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title: "Read email in your language"
description: "Translate a message you cannot read into one you can, where it sits: 200 languages, names and numbers untouched, the original one click away."
url: "https://openemail.uk/features/translate-read"
---

[Reading & organising](https://openemail.uk/features.md#reading)

# Read in your language without leaving the message

A supplier writes in Italian, a customer in Chinese. Translate turns either message into your language, right where it sits.

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In short

## What is email translation?

Email translation rewrites a message in a language its reader knows. A careful one leaves names, numbers and links alone, so they still match the original.

How it works

## Translate from the message menu

Choose Translate from the ⋯ menu on a message. The text changes where it sits, not in a side panel.

## Two hundred languages, switched mid-message

Search by the name a language calls itself, and switch halfway down without a trip to settings.

## The parts you check stay put

Names, links, order numbers, prices and dates stay exactly as they arrived. Quoted replies underneath are left alone.

What you get

## In the product today

In place, not beside

Same thread, same message, same reply button.

The original, one click

A bar names the language you are reading and hands the original back.

Only when you ask

Nothing translates by itself except replies to a thread you sent translated.

Good practice

## Getting the most out of it

1. 01
   
   Set your language once
   
   Pick it in Account → General, apart from the app’s language, so the first translation is right.
2. 02
   
   Reply in their language
   
   Every language you can read in, you can also answer in, from the same thread.
3. 03
   
   Check the numbers
   
   Match names, prices and order numbers against the original before you act on them.

Where it stands

## Good to know

Questions

## Asked often

Keep going

## Works well with

Send in theirs

Write in your own language and have it arrive in the recipient’s.

Ask your inbox

A chat that can act, not just answer. On every plan, Free included.

Writing tools

Formatting, inline completion and emoji shortcodes in the composer.

Start

## Your domain, your mail.

Point a domain at OpenEmail and read it in a mailbox built around it. The free plan covers one domain.

[Open mail](https://openemail.uk/mail/inbox) [Get Started](https://openemail.uk/signup.md)[Read the reference](https://openemail.uk/docs/knowledge/reading/translate-read.md)