# Language Translation **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/language-translation/79652 **Category:** Translations **Created:** [February 2, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/language-translation/79652 "2018-02-02T16:55:16Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen) #### Post date: [February 2, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/language-translation/79652/4 "2018-02-02T19:20:56Z")
I would love to see discourse get localized into kiswahili and other commonly used African languages. Do note that lots of languages are already supported out of the box - just look in your admin settings for language to enable them. These can live together on the same instance. You set one as the default. ![42%20AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/d/2d87a0d0e98c77677e9fe4d8788699c4b4479666.png) There is also a fairly amazing plugin providing automatic translation so people can translate posts into their own preferred interface language. We use it very actively on our community and it works surprisingly well even if the translations are a bit funny sometimes. 🙂 > [@Discourse Translator](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-translator/32630): > > discourse2Summary Discourse Translator translates posts on Discourse using Microsoft, Google, or Yandex translation APIs.hammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-translator](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-translator)open_bookInstall Guide [How to install plugins in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-plugins-in-discourse/19157)Features Each post is only translated once per locale which saves you moneybagNote that language detection is also run once for every post. Be careful when enabli… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/language-translation/79652)._