I have just launched my website in Japan with the base language being Japanese. I currently would like to be able to sell in English as well as a way to hit the international market and internationals in Japan. I bought a theme that is multi-language compatible (with Japanese and English) yet the translation for English is extremely subpar. The translation is riddled with spelling errors, mistaken capitalization and grammatical errors. I attempted to use a third-party application yet it was not good enough as well.
Is there another alternative way to add language?
Can I personally write the translation in English while keeping the base website in Japanese?
As per that guide, if your theme includes other languages then you can change the text for those languages too.
Check it out in your own store, see if you can find your theme’s English translation and if you can improve that yourself.
Have you launched your store already for the Japanese language market, and are you looking to also be able to sell internationally or to English speakers where you are in the future?
It seems as if i had not explained myself properly. The language editor section already has well translated the specific section properly.
I would like the whole website to be read in Japanese and English. The body test for my “about” page and “product description” section on the product page is written in Japanese as it is a Japanese website first. However, when selecting the English language of the website, I would like for these specific section to be in English. These are parts that I had personally put into the website. If possible, I would rather be able to write this section in English as well as having it in Japanese as a base. Can this be done?
Apologies for not getting back to you sooner here, as I had been off work for a couple of days.
It sounds like you’re referring to having the content of pages you create using the Online store > Pages menu in your admin be available in different languages, which may not be possible using the Edit Language function discussed.
If you could share a link to your store and confirm what text you’re referring to in your store and where we should be able to confirm that for you here.
The content in the “concept” page and “product” page’s description is currently in Japanese. I am keen on making it so when choosing the English language setting these specific content on the pages will turn English so it can be read internationally.
This might be a custom commerce experience specifically, but take a look around on the Experts Marketplace and see what sort of project you might want to engage in.
I need some advice on languages option. My website Brooklyn theme is English set in UK. What if for example someone in china looks at my website will the text automatically change to Chinese or do I have to install a language app?
Also I went to setting>store languages>translated languages>unpublished languages. What is this option? Does text translate automatically? It asks me to publish, and something about a subdomain. Do I need a translation app or shall I use the publish option?
In order for a customer to automatically see your store in a different language, local to them, you would need to look into using a translation app from our store.
You can, however, manually set up other languages for your store in the settings > store languages menu as you were asking about.
In regards to the manual translation settings > store languages example, I added Chinese. And when I click on preview it gives me a zh-CN at the end of co.uk in the url. On the preview website the website is still in English, only one or two word are translated in Chinese. Why is that? Do I need to publish first or do I need to install a third party translation app? Also if I do publish and have the url zh-CN. I will still keep the original co.uk url, right? The zh-CN is only for customers in china.
Second question is I have a Brooklyn theme website, the multiple currency switcher is at the bottom of website, footer for some reason. How do I put the currency switch option in the header top of website where customers can see?
You can also find info there on how domain URLs would work in this situation, which confirms that your original store domain stays in place with extra domain extensions added for any extra languages you have added yourself.
In order to see if this would be something you can get support for specifically, you can reach out via our help centre where we’ll be able to provide account-specific support like this.