Overview
Teachable makes it easy to offer a localized experience for students using built-in language support. You can automatically translate system-generated text on student-facing pages.
Key benefits / use cases
Localize your school by selecting one primary language for student-facing pages
Automatically translate system-generated text across the student experience
Make custom overrides for supported areas using the Custom Text tool
How to enable automatic translation
You can automatically translate system-generated text on all student-facing pages.
Note: These settings only affect the student experience. The admin experience is not translated.
From your admin sidebar, go to Site > Language and Text.
Under Student-facing language, choose your desired language from the dropdown.
Click Save.
Supported languages
English, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Thai, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), and Turkish.
Tip: Click Preview product catalog before saving your language to see how your school looks translated.
How translations work across pages
Newer student-facing pages—including the Student dashboard, Browse Products, and Product Detail Pages (PDPs)—are automatically translated and do not support manual text overrides.
Legacy student-facing pages can be customized using the Custom Text tool to override translated strings.
If you edited custom text before January 15, automatic translations will not be applied to any of the custom text fields.
Resetting custom text will replace your existing edits with the new translations. After resetting, you can re-edit individual fields as needed.
Example
If your school language is set to Spanish:
“My Library” becomes “Mi biblioteca”
“Free” becomes “Gratis”
See the screenshot below for a translated example of the product catalog in Spanish:
Right-to-left (RTL) language support
For languages that read right to left—such as Arabic—Teachable automatically adjusts the layout on newer student-facing pages to match reading direction.
When Arabic is selected as your student-facing language:
Page layout shifts from left-to-right to right-to-left (RTL)
Navigation, text alignment, and content flow are mirrored for readability
This applies to the latest student experience pages:
This adjustment happens automatically and does not require any additional setup.
Note: RTL layout support is only available on newer student-facing pages. Older pages and admin views remain left-to-right.
Manually translating additional content
For areas that support manual overrides—such as checkout pages, email notifications, and older student-facing pages—you can override translated text using the Custom Text feature.
FAQs
Can I mix languages—for example, use Spanish on my product catalog but English elsewhere?
Can I mix languages—for example, use Spanish on my product catalog but English elsewhere?
Not currently. The language setting applies globally to all eligible student-facing pages.