Want to reach and hear your entire community? Engage with everyone in your community by providing custom-translated content in all major languages spoken in your organization. With custom translations, you can manually translate details of your engagement into 120 languages, ensuring accurate questions and data collection.
Where to find Custom Translations
Video Guide to Access Custom Translations
How to input Custom Translations
Video Guide to Using Custom Translations
List of Languages Available for Manual Translation
Why can't I just rely on Google Translate?
You can! However, in cases where your district serves a large population speaking a specific language, and you find Google Translate lacking in quality or missing important nuances of the language, the ability to enter custom translations enables you to manually input translations. This ensures greater accuracy, fostering better engagement, respect, and understanding amongst stakeholders within your community.
Where to find the Custom Translations feature
To use this feature in your engagements, click on the Gear button in the top right corner while creating or editing your engagement.
Note: Additionally supported languages need to be added before launching the engagement. Once the engagement is active, you will not have the option to add custom additional languages.
This will take you to engagement settings, where you will find the "Language" tab. Here, you can select the language (or languages) you'd like to manually translate.
Note: You can manually translate into as many languages as necessary. Keep in mind that for each selected language, you will have to translate all the required fields manually
Video Guide to Access Custom Translations:
Automatic Translations: You can continue using Google Translate for other languages by making sure the "Offer additional participation languages with Google Translate" toggle is set to ON.
Inputting your Custom Translations
Once you have hit "Apply" in the Language tab, you'll notice that an extra step called "Translations" is added to the Engagement creation stepper.
When you navigate to the "Translations" step, you will see the fields where you can input your custom translations. Click on the Pencil icon to begin editing. The field to enter your custom translations will populate in English and have a prefix indicating the language code of the target language.
Remove the entire string from these fields, including the language code, and enter your custom translations. Once you are happy with all your custom translations, hit "Save and Next" to proceed.
We recommend utilizing the Preview function to get an idea of how the translations will look to your participants.
Video Guide to Using Custom Translations:
What Participants See
When participants select their preferred language at the beginning of an engagement, custom-translated languages will be prioritized at the top of the list for easy participant access
Note: While custom translations work with leader-controlled aspects of the engagement, like Exchange or Survey questions, we still utilize Google Translate for the hard-coded text found in the engagement.
List of Languages Available for Manual Translation
Afrikaans
Akan
Amharic
Arabic
Assamese
Aymara
Azerbaijani
Belarusian
Bulgarian
Bambara
Bengali
Bosnian
Catalan
Corsican
Czech
Welsh
Danish
German
Divehi
Ewe
Greek
English
Esperanto
Spanish
Estonian
Basque
Persian
Finnish
French
Frisian
Irish
Scots Gaelic
Galician
Guarani
Gujarati
Hausa
Hebrew
Hindi
Croatian
Haitian Creole
Hungarian
Armenian
Indonesian
Igbo
Icelandic
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Georgian
Kazakh
Khmer
Kannada
Korean
Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz
Latin
Luxembourgish
Ganda
Lingala
Lao
Lithuanian
Latvian
Malagasy
Maori
Macedonian
Malayalam
Mongolian
Marathi
Malay
Maltese
Myanmar (Burmese)
Nepali
Dutch
Norwegian
Chichewa
Oromo
Odia (Oriya)
Punjabi
Polish
Pashto
Portuguese
Quechua
Romanian
Russian
Kinyarwanda
Sanskrit
Sindhi
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Samoan
Shona
Somali
Albanian
Serbian
Sesotho
Sundanese
Swedish
Swahili
Tamil
Telugu
Tajik
Thai
Tigrinya
Turkmen
Filipino
Turkish
Tsonga
Tatar
Uyghur
Ukrainian
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zulu
Chinese (Simplified)
If you opt not to use Custom Translations, Google Translate offers automatic translation for the languages listed above, along with these additional ones:
Bhojpuri
Cebuano
Kurdish (Sorani)
Dogri
Goan Konkani
Hawaiian
Hmong
Iloko
Krio
Mizo
Maithili
Northern Sotho
Chinese (Traditional)
Still have questions? We’re happy to help! Drop us a line at help@thoughtexchange.com.