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Translation Mixer
Translation Mixer is a free online tool that sends your text on a journey through a chain of languages and shows you what comes out the other end — a telephone game for languages, inspired by the YouTube channel Twisted Translations.
Enter any text, choose how many languages to pass it through (or let us pick randomly from our library of 50+), and Translation Mixer routes it through Google Translate one step at a time. Each hop introduces small distortions that compound across the chain. By the end, the result is often surprising, poetic, or unexpectedly funny.
Why it works
Languages don't map onto each other perfectly. Idioms, cultural concepts, and nuance that exist in one language may have no clean equivalent in another — so the translator approximates, and the approximation drifts a little further with every step. String enough steps together and the meaning can end up somewhere completely different from where it started. Shakespeare has come out sounding like a fortune cookie. Pop lyrics have emerged as ancient philosophy.
Features
- 50+ languages supported via Google Translate
- Random or manually chosen language chains
- Full translation path shown after each result
- Save your favourite results with a free account
- Share results directly from the app
- Free to use, no account required to start
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