How to post to facebook in multiple languages

Facebook’s a truly international site. Hundreds of millions of their users don’t speak English as a first language. You might even be Facebook friends with some of them.

To make life easier for international friends to communicate, Facebook has added features that do things like auto-translate posts in another language. If, however, you speak two languages and want to make sure that the translation for your posts is spot on, you can add one manually yourself. Here’s how.

Head to the Settings screen.

Next, select Language.

Select Post in Multiple Languages under Multilingual Posts.

Check the box that says Write Posts in More Than One Language.

Click Save Changes and now, you’ll be able to post in two different languages at once.

Head back to your News Feed and start writing a new post. Let’s write it in English first.

Next, click the little grey Write Post In Another Language.

Select the language you’re using and write a new version of your original post. I’m using French.

You can also add things like images, videos or stickers. They will appear with both posts.

Click Post and it’ll be shared on your Facebook. Anyone who views your Facebook page will see the post that’s right for them.

Here’s what I see.

But here is what my French friend Jeremy would see.

For the time being, this feature only appears to be available from Facebook’s website. If it gets added to mobile, we’ll update this article.

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Facebook has introduced multilingual support for their users to post in multiple languages. Facebook were planning on how to connect different people having different languages. For the same, the social media giant introduced multilingual support for their users. This feature was available for Facebook Page only, now they have introduced for user to post status in multiple languages on their Facebook timeline also.

In this newly introduced feature, user can type the post in English and and can add multiple languages to show the post in different languages. The other people who use any of those language in which the post was published will be able to see the post in their language.

Steps to post status in different languages on Facebook Profile

In order to post and read in different (multiple) language on Facebook, you need to do some settings in your Facebook account. Follow the below steps to achieve the same. The below procedure is done using the desktop site.

1. Navigate to the Settings in your Facebook account.

2. In left side, look for Language and click on it. On right side, you will see Multilingual Posts. If it is turned off, click on Edit.

3. check the checkbox for “Create a single post in multiple languages” and click on Save Changes button.

4. Now, go to your timeline and try to post anything, you will get the option of “Write post in another language”.

5. Once you typed in your post, click on the option “Write post in another language” & you will be able to add any language.

6. If you want to add more language, you can click on the same option “Write post in another language” & select another language. In the same way you can select two are more languages for your post.

Steps to post in multiple languages on Facebook Page

This feature helped companies having Facebook page to reach and communicate to more number of people by sharing a post on their native languages.

The procedure to post in multiple languages on Facebook page is almost same as of profile. Follow the below steps to activate the multilingual support for Facebook Page.

1. Navigate to the Settings of your Facebook Page.

2. In General section, on right side look for “Post in Multiple Languages” option and click on Edit.

3. After this, check the checkbox for “Allow people who manage this page to write posts in multiple languages” and click on Save Changes button.

4. After this you will get an option of “Write post in another language” while you try to post something on your Facebook Page similar to profile.

5. You can select the desired and multiple languages for that particular post.

This multi language feature for Facebook will help people to read and post in different languages & will connect more people who are using different languages around the world.

On Facebook there are hundreds of millions of people that don’t speak English as a first language. You might even have Facebook friends that don`t speak English. You might wonder how those people can read your posts in thier languages.

To make life easier for international friends to communicate, Facebook have features that do things like auto-translate posts in another language. If, however, you speak two languages and want to make sure that the translation for your posts is spot on, you can add one manually yourself.

1. Sign in to your Facebook & Click on “Settings”.
2. On the “Settings” screen, select “Language”.
3. Under “Multilingual Posts” Select “Post in Multiple Languages”.
4. Check the box that says “Write Posts in More Than One Language”.
5. Click “Save Changes” and now, you’ll be able to post in two different languages at once.
6. Head back to your News Feed and start writing a new post. Try to write it in English first.
7. Next, click on the little grey “Write Post In Another Language”.
8. Select the language you’re using and write a new version of your original post. For example French.
9. You can also add things like images, videos or stickers. They will appear with both posts.
10. Click Post and it’ll be shared on your Facebook. Anyone who views your Facebook page will see the post that’s right for them.

Now your French speaker friend would see the post in French & your other English speaker friends would see the post in English.

I am an admin on several Facebook pages, and have previously been able to post in different languages.

However the last year or so, it is as if this function has frozen. When I click on the “write post in another language”, I get English as a default but when trying to change or add any languages, it is as if it freezes. I can’t search for any languages at all.

I tried contacting Facebook, but they haven’t responded.

Anyone else experiencing this?

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You’ll need to be an admin to write a post for your Page in more than one language. People who view your post will see the language that’s most relevant to them based on their language settings and locale.

You’ll need to first make sure you’ve allowed posts in multiple languages:

1. Click Settings at the top of your Page.
2. From General, click Post in Multiple Languages.
3. Click to check the box next to Allow people who manage this Page to write posts in multiple languages.
4. Click Save Changes.

To create a post for your Page in more than one language:

1. Write your post at the top of your Page’s timeline. This will be the default language for the post.
2. Click Write post in another language, then click Select(down arrow symbol) and select a language.
3. Click Write post in another language to add another language or click Publish.

Note: People whose primary language isn’t included as an additional language will see the post in its default language. For example, if the default language for your post is English and you also wrote your post in Spanish and French, people whose primary language is German will see the post in English.

Now you can tell people what you had for breakfast in languages you don’t even know.

Now you can add several language translations to a Facebook post.

We hear it all the time: Facebook has 1.65 billion users worldwide. But that also implies something else that can go overlooked — there are a whole lot of languages being used on Facebook.

The social network wants to make it easier for people to communicate with a global audience — even if you don’t speak a language other than your own. On Friday, the company introduced new software that automatically translates Facebook posts to several different languages. Once you publish your post, Facebook will show it to people in their preferred languages.

Here’s how it works: Type up a post, click on a pull-down menu, and you can add up to 45 different language translations, ranging from French to Filipino to Lithuanian.

For now, the software, called the “multilingual composer,” is being tested only among a small group of users. The company has already been testing it with Facebook Pages, which are specifically for businesses and brands, but it’s now opening testing to the broader social network. The company said the feature is already being used by 5,000 Pages.

Facebook says half its users speak a language other than English. The new tool will use artificial intelligence to prefill the translation field when you add different languages to a post. Then the software uses information like a user’s location, language preferences and what language a person most commonly uses to post on Facebook to decide which version of the message to show.

Artificial intelligence is all the buzz around Silicon Valley. Google has staked its future on infusing AI into every device consumers own, with software it calls the Google “assistant.” Microsoft has invested heavily in chatbots. Facebook has done the same, with bots for its Messenger chat service that can help consumers buy things or perform customer-service tasks. The social network has also created a new Applied Machine Learning group, which is working on AI software that helps to search through photos and videos.

The move is important for Facebook’s business. The more stuff people post on the social network, the more time they may spend on the site. That’s gold for advertisers, and ads are how Facebook gets paid.

Other tech giants have used software to overcome language barriers too, including Google with its Translate app and Microsoft with its Skype Translator.

Facebook says that usually when people are trying to reach a mass audience, they type out the same message in several different languages and include them all in the same post. But that means readers have to scroll through a long post until they find the language they understand. With the new tool, a post author can also edit all the different language versions of the post simultaneously.

So if you want to reword that political rant you translated into three languages, don’t worry. You’re covered.

Posted April 8, 2016 by Lê Hoàng in Facebook, Internet

If your Facebook page attracts users from many countries around the world, writing your posts in multiple languages is a good idea. Writing posts in the same languages that your readers speak will also help your posts have higher visibility on their timelines. Continue reading to find out how to write a post in multiple languages on a Facebook Page.

1. Log in to your Facebook account, and then switch to the Facebook Page that you are managing.

2. Click the Settings button at the top right of the navigation bar.

3. Under the General section, which should be the landing page when you first visit the Settings screen, find the Post in Multiple Languages option. Click on it to expand.

4. Check the box next to Allow people who manage this page to write posts in multiple languages.

5. Hit the Save Changes button.

6. Go back to the main page by clicking on the Page button at the top left of the screen.

7. When you write a status, you will see a new option which reads Write a post in another language. Clicking on it will turn on the multiple languages feature for the upcoming status. You will be able to select the default language as well as write your status in another language by clicking on Select. The language list is sorted in no particular order.

8. Each time you select a different language, a new status box will appear beneath the current one. Repeat the step above to add more languages. When you hit the Publish button, every post will be merged into one, and the appropriate version will be displayed. For example, the English version will be displayed on the timelines of English-speaking users, while Spanish-speaking users will see the Spanish version.

The steps above describe how you can write a Facebook post in multiple languages. If you have any troubles getting it to work, feel free to let us know in the comments.

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In social media marketing, language barriers can pose a challenge when trying to reach an international audience. Your Facebook post in English may perform well in the United States, but if you run it in Japan, you neglect the larger segment of the population that aren’t fluent in English.

Facebook breaks down these barriers with their multiple languages tool. With this setting, your audience will view your post in the language that’s most relevant to them.

Some Facebook page admins may decide to go the “dark post” route. Dark posts are targeted posts set as ads that will appear on your followers’ newsfeed and will not populate your page’s newsfeed. Each language may have its own post copy and visual.

We weigh in the pros and cons of language optimisation and using dark posts on Facebook here:

The Pros:

• Target audience by language.This multi-lingual setting allows you to reach out to a wider audience with the same post, without clogging your newsfeed.
• Gain follower engagement.Providing posts in multiple languages – specific languages your page followers are likely to set when they view Facebook – will mean they are likely to engage with your post in a language they understand.
• Social proof on one post.You can see how a single post in multiple languages performs, instead of spreading it over multiple individual posts. This improves the chances that someone will engage with a post that already has some likes and comments as opposed to a post that’s just rolling past like tumbleweed in the Facebook engagement desert.
• Dark post option.Aside from this multi-language setting, you may opt to have individual dark posts in multiple languages. On Ads Manager, your dark post will have the same reporting capabilities as a regular boosted post. This will give you insights on specific post performance.

The Cons:

• Tedium of multiple dark posts.Though posting multiple individual dark posts in different languages can avoid spamming your followers on your newsfeed, it also creates multiple post IDs which can be troublesome to track after several campaigns.
• Miss out on Facebook learning.Facebook learns to match your ad objective with the right audience within the first 24 hours of publishing your dark post. Opting for multiple dark posts means targeting a smaller audience segment and each ad will limit Facebook learning and thus reduces ad spend effectiveness. It is also difficult to gauge how well a single post performs when it is spread across multiple posts with the same content.
• Effects on overall page engagement. If all posts are dark, this will limit new content from appearing on your page, which ultimately could lower overall page engagement and ranking.
• Relying on auto translation if you don’t read the language. Facebook’s feature can only automatically translate your text to the desired language, which like any other online translators out there, can get lost in translation (we’re looking at you, Google Translate*). To ensure accuracy in wordings and context, it’s best to get a proper translation done separately.

Are you ready to try this option? Follow our guide below.

First, you need to allow posts in multiple languages.

• Settings>General> Click “Posts in Multiple Languages” > Check the box next to “Allow people who manage this page to write posts in multiple languages” >SaveChanges

Secondly, create a post in more than one language.

• Draft your post. The language you use to write the post will be the “default language”. This will be explained later on.
• Click “Write post in another language”

• Click “Select”, and choose an additional language

• Facebook will automatically translate the post to your desired language, but you can insert your own translation to ensure accuracy.
• Publish your post!

How the post will be viewed:
Let’s say you wrote the original post in English and choose Spanish and Chinese as the additional languages. Facebook users with their primary language set as Spanish and Chinese will view the post in their language.

How it looks with default language in English As admin of your page, you can also view the post in the languages you’ve set after posting.

What happens to users who’ve set their primary language in another language, like German or Bahasa Indonesia? These profiles will see your post in its “default language”—English.

Use this handy tool to ensure inclusivity and expand your reach to audiences across various countries.

*A note on translation: We’ve been blessed with Google Translate, but we’re not going to use it for corporate brochures and collaterals just yet. On the other hand, getting lost in Google Translation is great for faffing about.

Now you can tell people what you had for breakfast in languages you don’t even know.

Now you can add several language translations to a Facebook post.

We hear it all the time: Facebook has 1.65 billion users worldwide. But that also implies something else that can go overlooked — there are a whole lot of languages being used on Facebook.

The social network wants to make it easier for people to communicate with a global audience — even if you don’t speak a language other than your own. On Friday, the company introduced new software that automatically translates Facebook posts to several different languages. Once you publish your post, Facebook will show it to people in their preferred languages.

Here’s how it works: Type up a post, click on a pull-down menu, and you can add up to 45 different language translations, ranging from French to Filipino to Lithuanian.

For now, the software, called the “multilingual composer,” is being tested only among a small group of users. The company has already been testing it with Facebook Pages, which are specifically for businesses and brands, but it’s now opening testing to the broader social network. The company said the feature is already being used by 5,000 Pages.

Facebook says half its users speak a language other than English. The new tool will use artificial intelligence to prefill the translation field when you add different languages to a post. Then the software uses information like a user’s location, language preferences and what language a person most commonly uses to post on Facebook to decide which version of the message to show.

Artificial intelligence is all the buzz around Silicon Valley. Google has staked its future on infusing AI into every device consumers own, with software it calls the Google “assistant.” Microsoft has invested heavily in chatbots. Facebook has done the same, with bots for its Messenger chat service that can help consumers buy things or perform customer-service tasks. The social network has also created a new Applied Machine Learning group, which is working on AI software that helps to search through photos and videos.

The move is important for Facebook’s business. The more stuff people post on the social network, the more time they may spend on the site. That’s gold for advertisers, and ads are how Facebook gets paid.

Other tech giants have used software to overcome language barriers too, including Google with its Translate app and Microsoft with its Skype Translator.

Facebook says that usually when people are trying to reach a mass audience, they type out the same message in several different languages and include them all in the same post. But that means readers have to scroll through a long post until they find the language they understand. With the new tool, a post author can also edit all the different language versions of the post simultaneously.

So if you want to reword that political rant you translated into three languages, don’t worry. You’re covered.

You have clients with different languages, so you are wondering what to do when you post on your Facebook Fan page?

If you have 2 languages, then you can display your message in the same “post”. However, to catch people’s attention, it is recommended to keep your text with a maximum of 80 characters. People will more likely take time to read it. So, if you have a post to write in 2 languages or more, and it is far too long as a text, it is then recommended to use the Facebook tool to choose your language. Thus, for example if your audience is speaking English and French, then they will see your English post for English speaking people and French post for French speaking people.

You first go on your Facebook Fan page, and click once in the box where you will insert your post. Then you click once on the arrow next to the word Public, like the image below is showing:

By clicking on the arrow, you will see the location / language mention, and then click on it. After, a new window will appear with 2 boxes: one for the location if you determine the country of the people, and the second to determine the language of your readers. It is not mandatory to fill both boxes. Then, in the 2nd box, enter the language in which you want your readers to see it, like it is shown in the image below:

Once the language is chosen, you click OK (see image below) and then you will only have to enter the text you want to appear in your post.

Is it good or not to use this function? This will depend on your audience. As I mentioned above, with 2 languages in the same post, if it is making it too long, people won’t read it so you are better with using this function. If your message is short, most of the time, I put 2 languages in one post. Why? Because with Facebook it is recognized that a post where people comment a lot and receive lots of LIKE, is more posted to the top of their Fans’ newsfeed, so automatically more seen. And by dividing your “post” in 2 with 2 different languages, the numbers will be divided.

So it’s up to you to determine whether or not it is good for you. Test it and you will see the results.