Guides for chatting across languages
Short answers for the places a chat in another language gets stuck: reading and replying. Free options first.
How to chat in another language on WhatsApp without copying into a translatorFour ways to read and answer foreign-language WhatsApp messages without copying them into a translator app: WhatsApp’s built-in translation, Gboard, Galaxy AI and an overlay translator.
How to auto-translate WhatsApp messages as they arriveThree ways to translate incoming WhatsApp messages automatically instead of one by one: WhatsApp auto-translate, Galaxy AI Chat translation and an overlay translator, with their limits.
WhatsApp translator apps: which one fits your situationWhich app or feature to use for translating WhatsApp chats, by situation. WhatsApp’s built-in translation, Gboard, Google Translate, Galaxy AI and an overlay translator compared in one table.
How to translate Korean chat messages and reply in KoreanHow to translate Korean messages on KakaoTalk and WhatsApp, the Korean texting abbreviations translators get wrong (ㅋㅋ, ㅇㅇ, ㄱㅅ, ㄱㅊ), and how to write a reply in Korean.
Too tired to write the reply? Hand it to AI in one lineHow to have AI write a reply in another language from a one-line note or a spoken sentence. Short instructions that work, and how to check the draft before you send.
AI replies that come out the way you askedHow to instruct AI when it writes a reply in another language for you. Put in three things: what to say, the tone, and what to leave out. With examples.
Chatting across languages: when the translation is right but the meaning isn’tPhrases that translate correctly but mean something else when you chat with someone abroad. Japanese, Korean and Indonesian examples, and how to translate so less gets lost.