1. After building your form, navigate to the Settings > Translation & Messages > Translation from the left menu.
   
2. Click Start Translating.
   
   
3. Under Language Translation,  Zia AI will be selected by default and auto-translates the form using Zoho's built-in AI. No third-party setup required. You can also choose from 2 other options:

   1. Google Translation: Auto-translates the supported languages using Google Cloud Translation API. Learn more
   2. Custom Language: Lets you manually enter all translated content. Use this for languages not in the supported list. Learn more 
      
      

   
   
4. In the Form Language dropdown, you can choose to change the default form language.
   
   Note: The Form Language dropdown reflects the default language you set in your form's display settings. This language becomes uneditable once you create translations, as it serves as the source for them. Th change the default language, you must update the Form Language setting under General > Display before you begin adding any translations.
5. In the Translate To dropdown, select the language you wish to translate your form from the list of languages. 
   
   
   
   
   
   

   Note: If you do not find the language of your choice in both Zia AI and Google Translation dropdown list, you may manually translate the form into any other language using the Custom Language option.
6. Click Translate.
   

7. In the Translation Settings pop-up, you can view the translation applied to your form and modify the translated content as required under the following sections:
   

   Form Content
   Under this section, you can change the translated versions of the Form Name, Form Description, Form Tab Title Save, Review, and Submit buttons. 

   Field Content
   Under this section, you can modify the translated content for the field labels, field elements, field instructions, choices of choice-based fields, navigation buttons of a multi-page form, Subform field labels, etc.

   

   Note: If you have customized the field labels, or applied text formatting to the content in the  Description and  Terms and Conditions  fields while building your form, the customization will not be carried over to the translated version. You will have to re-apply the same to the translated content. 

To translate your form into more languages, repeat the above steps. Once you translate the form, you can view a list of all the languages that your form is translated into under Translated Language(s).

Show translated languages in the live form

You can display the translated languages directly in the live form (shared publicly or privately) for your respondents to choose from to enhance the form's accessibility and user experience. To do this, enable the Show translated languages in the form.

1. You expand your audience to include respondents from diverse linguistic backgrounds.
   
2. Respondents choose the language they're most comfortable with, making the form easier to understand and complete.
   

Note:

1. If you have modified the content of your form after saving the configuration for a language translation, you will have to re-translate the modified content for the changes to reflect in the live translated form.
2. To customize alerts and error messages, use the custom messages  option under Settings > Translation & Messages and translate the error messages to the desired language.  
   

If you have configured  Language Translation for your form, the merged field responses in the merged documents will be in the same language as entered by the respondents. To merge translated form responses for the following fields while creating merged documents using Zoho Writer templates, enable the Send picklist values in form's translated language option for:
-Choice-based fields 
-Dropdown in Matrix Choice field
-Title in Name field
-Country list in Address field 

Text Direction

Sets the reading direction for the translated form.

1. Click the Text Direction icon next to the language.
2. Select either:
   

Edit Language Name

1. In the Translated Languages list, click the more options icon (⋮) next to the language.
2. Select Edit Language Name.
3. In the Edit Language Name dialog, enter a preferred name in the Language Name
    field.
   
   
   
   
4. Click Save.
   

Note: Renaming allows you to change the language's display name in the live form. The language code remains unchanged.

Delete Translation

1. Click the more options icon (⋮) next to the language.
2. Select Delete Translation.
3. Confirm the deletion in the dialog that appears.