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Multilingual Surveys

PAID FEATURE: Multilingual Surveys is only available on some paid plans—see if it’s on your plan.

You can create a multilingual survey by adding more survey languages to your survey and providing your own translations. With a single survey, you can reach everyone in the language they're most comfortable with—and analyze all your results together as a single data set.

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How It Works

You can let survey takers choose their preferred language from a dropdown menu on the survey, or send a special link for each language that opens the survey in that language automatically.

It's easy to set up:

2 Finalize your survey design and collector options

2 Add a language

2 Download the translation file for that language

2 Add your own translations to the file

2 Upload the translated file to SurveyMonkey

 

Adding a Language & Downloading the Translation File

Once you add a language to your survey, you can download the translation file for that language and start working on translations.

Wait Until Your Survey & Collector Options are Finalized! Before adding another language to your survey, finalize all your survey text in both the Design Survey and Collect Responses sections, since the translation file includes text from both places. It’ll save you time to do all the translations at once.

To add a survey language:

  1. In the Design Survey section, click Options in the left sidebar.
  2. Click Language.
  3. Choose the default survey language from the dropdown—this is the language you'll base the other translations on.
  4. Click + Language to open the Survey Languages window.
  5. Click + Language.
  6. Choose a language from the dropdown—you can also search!
  7. Click Add.
  8. Click ¡ Download to download the translation file to your computer.
  9. Click Done.
  10. Read the next sections to learn how to open the file, translate the file, and upload the file back to SurveyMonkey.

Dialects & Locales

Some languages have different dialects based on country or region. For these languages, you can click the + Locale option and choose the specific dialect or locale you'd like to provide translations for.

Right-to-Left (RTL) Languages

If including RTL languages, like Hebrew or Arabic, make sure to make it your default survey language. This ensures that your RTL text and other languages display properly.

 

Opening & Translating the File

Opening the PO File

The translation file is in PO format (with .po file extension), which is often used in specialized translation software to maintain translations on multilingual websites.

You can use a text editor to open the file or use a translation software like Transifex or Poedit to translate the PO file in a more user-friendly interface. From there you can export the translated PO file, and upload it back into SurveyMonkey. These tools offer more collaboration and status tracking features that make it easier to translate large-scale projects.

Understanding the PO File & Adding Your Translations

When you open the PO file in a text editor, you'll see a lot of code—but don't worry! You don't need to know how to code in order to translate the file. You only need to focus on two parts:

KeywordDescription
msgidYour survey text, in the default language.
msgstrThe translation.

You'll see msgid and msgstr repeated throughout the file for every piece of text that appears in your survey.

To add your translations to the file:

  1. For each piece of survey text (msgid) in the file, check the translation (msgstr) that immediately follows it:
    • If the double quotes are empty, it means that you'll need to provide your own translation for that text in between the double quotes.
    • If the double quotes have a translation already, it means we've done some of the work for you! We prepopulate the file with some translations for default survey text.
  2. When you're done adding all your translations, save the file.
  3. Read the next section to learn how to upload the translations.

Examples

Here are a few excerpts from a PO file where the default survey language is English, and you're translating it to Spanish. These examples should help you understand how to read the PO file, and how to add your translations in the right place.

Prepopulated Translations

In this excerpt of the PO file, the text is already translated. You can tell because the double quotes next to each msgstr are already filled in with translated text (highlighted in yellow). In this case, you could either keep the default translations, or edit them however you'd like.

msgctxt "{\"checksum\": 3764012647, \"cxt\": \"survey_next\", \"id\": 120907390}"
msgid "Next"
msgstr "Próxima"


msgctxt "{\"checksum\": 3722898670, \"cxt\": \"survey_done\", \"id\": 121029320}"
msgid "Done"
msgstr "Listo"

Check out Changing the Survey Language to get an idea of what kind of text we provide default translations for.

Untranslated Text

In this excerpt of the PO file, the text is untranslated. You can tell because the double quotes next to each msgstr are empty. You can enter your own translations by adding the translated text in between the double quotes.

msgctxt "{\"cxt\": \"question_heading\", \"id\": 153369978}"
msgid "Which planet is closest to the Sun?"
msgstr ""


msgctxt "{\"cxt\": \"question_option_text\", \"id\": 1112152313}"
msgid "Venus"
msgstr ""


msgctxt "{\"cxt\": \"question_option_text\", \"id\": 1112152314}"
msgid "Mercury"
msgstr ""


msgctxt "{\"cxt\": \"question_option_text\", \"id\": 1112152315}"
msgid "Mars"
msgstr ""


msgctxt "{\"cxt\": \"question_option_text\", \"id\": 1112152316}"
msgid "Earth"
msgstr ""
Adding Your Translations

The text highlighted in yellow shows where you'd enter your own translations—in between the double quotes.

msgctxt "{\"cxt\": \"question_heading\", \"id\": 153369978}"
msgid "Which planet is closest to the Sun?"
msgstr "¿Qué planeta está más cerca del sol?"


msgctxt "{\"cxt\": \"question_option_text\", \"id\": 1112152313}"
msgid "Venus"
msgstr "Venus"


msgctxt "{\"cxt\": \"question_option_text\", \"id\": 1112152314}"
msgid "Mercury"
msgstr "Mercurio"


msgctxt "{\"cxt\": \"question_option_text\", \"id\": 1112152315}"
msgid "Mars"
msgstr "Marte"


msgctxt "{\"cxt\": \"question_option_text\", \"id\": 1112152316}"
msgid "Earth"
msgstr "Tierra"

If you want to learn more about the PO file format, Pology is a great resource.

 

Uploading Translations to SurveyMonkey

Once you save your translated PO file, go back to SurveyMonkey and upload the translations to your survey.

To upload your translated PO file to SurveyMonkey:

  1. In the Design Survey section, click Options in the left sidebar.
  2. Click Language.
  3. Click Edit Languages to open the Survey Languages window.
  4. Next to the language you want to upload, click c Upload translation.
  5. Upload your translated PO file.
  6. The language is automatically enabled and ready to go, but you can click the toggle to disable the language if you want to wait before making it live.
  7. Check to make sure that the file is 100% translated. If it says anything less than 100%, you're missing translations for some of your survey text. Learn how to add missing translations below.
Adding Missing Translations

To add missing translations:

  1. Click ¡ to download the current translation file.
  2. Translate the remaining text in the file.
  3. Save the file.
  4. Go back to the Design Survey section in SurveyMonkey and click Options > Language > Edit Languages.
  5. Click Replace file.
  6. Upload the updated file.

 

Managing Translations

Learn how to manage existing languages and translations you've added to your survey.

Replacing or Updating Translations

To update or replace an existing translation:

  1. In the Design Survey section, click Options > Language > Edit Languages.
  2. Click ¡ to download the current translation file.
  3. Update the translations you want to change.
  4. Save the file.
  5. Go back to the Design Survey section in SurveyMonkey and click Options > Language > Edit Languages.
  6. Click Replace file.
  7. Upload the updated file.
Disabling a Language

Disabling a language will hide it from people taking your survey, but you'll be able to enable it again at any time.

To disable a language:

  1. In the Design Survey section, click Options > Language > Edit Languages.
  2. Click the toggle to the right of the language you want to disable.

You can enable the language again by turning the toggle back on.

Deleting a Language

Deleting a language removes all translations in that language. New people won't be able to take the survey in that language, but any responses you received in that language so far won't be affected—they'll remain in your results.

To delete a language:

  1. In the Design Survey section, click Options > Language > Edit Languages.
  2. Click # to the right of the language you want to delete.
Changing the Default Language

Changing the default language changes the language that the survey will open by default. It also changes the source language that the other translations are based on.

Changing the default language will delete all existing translations—you'll need to redownload the PO files and upload new translations.

To change the default language:

  1. In the Design Survey section, click Options > Language > Edit Languages.
  2. Under Default Survey Language, click Change.
  3. Read the warning and click Continue.
  4. In the Options section, choose a new default language from the dropdown.
  5. Click + Language to start adding more languages.

 

Sending a Multilingual Survey

You can send a multilingual survey with any collector type, but the Web Link is most flexible option because you can send people directly to a specific language version of your survey by using language links.

A language link will open the survey with the specified language automatically selected, so people taking your survey don't need to select their preferred language from the dropdown themselves. This is a great option if you plan on sending your survey to different language cohorts separately.

The base URL of each language link is the same as the main survey link, so using language links doesn't create separate collectors. All your responses will still be associated with the same collector.

To get a language link:

  1. Create a new Web Link.
  2. Under the main survey link, click Language Links.
  3. Click Copy next to a language link to copy it to your clipboard.
  4. Share it anywhere!

 

Analyzing a Multilingual Survey

When you analyze your results, all the responses across languages are merged together as one single data set.

Throughout your results, the question text and answer choices will show in the default survey language, but they represent all responses to your survey—regardless of what language the survey taker selected.

To see which language each respondent used to take the survey, export All Responses Data in XLS, XLS+, or SPSS format.

 

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