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Display Citizenserve in Other Languages – Google Translation Setting

Citizenserve showing Google Translate Page language prompt

Display Citizenserve in Other Languages - Google Translation Setting

Use Google Translation setting to display Citizenserve in other languages. Once you change your setting, Chrome will prompt you to translate each site you visit into the default language. But first, here are all languages available in Google (as of December 2020):

Afrikaans
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Catalan
Cebuano
Chichewa
Chinese
Corsican
Croatian
Czech
Danish 		Dutch
English
Esperanto
Estonian
Filipino
Finnish
French
Frisian
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Haitian Creole
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hindi
Hmong 		Hungarian
Icelandic
Igbo
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kannada
Kazakh
Khmer
Kinyarwanda
Korean
Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Lithuanian 		Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Maori
Marathi
Mongolian
Myanmar (Burmese)
Nepali
Norwegian
Odia (Oriya)
Pashto
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian 		Russian
Samoan
Scots Gaelic
Serbian
Sesotho
Shona
Sindhi
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Spanish
Sundanese
Swahili
Swedish
Tajik
Tamil
Tatar
Telugu 		Thai
Turkish
Turkmen
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uyghur
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zulu

Turn Translation on for a specific language.

You can control whether Chrome will offer to translate webpages in a specific language.

1. Open Chrome.
2. At the top right, click the three vertical dots (Customize and Control Google Chrome).
3. Choose Settings, then Advanced.
4. Under "Languages," click Language.
Chrome language settings
5. Click the more button next to the language you'd like to use.
- If the language isn't listed, add it by clicking Add languages.
Google Languages - Add Spanish Language
6. Turn on 'Offer to Translate Pages in this language'.
Offer to translate pages menu in Google Chrome Languages setting

Now, when you visit Citizenserve you'll be prompted to translate the page. Also, you can click the Translate Page button in your address window. Likewise, it is easy to change your selected language.
Citizenserve showing Google Translate Page language prompt

Likewise, if you'd like to translate a single page into another language, visit this blog post.

Before you go, visit our Live Demos page to see other ways citizenserve can support your community development needs.

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Use Google to Translate Citizenserve into Other Languages

Select Translate To Language in Google Translate Plugin

Citizenserve is browser-based, so we can use Google tools in the Chrome Browser to translate our staff and portal pages into any language defined in google. There are a few different ways to translate a page into another language - let's start with the easiest!

Use Google Translate to Display Citizenserve into Another Language

1. Navigate to Google Translate
Google Translate Input Screen

2. In the empty cell on the left, type or paste the website you'd like to translate - set the default language the page displays in.
Google Translate with www.citizenserve.com in translate field.

3. In the cell on right, your web address displays - select the language you'd like Google to translate into, click the arrow for more selections.
Google Translate showing List of available languages

4. Click the translate button to load the translated page in a new browser tab.
Google Translate with Translate button highlighted.
5. Your website should display in your desired language.
Citizenserve Home Page in Spanish

Add Google Translate Plugin to Your Browser

Google Translate Plugin provides a quick and easy way to translate any Chrome page. Follow these steps to install it:

1. Navigate to Google Translate Plugin from Chrome and click "Add to Chrome".
Google Translate Plugin at Chrome Store
2. Confirm the 'Add Google Chrome?' popup by clicking 'Add Extension'
Add Extension Confirmation Button on Google Chrome Plugin Page

Pin the Google Translate Extension to Your Chrome Extension Tray

1. In the top right corner of Chrome, select the Extension Icon (the Puzzle piece)
2. Next to Google Translate, select the Push Pin icon to pin the extension to your extensions list.
Google Translate Plugin Icon in Shortcut bar

Use Google Translate Plugin to Translate a Web Page.

1. Navigate to the web page you'd like to translate

2. Click the Google Translate Plugin in Chrome, to the right of your address bar. If you have not pinned the extension, click the Google Extension (puzzle) icon and select Google Translate.

3. At the dropdown window, select TRANSLATE THIS PAGE.
Translate This Page Google Extension Button

4. On the new Google Translate toolbar that displays, select the 'Translate to:' language from the dropdown.
Select Translate To Language in Google Translate Plugin

5. View the webpage in the language you selected. (You may need to hit the translate button)

To make a more permanent change to your google account, and all pages displayed by Chrome, visit this blog post.

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