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Languages and translations

Share the same event in more than one language, without writing it twice.

Tito is translated into twenty-four languages: English, English (UK), Irish, French, German, Czech, Danish, Spanish, Spanish (Mexico), Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Swedish, Swahili and Chinese (Simplified). French and German each come in a formal and an informal register, and you pick the one you want.

You write an event in one of them, its Default language. You can offer it in as many of the others as you like.

Everything you typed in your own language stays exactly as you typed it. An extra language adds translated wording on top, one box at a time, so you can translate as much or as little as you want. Anything you haven't translated shows in your default language.

Changing the language an event is written in

Change Default language to one you've already translated into and Tito moves the words rather than relabeling them. Your translations become the event's own wording, what the event said before becomes a translation into the language it's leaving, and that language is added to the ones the event offers. A confirmation screen says how many translations move before anything happens.

Wording you've saved but not published goes live as part of the move.

Question wording stays where it is. Questions belong to the account rather than to one event, so a translated question label is still a translation.

Publishing

Saving and publishing are two steps. What you save stays private until you publish it, so you can translate over several sittings while attendees go on reading what's already live.

Good to know

• An event page takes its language from the ?lang on the link somebody followed, and keeps that choice in a cookie. Without one it uses the visitor's browser language, and then your default. It only ever picks from the languages this event offers.
• The language menu lists each language under its own name, A to Z. On your account's event list, which offers every language, the menu also has a search box, so a visitor can type the first letters of their language instead of scrolling.
• A choice question translates the wording an attendee reads. The answer that gets stored is always the one in your default language, so collected answers mean the same thing whichever language somebody answered in.
• Clearing a translated field back to blank puts that wording back to your default language. Your original wording stays where it is.