Languages

GiftWell speaks 11 languages: English, Español, 简体中文, हिन्दी, العربية, Français, বাংলা, Português, Русский, Bahasa Indonesia and اردو. The whole product is translated: the assessment, results, My GiftWell, the staff workspace, emails, these docs and the blog.

Picking a language

Open the language menu beside the color theme, in the header of every public page. In the workspace it is in your account menu. Your choice is saved to your account, so it follows you to any device you sign in on.

Someone with no account gets the language their browser asks for, and keeps the one they pick on that browser. Anything GiftWell doesn't speak falls back to English.

Sharing the assessment in a language

Add ?lang= and the language's code to your assessment link to open it in that language:

Language	Code	Language	Code
Español	es	Português	pt
简体中文	zh	Русский	ru
हिन्दी	hi	Bahasa Indonesia	id
العربية	ar	اردو	ur
Français	fr	English	en
বাংলা	bn

For example, /c/your-church?lang=es for your Spanish service's bulletin. It works on your own domain and on the embed too. The taker can still switch from the menu.

What follows each person's language

• The assessment and the result. GiftWell keeps the language someone took it in. Their result email, retake reminder and anything else sent about that result goes out in it.
• Team emails. The weekly digest, invitations, plan notices and walking-with emails reach each person in the language they picked. Two pastors on one team can read the same digest in two languages.
• Ask AI. It answers in the language you are using.
• Docs and the blog. Pages open in your language. Links between pages still work across languages.

Arabic and Urdu read right to left, and the whole layout mirrors for them.

What stays as you wrote it

Your church's own words are never translated: names, ministries, teams, resources, your own questions and results wording, and what people write in their answers. If your church runs in two languages, write those words the way both congregations will read them.

Gift names written to Planning Center fields stay in English, so your lists and filters there keep working whatever language your staff use. Films in these docs are narrated in English.