- (in deep voice) Everything else is... - A machine map. (laughs)
- Remember, I left school a long time ago.
- (both laugh) - I don't have to study these anymore.
I'm just watching Netflix. (laughs)
♪ (upbeat intro) ♪
- (FBE) Today, we're going to be putting your language skills
to the test. - Ooh, that's fun.
- Wait. Okay, so I know Sheila and I both speak Spanish.
- 'Cause we're both from outside of the States.
- Yeah. - Our native language...
- (both) Is Spanish. - (FBE) We've run a few sentences
through Google Translate and brought in some of
our bilingual cast members to see if you can take
these sentences back to English. - Oh, okay. Easy.
- (FBE) Easy? - (chuckles) No. Just kidding.
- (FBE) The first round will just be converted from English
into your second language, and you'll get one point
if you get it correct. Each subsequent round
will be worth one more point than the previous round,
because we've added in an additional language translation
before we arrive at your language, which, if you didn't know,
tends to screw up the translation a little bit.
And just so this challenge isn't impossible, we've picked
some sentences and phrases that are well known.
- Oh! - Okay, that's really fun.
- That is really-- I'm actually nervous.
My mom's actually an after school Arabic teacher,
so this is so bad. - You better wreck me!
- I have friends who have traveled abroad even to Japan,
and they only use their Google Translate to talk
to the locals there, and it works.
- Yeah, it works about... - It's not perfect, but they--
- ...70% of the time. - Yeah. They get it.
- If you use it to communicate with other people, it's kind of...
you look just like a fool, which is what we're gonna look like.
- I know! (laughs) - Like we don't know anything.
- (computer speaking Tagalog) (bell rings)
- He's looking for the kind of...
um, dumb... in his fingers.
- He's looking...
for the same kind
of dumb in his finger.
- (computer speaking Mandarin)
- That's too long a sentence. - What?!
- (laughs) Her finger... - I can't read Chinese, so...
- ...and her thumb, it shows an L shape.
(bell rings) What do you call people
who doesn't speak-- - Her finger and her thumb
in the shape of L on her forehead. - (FBE) That is correct.
- He kind of gave it away to me. The moment he said the L,
I was like, "I know the lyric." - Yeah, and I was visualizing it too.
- (computer speaking Spanish) (bell rings)
- ♪ She was looking kinda dumb with her finger and her thumb
in the shape of an L ♪ - (both) ♪ On her forehead ♪
- (computer speaking Arabic)
(bell rings) - It's about putting your finger
and your thumb in the shape ♪ of an L on your forehead ♪
Is that right? She was looking kinda dumb with her finger
and her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead. (laughs)
- (FBE) That is correct. - (claps) There we go. Nice.
- I learned English with this song. My teacher when I was in Mexico,
she would give us a song every week, and this was one of the songs
she gave us to learn in sixth grade. - Oh my god!
- I should've said, "Loser!" - (both laugh)
- That's it, you know? - (FBE) This next round
is worth two points, because this quote went
through two languages in Google Translate.
- Oh, it's a quote. Okay.
- (computer speaking Tagalog)
(bell rings) - You studied it.
In 16% of cases,
it remains the same each time.
(buzzer)
- (computer speaking Arabic)
- (inhales deeply) She said (speaks Arabic), which is 60.
- Uh-huh. - But-- and something about
(speaks Arabic), so, like, twice.
- (computer speaking Spanish)
(bell rings) - You studied, you know.
In some percent of the cases, it functions all the time.
(buzzer)
- (computer speaking Mandarin)
- It said if you know, if you study, 60% of the-- under 60% of the time,
it works every time. - I don't know what this is from.
- Yeah. - (speaks Arabic) Oh, no. (speaks Arabic) means one.
- (speaks Arabic) Every time. - Yeah, so maybe I'm right.
But I don't know the exact number of-- what is it?
- You studied, you know.
The 60% of cases works in every hour.
- Oh, no, no, no, no, no. - Oh, I feel like
you get it some more, though. - It's studied, you know.
70% of the time it works in all cases.
Is that right? (buzzer)
- You studied, you know, 70% of the time,
it works all the time. (buzzer)
- That's what I said. - 60% of the time, you're 100% right.
That's my guess. - Okay, that's a good guess.
It literally looks like it says, "I studied and I learned,
and 60% of the time, it works every time."
- Yeah. - I feel like it's one
of those things, where it's like 60% of the time, it'll work
100% of the time or something like that.
I know I've heard this. - You're getting close.
- I just don't remember the exact phrase now.
It's there in the corner of my mind now, but I'm not gonna
be able to get that exact line. - (FBE) So, this is,
"They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time, it works every time."
- (chuckles) What is that from, though?
- (FBE) That's from Anchorman. - (both) Oh.
(sighs) - Ohhhh, okay. That makes sense.
- They've done studies? (speaks Tagalog)
(laughs) - Yeah.
(speaks Tagalog) is "You studied." - (speaks Spanish)
- (speaks Spanish) I know!
- (speaks Spanish) not 70! - I was like, "60?!"
- Dammit, Sheila!
- No, the translation... - Yeah, that translation was
a little off. - ...threw us off on that, yeah.
- Yeah, that wasn't a "they." It was a "you."
- Yeah, not even close with that. So, I think Google screwed up.
That's all. (laughs) - Yeah, we'll blame Google
on that one. - (FBE) For three points,
what is this? - (computer speaks Arabic)
- (gasps) - I don't even what
(speaks Arabic) means. - Yeah! (laughs) Me too.
Hold on. Okay. Does it mean a slope
or a slide, though? - (sighs) I don't know.
It could be. - And it had to be--
let's pretend like that means "she sells" or that--
- She sells seashells on the seashore? - (gasps and claps)
(ding) - (FBE) That is correct.
- Oh my god! Whoa! - Good job!
- Thank you! - High five!
I'm so proud of you! - Thank you. Thank you.
- (computer speaking Tagalog)
- She sells seashells by the seashore. - On the seashore.
- (both laugh)
- (computer speaking Spanish) - Think about it.
(bell rings) Think about it.
- I got it. Is it she sells seashells by the seashore?
- (FBE) That is correct. (ding)
- Was that it?! - Yeah.
- I thought that was gonna be harder! - I know!
- (computer speaking Mandarin)
- (speaking Mandarin) - She's selling the shells...
- On the seashore. - Shore. Yeah.
(bell rings) - She sells seashells
on the seashore. - Seashore. Yeah. (chuckles)
- That was a good one. Good job! - Well, thank you. You helped me!
It was more of a team-- we're kind of winning together,
you know? - That's fine with me.
- Yeah. The other layer here is that there's formal Arabic
and slang... - Like, even between us,
you have Egyptian Arabic and Iraqi Arabic.
- And those dialects are different. - And they're different too.
- This is a good one. - Yeah. This one definitely worked.
- Remember, I left school a long time ago. (laughs)
I don't have to study these anymore. I'm just watching Netflix. (laughs)
Nobody tells me what to do anymore except my wife. (laughs)
- (FBE) For four points, it has been translated through
four different languages. - Yeah.
- Oh, okay! That's so cool. - This is not gonna be a sentence.
- (computer speaking Spanish)
(bell rings) - There are some things you cannot buy.
Everything else is... - (softly) Oh.
- Wait, I know where this is from.
I think. - I know. This sounds familiar.
- That last three words... - (speaks Spanish)
- ...don't make sense. - Yeah, that's what throwing me off.
- (speaks Spanish) - (speaks Spanish) Yeah, I feel like
I've definitely heard it. The only thing throwing me off
is (speaks Spanish), the last little part.
I'm like, "I don't know." - Yeah, it sounds weird.
- (computer speaking Mandarin)
- Something that you cannot-- - You can't-- yeah, you can't buy...
- You cannot buy everything. - ...every day.
But then I didn't understand the second half of that.
- You can use your credit card?
- (computer speaking Tagalog)
(bell rings) - There are things that you cannot buy
with money. For others...
there... you need a card.
- (computer speaking Arabic)
- Ahhhh! I know this! Hold on! Obviously, it's Mastercard.
What is the Mastercard saying? (bell rings)
- With some things, money can't buy. Everything else-- or--
the whole thing with Mastercard. - I mean, it just says,
there's that you cannot buy. And I feel this is like a ser--
(in deep voice) There's things you cannot buy. Ooh, ooh.
Everything else is just.... - A machine map. (laughs)
- ...a machine map. - There are some things
that you cannot buy with money. - That's the first sentence.
- But to others...
you can use your credit card. - (both laugh)
- There are things... - Uh-huh.
- ...that you can't? - That you can.
- That you can? - Or (speaks Arabic).
- It says (speaks Arabic), that you can't.
(bell rings) - There's things you cannot buy.
Everything else... - (laughs)
I don't know. I don't have anything better.
- There are things that money can't buy.
For everything else, use Mastercard. (ding)
I don't even use Mastercard. I have a Visa. Come on now!
- There's some things you can't buy with money.
For everything else, there's Mastercard?
(ding) Ohhh!
- Nice! - High five!
That was a good one. - Nice.
- (FBE) The quote is there are some things
money can't buy. - YES!
- For everything else, there's Mastercard.
- Oh. What the [bleep]? I thought it was like,
there are some things money can't buy, but it can buy you life insurance
or something like that.
- (both) Ohhh. - It's an advertisement.
- Mastered, the (speaks Tagalog)... - Yeah, mastered.
- ...is Mastercard. - I should have thought
about that, huh? - (FBE) Last sentence.
For five points, what does this say? - Okay.
- Okay.
- (computer speaking Spanish)
- That is too short. Literally, it says...
- (both) The job is very talented. - That's what it says.
A man says this to another man. Brittany?
(bell rings) - A job well done.
- (FBE) That is incorrect. (buzzer)
- For a second, I thought you were gonna get it!
- No, I didn't. - 'Cause he was-- he-- (groans)
- No, dude. I have nothin'. - Okay. No.
- (computer speaking Tagalog)
- (speaks Tagalog) The power...
May the-- may the force be with you. (laughs)
- Something like that. - May the power be with you.
- Yeah! You got it! - (FBE) Incorrect, actually.
- Ah! I was gonna say that.
- (computer speaking Arabic)
- Okay. (bell rings)
Oh, you already know it? - With the strength of... uh...
Wait, (speak Arabic). With the-- yeah,
with the strength of the bones...
(speaks Arabic)
Oh, there's a big responsibility. - Oh. Wait, so what is it?
- With the-- with great power comes
great responsibility! - (claps)
(ding) - SPIDER-MAN, BABY!
Spider-Man came to save me, bro! - It says with great bones
comes great responsibility. - I know! With (speaks Arabic).
- (computer speaking Mandarin)
(bell rings) - With great power
comes great responsibility?
- (FBE) That is correct. - Oh, wow.
(ding) - Yeah, I knew the power
and I knew the responsibility. - And that was the one I didn't get!
The power. (laughs) - (FBE) So, this is
with great power comes great responsibility.
- I think I heard that line before. - There is no great
responsibility here. That's a saying
that I'm familiar with, but it doesn't show here.
It's like the power is going with you. - Come on, give it to me! (laughs)
- That, I would've-- (groans) - You would've known that one?
- No. It was missing too many words. - I don't know. Yeah, it was a lot.
- It was missing too many words. - And (speaks Arabic) means, yeah,
strength, not with power. - But maybe they flipped that.
The strength with great-- oh, I guess, yeah.
- Yeah, it's because it's with great power,
but they say... - With great bone strength
comes a lot of milk. (laughs) - They say with great bone strength
comes or (speaks Arabic), yeah, great responsibility.
- (FBE) All right, with a final score of 4-0, Brittany, you are our winner.
- Woo! - I'm proud of that one.
- Good job. - (both) That was hard.
- I think it's definitely a team effort on that.
I think Jasser and Rna won that one.
- Most of it this Google's fault. - It lacked some words
that should have been there. - They lose the actual meaning...
- The words, yeah. - ...of whatever you're saying.
- But it was fun. - Oh, yeah.
- There's no way that anything will ever be a 100% translation.
The best you can do is, like I said, piece together
the parts and try to understand it. If you're taking a Chinese class
in college, I wouldn't recommend typing it up in English
and translating over, 'cause you're gonna fail.
- Thanks for watching Bilingual People
vs. Google Translate... - On the React Channel.
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- Buh-bye! - Bye in English.
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