

I want that on my TShirt

I may have spat a bit at my screen laughing at this.

please tell me you eventually asked them

@@adam_kano and we never heard of him again.. hope the family tossing ended well.

these days it translates to "thank you" on google translate

どうぞよろしく！

Surely not as genius as prerecorded Ryotato appearing in the corner of the screen and saying "amateur".

I mean.... Japanese sounds easier than the absolute garbage on fire which is the English language. I am from asia so Japanese has lots of similarities in word placement compared to my first language. But english, ohh man.

To add to my reply, english moves around the words so much. I know everyone that only knows english thinks that word placement in a sentence is normal but why have “I went to the toilet because I needed to pee” instead of “needed pee so went toilet”?

@@sungibatman1996 Different languages have different word order, wtf is even that complaint lol. But wonder how'd you like learning russian, which doesn't have any word order and you're allowed to do whatever you want. Also, it's "dumpster fire" :)

@@sungibatman1996 yeah if you already know an Asian language Japanese will obviously be easier since its significantly more similar to your own language than English, which isn't an asian language

Abroad in England you say

Last time i was this quick was with my girlfriend... Probably why she left me

I was expecting Chad from Seattle, but I guess Dave would do

@@truepotential206 i8í

Holy cow dude Dave in Japan just liked your comment!

Honestly in the restaurant business we take most online reviews as absolute jokes. Unfortunately some people still hold overall ratings in high regards though.

Right? Someone had a good meal. 3 stars...what? Were they expecting a stage performance and a wire act to push that up to 4-5 stars or something? You're buying a meal not doing a film review.

Mad Hatters in jeans My personal favorite review I ever got was a one star review that said “best Mac n cheese I ever had.” So I joked that while it was the best they ever had, they happen to really hate Mac n cheese lol

​@@Madhattersinjeans I think it's better off this way. While we are willing to give 5 stars if nothing "bad" happens, they give 3 stars on average. And if their experience is beyond their expectations, they give more. I mean giving 5 stars should be a big deal, right? It's the maximum appreciation you can give to a restaurant. So it's acceptable for someone that just had a good meal to give 3 stars if that's what they expected, nothing more, nothing less. Also you should take into account that there are plenty of additional factors other than the quality of food affecting their opinions.

If you leave a 5 star review, they'll probably print it out & hang it on the wall.

I immediately thought it must be a massage parlor clerk cross-training.

Or arrogant

Pretentious, Uppity, Primadonna.

This makes sense

Gay

It's more that the type of people who bother to leave to reviews are almost universally hyper critical and Karens in training.

@@aartadventure Exactly this. I'm sure it's mostly universal, few people leave a positive review unless their experience was really exceptional, but, people will leave a negative review if even the smallest thing was wrong. This can really make a mess of review systems, rather recently the Steam Store tried to combat this by displaying a 'Would you recommend this game? [Yes] [No]' box whenever you go to start the game, forcing more users to leave a simple review and correct the skewed reviews for sometimes very good products. :)

It's true. I work in Japan and get this shit all the time. I had to profusely apologize for another companies "mistake." In the end our reputation was damaged because earlier that week in a different city, a different company pissed the customer off. Somehow that was our fault and we get a bad review and our reputation is permanently damaged.

"some crazy obaasan yelled at me" Well, sure. She was offended because you didn't call her "obasan". tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ObaSan

@@mikeshoults4155 oh wow that sucks....

*Risottaro

So much for "favour going forward." 🤣

He should host an American talk show, he's a natural.

そうですか？この和文を分かれて書けますか？ 笑み

Same

Ey saaaame

I took sticky notes, placed them around the house on items like the bookshelf (hondana), lamp (ranpu), etc. w their phonetic spelling and Kanji. If I'm ever lost in Japan I can now ask for water(Mizu). 😁

Yes please!

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Mhm

More like the reason behind why there are so many strange English sentences on Japanese merch.

Can't stand it when people give 5 stars to restaurants that provided decent service lol. To me, 3/5 = decent, 4/5 = amazing, 5/5 = unmatched

Weird, I default to five stars and take away points as needed. 5/5 Great! No complaints. 4/5 Pretty good. I’ll come back. 3/5 Fine. I was fed. 2/5 Unpleasant. Bad times. 1/5 Fucking garbage. 0/5 Call the authorities immediately.

Nancy Sheep Love that last one 🤣

@@cin3859 I have the same mentality, but it's just a matter of perspective, expectations, optimism/ pessimism. Some people go in delighted already and something bad has to happen to make their experience worse. Others go in to be made happy and with high expectations and a miracle has to happen, to lighten up their perception. I don't wanna talk down the latter option (I even have a very close friend who's pretty much like this), but I think the optimistic way is definetly more fun :D Have a nice day everyone :)

@@assassinaria i just give 1 regardless of how good it was

That's how it's done in Japan

Because it's open

Plot twist, the footage was reversed

Ok ? Lol really weirdly non important bill to die on.

Hill*

Exactly 🎰

How badly did they want to create puppy ramen? Guess we will never know

Ikr they are disliking their translation

Extra Japanese lessons yes

No. The dislikes are from SJW's, as Chris just advised people to avoid using pronouns.

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Ahhh YES!!! that's a Tenth Doctor reference?! Ahhh I love Doctor Who!!

the long-term existence of engrish.com is a testament to that!

Or opening drawers 😄

It's an old joke that has been recycled to death....just fucking let it die already. You're not being cleaver by using it, social lemming.

Pranav Kameshwar probably used google translation 😂

@@2fat2furiouz Ha! 😄

perks of being British

Who is also reasonably priced.

You have to consider though the fact that the most common reviewing platform for restaurants, in Japan, is Tabelog: there, the highest scores are reserved for the finest dining experiences. For a casual lunch, three and a half stars is absolutely not that bad.

Ikr like they make no sense still lol The ones less than 3 barely described exactly why it was bad they just said it was bad Like the “terrible, staff tried to be cool” like what??

@@V.U.4six Yeah, I didn't understand that one either. Does it mean that the employees were snobby?

@@ontheroadtechno I still think even if the number of stars makes sense, you should still say something about the restaurant and not a probably unrelated incident.

@@hexyko4850 Once when I was a teenager I went to Pizza Hut with some friends, and some waiter was trying to act cool by making sex jokes with us like we were friends. I'm very reserved so that was definitely an unpleasant experience. Maybe it was something similar?

underrated comment ^

I always felt like he was trying to say “just is delicious.” If I remember, he was asked to describe the food in one word, and “delicious” seemed to me like the word he was working towards. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Google translate: *dies* translating it into Japanese

Call Reed, he might accompany Parker.

Omg that ckacked me! :DDDD :D :D :D

It’s almost like we could have taken the whole day off!

reverse psychology

Wait until you learn the word 気... THEY USE IT FOR EVERYTHING I HATE IT!

@@hanyuu8672 気になった。

@@hanyuu8672 what does that word mean?

@@aditichawla8606 energy/spirit/vigor/atmosphere

@@aditichawla8606 energy/spirit/vigor/atmosphere

Kevin was a gem

this but unironically

Japanese works very differently. I'd say you actually have more words in a Japanese sentence than in an English one, but many of the are completely untranslatable. They are meant to show what the subject and them object of the sentence are. So if you would say: "dogs like bones", it would be :"Inu wa hone ga suki desu" "Wa" says that "Inu/dog" is the subject "Ga" means that "hone/bones" is the object These words often make other words redundant. If you say "like apples" it makes no sense, but if you say in Japanese "apples GA like" it means that the apples are liked by someone, probably the speaker.

@@cassif19 bro... It's a joke from the office...

to be honest kanji is like a huge compilation of symbols, just like emojis in your phone

I was also thinking of peacocking or poser. Cringey or extra could also work. There's more you could use depending on what type was actually implied 🤔 I think he's been in Japan for so long he's now out of the loop of things 😂

Isn't "flexing" colloquial for "showing off"?

@@ThePandafriend "showing off" is essentially "trying to make oneself look cool" but using less words

Primping, preening, posing, boasting

Or just tryhard

😂

Brilliant

Best comment

Good catch "What a shame it become non-smoking. Somehow I'm no longer hungry!"

Short answer is, in polite conversation with strangers, don't ever use pronouns. Names only.

@@AkiAmeko If they're a stranger, how would you know their name?

@@IanCunningham92 you get their attention by apologizing and asking if you may ask them something

@@IanCunningham92 In a brief conversation I assume you can communicate without pronouns entirely because you can drop that from Japanese sentences entirely and both parties know the context most of the time. When introducing yourself to someone for the first time, like a business meeting or a new friend at the bar, it's customary to ask their name asap. (Although anyone who knows Japanese better than I is free to correct me.)

I may not be correct, but what I heard was: Omae = comes of as rude, maybe if you want to be threatening or start a fight. Anata = A close person? Or just the most common? I heard that using it too much can sound robotic, however.

So.. Natsuki then.

You mean, sticky clerk?

if you want to use "to be" in English, the adjective form of チャラつく is チャラい charai

R Lee Oh cool, thanks! I’m only just starting to learn the adjective forms so all i know so far are the -い and -くない forms

@@JohnPorsbjerg チャラい is the adjective but チャラ付き would be the noun I believe

Remember, when he is being evil he is using his alter ego, Risotaro.

Observe. He didn't blink even once during the time he was smiling. Clearly a serial killer. Jk.

Oh god these drawers. Help mee

Machine translation can work, but it requires a whole lot of fucking around with each sentence Google spits out in order to get it right. Sites like Jisho help a ton, and so does running the original text through 6 or 7 different machine translations, and interpreting all of those into something readable.

Japanese translators unite! Can I ask you what you work for, exactly? I'm a freelancer translator, but ever since the pandemic started I haven't had a single request for translation.

@@TwilightWolf032 I wanna be a translator myself. I'm half Japanese and I've studied both languages since I was very small. Can you tell me how you started your career? Also do you have another Job?

Nani?!

@@Shanaoh I started my career thanks to a friend of mine, who saw an ad from Abracadabra Games looking for part-timer translators. I sent an e-mail, they sent a reply en mass to all applicants saying they would make a selection and return only to the chosen ones. About a month and half passed and I hadn't received anything, so I sent them another e-mail asking if there was any chance for me or if they could point me towards other companies. They must have liked my assertiveness, because they decided to send me a test, which I passed, and then I spent the following 12 months working on various games in both English and Portuguese. (By the way, don't play Love Gossip, the main character is the worst and the writing is terrible! Love in the Skies is great, though!) Now, Abracadabra had an... internal turmoil... and the person who was carrying the company on their backs left due to health issues, and many games that were ready to be published had to be postponed. It's possible all my translated works have been delayed or cancelled, including Love in the Skies, which was the first title I translated for them, and all routes by myself... you can imagine I'm not happy with that, because that's most of my portfolio. I've taken other jobs, including a request for terms and guidebooks that were supposed to be used in 2020 Tokyo's Olympic Games (that was another headache I'd rather forget about), but recently requests have been down thanks to China's virus. If you want to start your translation career, go after companies yourself and offer your services. Keep an eye out for announcements and work on fan translations of anything you come across to start a portfolio you can show off. As for my side job, I do work as a digital artist on Pixiv. Just search for Ryuugamine Ryuuto on MangaDex for my stories (warning: what isn't a doujinshi is lewd stuff) and 竜ヶ峰竜人 on Pixiv for my illustrations (warning: there's porn). I gain a bit of change here and there for commissions and a very small number of subscribers on SubscribeStar, so translation is still my main gig. My plan is to get enough subscribers to make a living out of my art and stories, but that's going to take years at this pace. In the meantime, I keep working on translations.

Yes comrade! I salute you! I as well..am comrade.

is you glad?

You used a pronoun though 😏

Slim shady was trying to teach Japanese all this time.

Actually laughed out loud thank you

I just came from Eminem singing anime intros dude

@@chetansingh3219 You wot, link?

If you are fluent in two languages you don't translate between them, meaning is converted to the desired language.

​@@MrMickeei As a non native English speaker, I totally agree(but I'm still not fluent enough)

Honestly that drawer metaphor is surprisingly good. Like as a native English speaker I don't have to construct a sentence in my head, I can just say it. But whenever I've (unsuccessfully) tried to learn a new language, I've got the sentence in English, then I have to construct it in the other language before saying it. Whereas if you're fluent in both languages you can see a sentence, break down the meaning of it abstractly into your head, (sort of like how when you have an idea but don't know how to say it, you've just got this abstract concept of what it means), then say that idea in the other language.

I mean, that's usually the key to be fluent in different languages. When you start studing a new language you usually first think the phrase in your main language, then try to translate it to the new one. But once you get used to the new language you just think on the new language directly. Most of the times this change goes gradually over the time. In japanese it seems that you cant go gradually improving, but you have to be that comfortable in japanese to start thinking only in japanese directly

@@MrMickeei Saying that there is no thought process is a little disingenous. As you can see when asked to translate a phrase like "yoroshiku onegaishimasu", Ryotaro was definitely forced to think about how to express the term in English. I generally agree with the statement, but there can definitely be thinking involved when it comes to deciding how best to convey an idea in a language that doesn't have a built in way to convey the idea.

Yeah, that must be super weird when not used to it.

Well to be fair , not in any sentence. For example , and you probably know this, these are all perfectly fine depending on the situation; Wanna drink ? How bout a pizza? Can’t think of anything now but maybe later. Etc etc In my 25 years of working in Japan, I’d agree with you and say that including subjects is very difficult for Japanese learning English. Other things would be subject-verb agreement, the horrid English spelling “system”, and mastering some of the many many idioms used in daily conversation. My other experience is that many of my non-English majors , especially males, cannot see gaijin as equal to Japanese, at least not until they have lived outside of Japan. It’s become part of my acceptance of Japanese culture that a good many people around me, even my students, regard me as a less-than-equal human. しょうがない

It's called sentence pattern If you're a multi lingual person you will understand.

vice* And it shouldn't be hard at all. English teaching in japan just plain sucks. The amount of shit I've had to correct that "hurdurr native" people taught students is insane

Clarence alteria who are you addressing here ? And are you referring to syntax?

Sometimes that could end up being wrong so I wouldn't totally rely on that.

Doesn’t really mean anything either though. Despite being „community verified“ the translation of the hungarian word „Sör“ (i. e. Beer) has been fucked for weeks. It’s translated to „Row“ (and „Reihe“ in German respectively) but that would be „Sor“, which is translated to row as well. I don’t think there’s necessarily any human involvement in the community verification process.

@@danield.1438 There is actually human involvement in the community verification process. People can either validate translations or translate phrases as a way to contribute in making Google translate better. I'm sure, however, that their would be some who contribute inaccurate contributions.

A Japanese friend is ideal, but “community verified” is right more often than a regular translation

Something to look out for on Google Translate: ❌ Later…