Portal 2 Multilanguage Comparison
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A comparison of the dialogue from Portal 2 in English, German, Spanish, French, and Russian. I was digging through the game files and listening to the differences, when it occurred to me that other people might be interested in this as well, so I compiled a few of them into this video.
These clips are pulled directly from the game files, so the difference in volume was unavoidable; sorry about that. Also sorry about my shit video editing skills.
A lot of people have been mentioning their faves in the comments. I tend to like the English voices best, but that's likely because they're what I'm most used to. I have to say though, all of the GLaDOSes are fantastic.
00:20 Announcer
Joe Micheals, ?, Alfonso Valés, Pierre-Alain De Garrigues, and Vitali Petrov
04:48 GLaDOS / Caroline
Ellen McLain, Gertrude Thoma, Ana Orra, Scarlett Perdereau, and Elena Kharitonova
10:45 Cave Johnson
J. K. Simmons, Rüdiger Schulzki, Ricky Coello, Paul Bourne, and Mikhail Georgiou
18:04 Wheatley
Stephan Merchant, Tobias Meister, Aleix Estadella, Guillaume Lebon, and Konstantin Karasik
25:08 Space Core
Nolan North, ?, ?, Emmanuel Rausenberger, and Yuri Lenin
28:16 Adventure Core
Nolan North, Erik Schäffler, Carlos Di Blasi, Emmanuel Rausenberger, and Yuri Lenin
33:11 Fact Core
Nolan North, ?, Danic Albiac, Martial Le Minoux, and Yuri Lenin
36:09 Turrets
Ellen McLain, Gertrude Thoma, Ana Orra, Scarlett Perdereau, and Elena Kharitonova
37:09 Defective Turrets
Nolan North, ?, Alfonso Valés, Pierre-Alain De Garrigues, and Yuri Lenin
Audio © Valve - เกม
This video is poorly made in retrospect, but I'm glad people like it anyways. Sorry for the mistakes/misunderstandings in my text-commentary; if TH-cam still had annotations I would use them to fix it but... alas. I would like to make more translation comparisons, as it's a personal hobby of mine, but it's proven to be very difficult for most things I like, considering I can't just sort through extracted sound files like I can with Valve games. I would have to record and edit hours of video footage, and for anything that isn't a video game I would risk a lot of copyright striking that I don't really want to deal with.
Not to mention my language skills have improved quite a bit. I may perhaps do more translation *analysis* videos rather than direct comparisons such as this one, where I pick different media and discuss specific interesting variations. I wrote the beginnings of a script a few months ago talking about problems with the anime dubbing industry. Would anyone be interested in these? Let me know!
I enjoy this video a lot, so I'd be interested in other videos about translation!
I loved it!
Ich liebe es!
I love language comparison videos!
@Colton Clark There's a Chinese translation of the subtitles and interface, but unfortunately no dub in Mandarin or other dialects
Thank you for the subtitles!
In spanish, they translated "When the life give you lemons, make lemonade" to "Al mal tiempo, buena cara", that means "To bad times, good face", so the metaphor changes completely.
So it actually says something like "I will make the weather regret giving Cave Johnson a bad time, I'll burn the damn weather predictions "
The Spanish "lemon" rant was much harsher than the other translations.
Yes, the swearing was a lot funnier. But it makes you think that he's seriously mad with the weather because of his illness(The coughing)
I don't know why but Russian Cave Johnson ranting about lemon I felt like he was about to shoot somebody
"I think I'll listen to this while I go to sleep"
*FIVE CONSECUTIVE TRAIN NOISES*
9:33 PATATA
Spanish from spain
sTone ForesT lol
en spanish latin se le dice papa y la patata es otro vegetal.
@@maximobeas7351 otro vegetal? Contanos
@@antoniocasias5545 acá en Argentina mayormente se usa la papa, la patata es más usada en sectores de norteamerica
Ahah, there is no accent in the Russian version of Wheatley. I even didn't got that joke in the game :D
Thanks!
That explains it then! I tried comparing it to other eastern European accents, but none of them quite matched up. It sounds like he's just overemphasizing the pronunciation.
Well in Ru Wheatley doesn't mention any accent, he literally says: "I'm speaking like this, because...", and I think this actually makes a real joke. Because, people may speak with an accent, if their pronunciation is not good enough, and that's OK, and the translators could easily use one of recognizable local dialects, but instead, Ru-Wheatley just distorts his intonation and pronunciation, and that's what people do if they play fool...or, in Wheatley's case, a moron ;)
I really like the delivery of the numbers of the narrator in English. Ir sounds like his enjoying it.
They also changed the punchline of the "cinetic momentum" line for the spanish version. Instead of being "God'll help you" it's changed to something more like "We recommend you start praying" the spanish narrator sounds more impersonal in that sense.
I didn't even feel the transition between English's GlaDOS and German's
When cave johnson says in French "je vais lui péter les rotules", it's not an expression about farting, péter is also a familiar way to say break or destroy. He actually says that he's going to break life's rotula so it won't get up. Anyway this video is nice regardless of the few mistakes.
Moustiluigi Random That actually makes a lot more sense. I was kind of confused about it lol
Pratzelwurm Understandable.
Russian GLaDOS is the worst... But Russian Wheatly is a nice pal :) Also, he did no accent at all, just speaks more emphatically...
Coucou in French is very funny since Russians use "ку-ку " very often
German Space Core is the best, I like it!
Adventure Core switched on "Славься" by Glinka, sadly, it actually suggested to play heroic by not adventure music. Not sure about first part of that music though, but the second part is totally it!
Thanks for this video!
Thanks for your input!
Нормальная озвучка на русском, примерно на том же уровне, что и остальные неанглийские варианты.
As for me, russian GLaDOS is the best
boy, have you heard her voice in portal 1? after that monstrosity the current one is a blessing
@@PlasticShitlord yeah. I still remember her saying:
"That has got to he the dumbest thing that...
*silence*
...uh-huh. Wow. Hehe.
*same robotic voice*
Good news..."
15:27 All right I’ve been thinking.When live gives you lemons,don’t make lemonade!Make life take the lemons back!GET MAD!I DON’T WANT YOUR DAMN LEMONS,WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THESE?!DEMAND TO SEE LIFE’S MANAGER!MAKE LIFE RUE THE DAY IT THOUGHT COULD GIVE CAVE JOHNSON LEMONS!DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!I’M THE MAN WHO’S GONNA BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN!!WITH THE LEMONS!I’M GONNA GET MY ENGINEERS TO INVENT A COMBUSTIBLE LEMON,THAT BURNS YOUR HOUSE DOWN!!!*cough*
German Lemon rant translated cuz it made me laugh:
"I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade. Throw the lemons back! Defend yourself! I don't want your stupid lemons, what am suposed to do with these?! Demand a manager! Life will regret that it gave Cave Johnson lemons! Who do you think I am?! I'll blow your house up, with the lemons! My engeniers shall invent lemon granades and with those I'll blow your house up!"
Lemon rant
German: I will have my technicians invent lemon grenades, and with them I'll blow up your house!
Spanish: Don't make a good face in bad weather, burn down the fucking weather map! I will have my technicians invent a combustible fuel made from isobars! (air pressure units)
French: when life knocks you down, don't get back up, blow out the bitch's kneecaps. Do you know who I am? I am the big bad wolf who will blow your house away! I will have my technicians attach ball bearings to your house to make it easier to blow away!
Fact sphere references
German: In 1975 (formula 1 driver) Michael Schumacher got his chin stuck in a vacuum cleaner. 20 years later, this made him aerodynamic enough to become world champion. (Dude has a giant chin)
French: In 1983, at the request of a sick child, (cyclist) Louison Bobet ate 75 buckwheat pancakes, before dying of buckwheat poisoning.
Also French: vulcanolagists all have pointy ears
8:57 For people who translated this game to Russian this loud sound is a motorship sound. I think they thought that motorship (теплоход) and locomotive (тепловоз) are the same thing
Это нормально. Главное, чтобы из контекста не было вырвано
Is it fixed now?
Thank you for sharing this!
I've watched the game's walkthroughs in English and in Russian instead of playing myself; now maybe it's the duck syndrome but I liked the English version better, definitely. The Russian voice of GLaDOS was even irritating at times. And, I may be mistaken, but some jokes are lost in translation, that one about a potato in particular. At least, in Russian, there is nothing wrong with a potato.
Maybe they translated "Aperture Science" in Ru as "Portal Research Lab" because the direct translation would sound quite funny and, perhaps, a bit suggestive, at the same time the original "Aperture Science" might just not sound too nice for a native Russian, or so they might think (it did come to my mind).
(I think they also did translate the "Black Mesa" in HL-s in Ru...I'm not sure.)
Cave Johnson - I liked the English version here best. Maybe it's just me, but it portrays his character best: agressive, business-minded, sometimes obsessive, heartless, evil. In German, it seems to me, he sounds not evil enough, in Spanish - too cheerful, in French - more like a grumpy old man, and in Russian - too kind and polite.
For Wheatley, I liked English (of course) and then Russian versions best. Its (his?) German voice is good, but maybe too serious for this character.
It was also fun for me to hear (vaguely, though, from a friend's PC speakers) some differencies in how GLaDOS refers characters in coop-game of Portal 2. So, she referred to the players' robots as "it" (both of them) in En, but as "he" in Ru. At the same time, GLaDOS referred to a disassembling machine as "he" in En (couldn't hear the Ru version unfortunately), thus meaning more personality in that machine than in player controlled test robots, which is fun too.
Sorry for my bad English.
"So, she referred to the players' robots as "it" (both of them) in En, but as "he" in Ru." - that's because we have grammatical gender in Russian. Word "robot" (робот) has masculine gender - "he" (он).
In "Detroit: Become Human" Russian localisation ran into a problem. In a nutshell, game's word - is a future world. There are robots serving people - they called androids. People and androids talk about androids using word "it" because androids are things for them, not persons. But people and androids who see persons in androids talk about and them using word "he/she". Android (андроид) in Russian has masculine gender. How we supposed to express the difference between soulless "it" and "he/she"? Just using words like machine, android! For example, in English repairman talk about android Kara using "it": "it was really messed up". In Russian he talks using word "machine": "Машина была просто в хлам" (The machine was completely destroyed).
About Russian GLaDOS: I have to admit that she (it?) sounds different but I like Russian voice of her. And I'm definitely in love with Russian Wheatley. Voice actor's name is Konstantin Karasik (Константин Карасик). He also was a voice actor for Vaas in "Far Cry 3". And he did great there too.
Посмотри алана блэк меза это черный лабиринт
What does this have to do with duck syndrome ?
Spanish is not cheerful about the lemons or weather
I’m sure there are videos of all of GLaDOS’s Russian voiced lines
0:56 guys i think wheatly is the announcer...
For me, french voice of cave jonson is the best
I like english Wheatley the most. German Wheatley sounds good as well (probably because I'm german), but it's pretty weird hearing Tony Stark's voice come out of Wheatley...
Wait what?
@@antoniocasias5545 yes. The one dubbing Tony Stark in the Marvel movies has also dubbed Wheatley
@@Leader7353 haha 😆
subbed !
Actually, Russian Space Core and Defective Turrets is Sergey Bekasov, Adventure Core is Mikhail Georgiu and Facts Core is Vitaliy Petrov
Weatly is Carasick
@@egorproc5161 Karasik
Well I'm french, but I like the english voices more. I like french too of course, but Wheatley's british accent is lost in the french version, so just for that, english is a bit better.
They should’ve made everyone else Canadian then
16:33 death noises
10:20 never heard it in the game
It's from the co-op story
German Cave sounds nice
*TRAIN SOUND*
I think the Spanish joke in the beginning was changed to English because it is way more common in Germany to learn English than Spanish. Also, later on, the joke where Wheatley talks in Spanish when he takes over the facility was chanhed to him speaking English for probably the same reason.
5:26 she refers to everyone as vous I think.
My best guess is that she’s trying to make a distance, socially and not be familiar and close??
Cave Jonson is the only character that 8s awesome in every language )
20:59
Está imitando el Argentino
"Hey le fausset, file-moi un peu d'bastos !" xDD
C'est un de mes textes préférés XD
@@FelineWasteland wdym
20:25 not to nitpick but
It really should be SÛR (sure) and not SUR (on)
21:04 the whole thing in the game is actually
*Wheatley*: ¡**Este**, colega! Hablo con un acento que está fuera de su espectro auditivo. ¡**Ya **sé que es pronto, pero **quizá deberíamos** irnos ya! Caminá como si nada hacia mi posición y la **apagamos**.
*GLaDOS*: Eh, bola metálica, te oigo
*Wheatley*: ¡Corre! **El acento no ha servido**
But yeah the subtitles are wrong in the game.
5:12 cuando habla glados luego de despertarse su voz cambia por un momento dandole como mas maldad en ese momento.
When I translate your comment to German, it says "he" instead of "she" for GLaDOS. Is that a mistake from TH-cam?
@@somespirit2511 It did the same thing in French. Unlike our languages, Spanish Portuguese, and even Italian can omit pronouns, because the conjugation is unique to each pronoun. And “su” in Spanish has no gender, neither for subject nor object, it is used for both “his” and “her” and even “your” as the formal pronoun.
@@antoniocasias5545 That's interesting. Thank you for the explanation!
@@somespirit2511 no problem 😌
8:44 instead of "loud noises", she talks about heart attacks.
4:34 en la version en español de portal 2 el locutor en vez de decir pida ayuda a dios, dice si las leyes han cambiado le recomendamos que rece.
*vez
*rece
@@thecaketubby5764 si lo se ya lo corrijo
So I played the game in German and English and it's cool too hear a language comparison. Here are my thoughts. Russian GLaDOS sounds a bit too mechanical in comparison to other languages. I think the English Cave Johnson is best, but French sounds good too. I mean, nothing can beat Stephen Merchant for Wheatley, but most of the other languages sound similarly "silly" in tone. But I think Spanish doesn't really fit. German space core is bad. Where is the autotune?! Sadly, the word "Weltraum" is hard to say or even scream because it's made of 2 words (literally "World Room") and not as short as "SPACE!!!" and there are no alternatives.The other languages sounds great. Rick sounds nice in all versions expect Russian, as you mentioned. Too monotone. Spanish fact core misses the autotune? The German one really has a "know it all" voice. It's great. Is Russian speed up?
When it comes to Russian GLaDOS, she's got too little emotions... even for GLaDOS.
Много раз видел мнение, что русская GLaDOS звучит хорошо, но все русские игроки знают, что она мертва внутри.
The French version is is either France French or Quebec French and I find that interestingly funny lol
Its a france french i guarantee you
(exept for the wheatley joke)
Sans in this video so MEGALOVANIA
36:39
Genial 😄 prefiero las voces en español jaja amo a Glados en español 😍
21:07 sounds more Acadian or Missouri French
21:19 in Russian Wheatley even not try to make a specific accent or dialect. So...
Спасибо за просмотр russian end
Unfortunately, the Russian translation is cheaper and with errors during the game, i.e. glados can tell and kill on the spot: Но сначала нужно уладить одну мелочь после того как ты убила меня(But first there's one little thing to settle after you killed me) )
But Caroline in aliver
)
I thought that error got fixed
33:18 in Russian too, lol )
the german Cave exploding in anger give me cheeks... i guess you understand why
What do you mean?
French Version is the best, no debate
Noice
*Cryostase*
As an Spanish person I love the spanish translation, but I have no idea what the fuck did they do with the turrets
Could you transcribe what is actually saying. At 21:04 subtitles are wrong
@@antoniocasias5545 I saw a comment you made later with the proper corrects. Glad you found out
its weird!
I AM RUSSIAN
The second language saying 9999999999 just sounds like
Puebes Puebes Puebes Puebes Puebes Puebes Puebes Puebes Puebes Puebes Puebes Puebes
Why does one just say ribbit
Which one?
Лайкните будто что-то умное написал)
Ладно))
Умная мысль
Русский топ
@ 2 года назад
Я даже не помню чтобы я этот комментарий оставлял, даже причину не помню.
@ зато Уитли лучше оригинала.
Normally the german versions are always the best, but in this one i have to addmit that the english is good, but all others are pretty shit