# How to store languages in your translator app?

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-languages-in-your-translator-app/635084
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** design, solved, beginner
**Created:** [June 24, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-languages-in-your-translator-app/635084 "2020-06-24T17:15:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author: ![choi\_beomgyu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/choi_beomgyu/32/105994_2.png) [@choi\_beomgyu](https://community.thunkable.com/u/choi_beomgyu)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-languages-in-your-translator-app/635084/1 "2020-06-24T17:15:50Z")

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Hi,  
I wanted to know how to put different languages in your app so you can pick which language you want

 ![Screenshot 2020-06-24 at 12.15.01 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/a/3/a30693dac1c7d8ed9e41fbd012e44e60ec2cc753.png)  
I want it to set where it has more than one

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### Author: ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-languages-in-your-translator-app/635084/2 "2020-06-29T14:22:49Z")

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@choi_beomgyu I don’t fully get you here - can you change the setting in the designer to the language you want?

Or do you want to add some UI components to your app that will give your **end users** the ability to change the language, in which case you’ll need to use the blocks.

Thanks.

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### Author: ![choi\_beomgyu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/choi_beomgyu/32/105994_2.png) [@choi\_beomgyu](https://community.thunkable.com/u/choi_beomgyu)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2020, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-languages-in-your-translator-app/635084/3 "2020-06-29T16:58:48Z")

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Hey @domhnallohanlon  
Yeah i want to add some Ui components so whoever is using it can change it without going in and it only translats in one language

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### Author: ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-languages-in-your-translator-app/635084/4 "2020-06-29T19:29:59Z")

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@choi_beomgyu the easiest way then is just to have list viewer with your supported languages.

When the user selects their language then that can be used in the blocks as either the source language or the target language.

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### Author: ![choi\_beomgyu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/choi_beomgyu/32/105994_2.png) [@choi\_beomgyu](https://community.thunkable.com/u/choi_beomgyu)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-languages-in-your-translator-app/635084/5 "2020-06-29T20:03:13Z")

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but is there a block or blocks that help

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### Author: ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2020, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-languages-in-your-translator-app/635084/6 "2020-06-29T20:05:49Z")

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you can use strings for these values too, so this block:

 ![Screenshot 2020-06-29 at 21.05.12](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/a/0/a02151108ae0bb798fb62a9aee756108aa9df08e.png)

Is the same as this block:

 ![Screenshot 2020-06-29 at 21.05.19](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/1/b/1b5883afd45c49b3e340975af35837b2034166e4.png)

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### Author: ![choi\_beomgyu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/choi_beomgyu/32/105994_2.png) [@choi\_beomgyu](https://community.thunkable.com/u/choi_beomgyu)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-languages-in-your-translator-app/635084/7 "2020-06-29T20:16:25Z")

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i don’t think you get what i am saying like this

 ![Screenshot 2020-06-29 at 3.15.58 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/9/09e7d07f4576c7c6c44a79185cd36f6ffbe5d225.png)

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### Author: ![jaythemanchs](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jaythemanchs/32/92809_2.png) [@jaythemanchs](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jaythemanchs)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 10:15am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-languages-in-your-translator-app/635084/8 "2020-08-21T10:15:51Z")

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You’re going to need a list like this:

Azerbaijani, Malayalam, Albanian, Maltese, Amharic, Macedonian, English, Maori, Arabic, Marathi, Armenian, Mari, Afrikaans, Mongolian, Basque, German, Bashkir, Nepalese, Belarusian, Norwegian, Bengal, Punjabi, Burmese, Papiamento, Bulgarian, Persian, Bosnian, Polish, Welsh, Portuguese, Hungarian, Romanian, Vietnamese, Russian, Haitian (Creole), Cebuano, Galician, Serbian, Dutch, Sinhalese, Hill Mari, Slovak, Greek, Slovenian, Georgian, Swahili, Gujarati, Sundanese, Danish, Tajik, Hebrew, Thai, Yiddish, Tagalog, Indonesian, Tamil, Irish, Tartar, Italian, Telugu, Icelandic, Turkish, Spanish, Udmurt, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kannada, Ukrainian, Catalan, Urdu, Kirghiz, Finnish, Chinese, French, Korean, Hindi, Xhosa, Croatian, Khmer, Czech, Laotian, Swedish, Latin, Scottish, Latvian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Esperanto, Luxembourg, Javanese, Malagasy, Japanese, Mala,

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/2/3/23c814cd9f906677d544142ec0f7395528552343.png)

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### Author: ![lyroangeloaquino2z1z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a698b9/32.png) [@lyroangeloaquino2z1z](https://community.thunkable.com/u/lyroangeloaquino2z1z)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2021, 7:50am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-languages-in-your-translator-app/635084/9 "2021-03-02T07:50:04Z")

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does thunkable support phillipne dialect sir? im planning to do translator app for philippine dialect

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### Author: ![dhsschoolprojectsd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3e96dc/32.png) [@dhsschoolprojectsd](https://community.thunkable.com/u/dhsschoolprojectsd)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-languages-in-your-translator-app/635084/10 "2021-03-23T23:38:41Z")

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Hi! Where did you find the “from list viewer 1 set text items” block? I am unable to find it.

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### Author: ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2021, 8:45am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-languages-in-your-translator-app/635084/11 "2021-03-27T08:45:12Z")

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@dhsschoolprojectsd here it is:

[https://docs.thunkable.com/list-viewer#add-items-to-a-list-viewer](https://docs.thunkable.com/list-viewer#add-items-to-a-list-viewer)

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### Author: ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 11:25am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-languages-in-your-translator-app/635084/12 "2024-11-08T11:25:19Z")

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