Adaptive pseudo translation provides dynamic adjustment of a generated pseudo translation based on one or more rules and one or more dynamically detected parameters. Data is received and an adaptive pseudo translation is initiated. A string is extracted from the received data and an encoding and a language of the string are detected. A target language is proactively selected based on a parameter. A buffer size is dynamically determined based on the detected encoding, detected language, and target language. The extracted string is dynamically transformed into pseudo translated text based on the buffer size. The dynamically generated pseudo translation provides a highly accurate mock translation to one or more target languages.