Hello and welcome to English in Brazil.
Welcome to English in Brazil!
Where are you from, Vaughn?
You have such a beautiful name, Vaughn.
I had to ask him how to say his name before.
Thank you! Well, I'm from Canada, but I'm living in the United States now.
So what you're gonna have to do today is reacted to some
mistranslations, made by Brazilians
during the World Cup in Brazil, in 2014.
I know I'm a little bit late, a little bit, just five years late,
but I think the examples are still fun, and...
I'd love to know, what you understand when you read those signs
and those translations, alright?
Okay, absolutely! I'm excited!
So, the first one is
Bread was cold, well, then...
The saying in English is
if you have a cold, you have a sickness. Like, you're...
You're coughing and you're sneezing.
To be exact, in English, I would say that the bread has a sickness.
Okay! But actually what they are trying to say here is
bread with ham
and cheese.
Because we have a word. In Portuguese, we say...
So how do you say cheese and
sausages and ham in English? Is there a word in English?
Yeah, I mean, you could say like a deli sandwich
or a cold cut sandwich.
I can see now the bread was cold, we would say cold cut sandwich.
Okay, cold cut sandwich.
Okay, So the second one is
So, obviously, cheese.
We were just talking about sandwiches, we know cheeses.
But then to say "cheese mine", like a minefield,
as in like, there's these mines underground, you walk on them,
they're gonna explode. So it's like there's...
A bomb of cheese.
So that's what you understand when you read this, right?
Yeah, exactly.
But, actually, what they were trying to say is that this type of cheese
comes from Minas Gerais,
which is a Brazilian
state.
It's very different.
Yes, because we say
I was thinking that, maybe, a better translation would be "Minas Cheese",
right?
Yes, absolutely, that'd be 100% right.
We should not translate "Minas Gerais", the name of the state.
So, just, "Minas Chesse". Much better.
Okay, that one's crazy.
Crazy crazy,!
Termite is like these little bugs, that you can have like an infestation
and they get in your walls and they start to eat wood.
And then, "Termite the Orange Sauce"....
So, it's like that... I mean, it makes zero sense.
It's a "Termite the Orange Sauce". Yeah, it's...
It's a bug and then orange sauce.
Like, there's no way to make a sentence of that.
So in English, we have two different words for "cupim".
So, we have termite which is the the bug...
We actually don't know exactly how to say that in English,
What is the meaning of hump?
So hump is like, just like,
almost like a hill.
It's like a camel, the camel has a hump or two humps, you know?
That is the part of the ox, of the animal, we're talking about.
I've found "Hump Steak"
as a possible translation for this type of meat.
Have you heard of "Hump Steak"?
No, see, that's the thing, we don't say "Hump Steak" here.
That's just not an expression. That's not a cut of steak.
So there may not be a direct translation
that's proper for this, that we can find, at least.
I think it's maybe a Brazilian cut, you know?
A Brazilian type of meat.
We have something called a "chuck steak",
which is a similar part of the animal,
but it's not like, just the hump, it's more so like the neck area.
That's the closest thing we have.
I was gonna say, it sounds like that's a Brazilian cut to me, yeah.
Maybe we could keep the word in Portuguese, like,
'Cupim Steak" or something like that.
Yeah, I think that's the best thing to do.
It might excite people, like as an American coming to Brazil.
It's like oh it's a cut of steak I haven't seen before.
What is "cupim"? What is "cupim"? I need to know what "cupim" is.
Yeah, exactly!
And then we could charge more.
Yeah, that's right. You'll get us all. We'll all fall that.
So in the next one, we're talking about juice flavors.
Shit, a shit flavored juice
would be...
The worst kind.
Shit is a derogatory word for poop,
in North America, so...
Not very attractive right?
No! No, no...
And it's,
It's funny because it literally means poop, but people also use it
it's an expression to say if something tastes bad,
you say, "that tasted like shit".
But it's like kind of a bad word here in the United States.
The problem here is probably the fact that they misspelled the word
in Portuguese,
And then they added this word to Google Translate
because "coco", "COco" is
coconut, but "coCÔ"
is
shit or poop.
They made the mistake over there as well, I see.
That's very close.
I love "The American language".
It's the best one for me.
But what is this?
Like what is this list here?
-Is that a menu? -It's a menu!
They're trying to describe what they have to serve.
There's a whole lot messed up here.
First off, there's the
I can I can already see what they're trying to say,
but there should be a "T", as you know.
So right now that's a file of fish,
but like, a file is like your paperwork, your bills, those are files.
So you could say,
in English, "Fillet of Fish"
and just the only difference is
that you take the accent off the "E" and you put a "T" there.
and that's so, it's like a misspelling.
Fillet of fish or fish fillet,
it's both good.
And then they have "À Americana",
which is like American style, and then they said, "in American".
How would you translate the whole thing?
"American Style Fish Fillet" or, probably, "American Style Fillet of Fish".
Or "Fish Fillet".
Yeah, "American Style Fish Fillet".
We would just say, a "Bolognese Lasagna".
Not "Lasagna the Bolognese".
I would say most lasagnas are this way already,
so you could just calmly say lasagna.
But bolognese is like a
fancy term that you might see in, like, a nice menu. So it's okay.
Because we also have chicken lasagna, right? At least in Brazil.
Yeah, that's not, that's not as common here,
but I'm sure that'd be great.
We are very creative.
Yeah, I don't even, I don't even know what that is.
Actually, in this case,
I don't know where they took this "unscheduled" from.
Because what they're trying to say is "liver, liver".
So like, "liver baits" or "baits of liver".
So I don't know where they took this...
How would you say this in English?
You would say...
"Chopped Liver Lisbon Style" or "Lisbon Style Chopped Liver".
It doesn't work in English, alright?
So, you should say, "Chopped Liver", okay?
So, then we have
The direct translation, to me, that sounds like,
The cod is speaking Spanish, which obviously is not true.
So you would just say, "Spanish Cod" or "Spanish Style Cod".
Then the last one, "The American language"...
That is...
English.
The American language is English. Language is the word for...
The way you communicate, so, English, Spanish, Portuguese...
That's language.
Can you guess what they're trying to say here?
I would guess, it's like, some sort of noodle dish,
it would be my guess. I hope I'm right.
No, they're trying to say tongue.
The American tongue.
Like, "American Style Tongue". Like, maybe...
Cow tongue? Or something like that?
-Because this is something we eat. -America style?
I don't know why it's American Style.
That's funny because tongue...
I've seen tongue before in grocery stores,
but not very common, not very common at all!
So we have...
Which...
Against is like when you are not for something,
but against it, that you are not in favor.
You take a dislike to.
So, say "Against the Brazilian Steak" is...
Almost as if you're on strike against the steak,
that you don't want the state to be made, you hate the steak.
Yeah, exactly.
This would be a sign for some vegan protesters or something.
That's about it, that wouldn't be a menu item.
What they're trying to say here is striploin.
I was just telling them that
It's very hard to translate and
to be aware of all the meat cuts in English,
because there are so many differences,
and sometimes, they don't even exist in another country.
For example, we have the "cupim" here and maybe you've never tried "cupim".
Exactly! Yeah!
So they have different cuts.
So it's very hard to translate. And then we have the last one!
Take a look at what you understand here.
Okay. So, number four, "kill".
The English word to to murder, to end someone's life.
So yeah, it's not so easy on menu, for sure.
Would you like to try some...
...kill?
No, absolutely not! You'll go to jail for a long time to try that even.
I'll take the iced tea instead, you know?
Yeah, much better, right?
Much safer.
What they were trying to say here is "mate tea".
Have you heard of "mate tea"?
Yeah, so "mate tea", I'm not a big tea drinker, but that is...
That's a tea that you can get here in the State.
So, you would just keep the spelling the same there, "mate".
The imperative form of "kill", in Portuguese, is "mate".
So that's why they miss translated it as
"mate", like "kill". It's "mate tea, mate tea".
Alright, so I think you would have a lot of fun here in Brazil like, reading menus.
Yeah, absolutely!
Also, thank you so much for having me.
Brazil, I'll have to come see you. I love you, guys!
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