Way back in 1993-94, when I was teaching ESL in Moscow, I had a Russian friend who was kind of ABBA-crazed -- and his favorite song was "Take a Chance on Me". But he didn't know a word of English, so he'd just kind of hum the song (constantly) with nonsense syllables ("Chaka-cha, chaka-chika-cha"). Which, after a while, got on my nerves! So eventually I wrote out all the lyrics in Cyrillic: Иф ю чэйндж юр майнд, айм за фёрст ин лайн...

And, needless to say, друг писал кипятком от радости ("my friend was peeing boiling water from joy") because he was so happy that he could finally sing the words in English! (Well, sort of... but it was less annoying than the "chaka-chaka-cha")