Your partner's family speaks French, your best friend lives in Amsterdam and half of your colleagues reply in English? Then simply offer your page in several languages. Your texts are translated automatically, your guests pick their own language, and you never have to look up a single word yourself.
These seven languages are ready for you
Alongside German you can offer English, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Dutch and Turkish, one at a time or several at once. Each language gets its own address and its own version of your texts.
Adding a language
Open the editor and click Stil & Schriften → Sprachen (style and fonts, languages) in the sidebar.
Click „Sprache hinzufügen" (add a language) and pick one from the list. It appears straight away as a row of its own.
In that row, click „Jetzt übersetzen" (translate now). While it runs you read „Übersetze 6 Abschnitte …" (translating 6 sections). Translation only starts on your click, so nothing happens unasked.
Have a look at the result: the little eye button in the row switches the preview to that language, and further down there are small tiles for every language including German.
Click „Veröffentlichen" (publish) at the top right. Only that puts the language live for your guests. The editor reminds you: „Die Sprachen werden mit dem nächsten Veröffentlichen live." (Your languages go live with the next publish.)
The toggle in each language row decides whether that language comes along with your next publish. So you can work on French in peace and only release it once you are happy.
What your guests see
A small language switcher with flags appears at the top right of your page. With two languages both codes sit next to each other, for example DE and EN. From three languages on it becomes a compact button that opens a list with the language names, so that nothing overflows on a phone.
Every language also has an address of its own: just add /en, /fr, /es and so on to your link. You can send that direct link to particular guests and they land in their language right away. Personal invitation links with a code keep working, and the code is not lost when the language changes.
Good to know: for English the interface is translated as well, so buttons, forms and hints. For the other languages your own texts are translated while the interface appears in English. The editor tells you so on every affected language with the line „Bedienelemente erscheinen auf Englisch" (interface elements appear in English).
What it costs
One language is free. You can translate it as often as you like.
Further languages need Premium. Without active Premium you read „Eine Sprache ist gratis. Für weitere brauchst du das Premium-Paket." (One language is free. You need Premium for more.)
There is a 30 second pause between two runs of the same language. The button then briefly says „Bitte kurz warten" (please wait a moment).
You use the least by writing all of your German texts first and translating afterwards.
Letting a language go again
Two ways, depending on what you have in mind:
Just pause it: switch the toggle in the language row off. With your next publish it disappears from your guests' switcher, while its texts stay with you.
Remove it completely: click the three dots in the row and choose „Sprache entfernen" (remove language). We ask once, because this deletes all texts of that language, including your own corrections. Your German page stays untouched.
Frequently asked questions
Can I rewrite individual sentences myself?
Yes, at any time. Use the three dots in the language row and open „Texte prüfen" (review texts). Your German text sits on the left and the translation on the right, ready for you to change. There is more about this in the article on keeping your translations up to date.
Are my invitation emails translated too?
No. What gets translated is the content of your sections. Invitation emails and the sharing preview stay in German.
I cannot see the language switcher in the editor preview.
That is on purpose. In the editor you change languages with the tiles under „Vorschau" (preview) in the Sprachen area. The switcher for your guests only appears on the published page.
What happens if somebody opens /fr although I do not offer French?
Then that guest simply sees the German page. There is no error message.
It says „Es gibt noch keine übersetzbaren Inhalte."
That means there are no texts on your page yet. Add sections with content first, then translation will work.