The true translation is still worth a chortle though. So with the penguin’s snazzy get-up and all, you could be forgiven for translating its name as “business goose”. The modern Chinese word for “enterprise” (something an entrepreneur would start) is 企業 (qǐyè). To make this English translation of a Chinese word really funny we have to cheat a bit. Business Goose – 企鵝 (qì’é) Image created and owned by author with AI drawing tool That’s why the shrimp’s bouncer-like big cousin, the lobster, is called a dragon shrimp in Chinese. Do you know what isn’t puny? A friggin dragon.
Dragon Shrimp – 龍蝦 (lóngxiā)īeing called a shrimp is a not-so-pleasant way to be called puny. Perhaps that’s why the Chinese word for pineapple is Phoenix pear, a pear rising from the earth just as the mythical Phoenix rises from its ashes. To me they kind of look like the bomb plants in the original Zelda game. They grow directly from the ground surrounded by their leaves, a little like cauliflower.
Phoenix Pear – 鳳梨 (fènglí) Image created and owned by author with AI drawing toolĬontrary to popular belief, pineapples do not grow on trees. Here are 15 of my favorite funny Chinese words.ġ. Perhaps the language with the funniest words when translated to English is German with its “Kummerspeck” (gain weight from comfort eating) and “Innerer Schwienehund” (inner pig-dog responsible for your slovenly behavior).īut Mandarin Chinese is not without its own vocabulary that is sure to get a chuckle or two from any Western listener. But if you talk like a normie, nobody will bat an eye when use your telephone to ring up the bank about a mortgage. For example, people might give you a strange look if you said you were going to use your “far voice” to call the bank about a “dead pledge”. If you think about it though, most languages have words that sound a little strange when you examine their meaning.
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Yang’s TikTok also includes other viral series such as his translation of Chinese songs into English and vice versa and an evolution of how English phrases or questions have changed throughout the years.As a learner of Mandarin Chinese, I often come across words or phrases that just sound plain funny when translated to English. He also tells his student to say the expression pronounced as “shiet bro” before reading the phrase. Yang teaches the phrase “I’m about to go to sleep” in the way Americans would supposedly say cool people in America like to say ‘finna’ instead of ‘about to,’” he says in Chinese. 10 and already has over two million views. Yang teaches the phrase “I’m about to go to sleep” in an American accent, was uploaded on Nov. The latest video to go viral, in which Mr. His “How to sound American'' series currently includes eight parts under “Speaking Tips.”
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In the video, he instructs his student on how to pronounce the phrase “I don’t know what you’re talking about” with an American tells the student not to pronounce the letter “T” in the words “don’t,” “what” and “about.” He then replaces the words “you’re” and “talking” with Chinese characters that phonetically read as an American pronunciation of the words. 16, it has received over 28 million views and 5.7 million likes on TikTok. 20 under his TikToks of “How to sound American'' was titled “Speaking Tips.” As of Nov.
A popular TikToker with the handle posted a series of viral videos in which he teaches a Chinese student how to sound American when pronouncing English phrases.
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