Translation and multilingual content
Mindsmith can generate content in supported languages, create independent translated copies, or keep several language versions linked to one lesson or course.
Supported languages
The language menus currently include 78 languages:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, English (UK), Estonian, Filipino (Tagalog), Finnish, French, French (Canada), Galician, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Marathi, Norwegian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Setswana, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yoruba, and Zulu.
Arabic, Dari, Hebrew, Pashto, Persian, and Urdu use right-to-left learner layouts.
If the language you need is not listed, contact Mindsmith Support to request it.
Set the content language
Open Settings → Preview in a lesson or course and choose Lesson Language. This sets the main language used by the learner interface and by language-aware generation and narration tools.
Set the language before asking the Mindsmith Agent to build new content when you want the first version authored directly in that language.
Create an independent translated copy
Use Translate Lesson or Translate Course from the content’s More options menu. A lesson also offers Translate beside Lesson Language in Settings → Preview.
Choose a target language and confirm. Mindsmith creates a separate lesson or course that can be edited, shared, moved, or deleted independently. Translation uses organization credits when that organization is billed by credits.
Independent copies are useful when versions will differ in structure, policy, images, or assessment content.
Manage linked language versions
Linked translation management is an Enterprise feature.
Open Settings → Preview.
Select Add language versions beside Lesson Language.
Choose one or more target languages and generate them.
For a course, manage linked languages from the course editor. When editing a lesson that belongs to a translated course, return to the course home to manage the course translations.
The translation manager shows the main language and each linked version. From there you can:
Open a language version for review and editing
Add more languages
Regenerate one translation or all translations after the source changes
Remove a linked language version
Regeneration replaces translated content with a new translation of the current source, so review intentional edits in the target version first.
Linked lessons and courses can choose a learner’s initial language from the browser language. Learners can use the language control to switch among available versions without losing their progress.
XLIFF import and export
Linked lesson translations support XLIFF 1.2 for work with a translation team or external translation system.
Open Manage Lesson Translations.
Select Import/Export.
Choose one target language or leave the target empty to export all available lesson text.
Select Download XLIFF.
After translation, upload the resulting
.xlfor.xlifffile.
XLIFF import/export is available for lessons, not course translation management. Keep the XLIFF structure and identifiers intact so Mindsmith can map translated text back to the correct tiles.
Translation glossaries
Enterprise organizations can create translation glossaries under Settings → Glossary. Each glossary belongs to a supported source-language and target-language pair.
To enter terms manually, put the source term and preferred target term on the same line separated by a tab. Put each pair on its own line. You can also import CSV files whose language columns are mapped during import.
Glossaries guide new AI translations for that language pair. They do not retroactively rewrite existing translations; regenerate or edit those versions when terminology changes.
The narration glossary is separate. Use Settings → Narration Glossary to control how words are pronounced rather than how they are translated.
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