What is Translation Mixer?
It’s a telephone game for languages. Type something in, send it on a wild ride through a chain of languages, and see what comes out the other end. Sometimes it’s poetic. Sometimes it’s nonsense. Always entertaining.
Inspired by Twisted Translations
This whole thing started because of Twisted Translations, a brilliant YouTube channel that takes songs, movie quotes, and pop culture and runs them through Google Translate over and over until they come out as something completely unrecognisable — and hilarious. If you haven’t watched it, go do that first. We’ll wait.
Watch Twisted TranslationsHow It Works
Type any text into the translator. Choose how many languages you want it to pass through — or let us pick randomly. We send your text through each language one at a time using Google Translate, and show you the final result along with the full journey it took.
The more languages in the chain, the more dramatic the drift. Five languages might give you something poetic. Ten might give you something completely unrecognisable. That’s the fun of it.
Built by Jeremy Lemley — Lemley Tech
My name is Jeremy. I’m a software developer and IT professional based in the United States with over a decade of experience building web applications, managing infrastructure, and working with APIs at scale. I built Translation Mixer because I wanted to turn a hobby — watching machine translation fail in increasingly absurd ways — into something other people could enjoy.
The frontend is built with React and Next.js. The translation engine runs on a custom Go backend that chains Google Translate API calls sequentially, handles rate limiting, and stores saved translations for registered users.
To learn more, check out How Translation Mixer Was Born. For questions or feedback, use the Contact page. Happy Mixing!
Translation Mixer is an independent side project. It uses the Google Translate API for translations and Claude by Anthropic for AI assistance. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google, Anthropic, or Twisted Translations.