SurveyMonkey

You can create your survey in any language yet SurveyMonkey streamlines survey creation in 57 supported survey languages.

You'll provide the text for your survey, like the title, questions, and answers, in any language you like. When you update the Language for your survey, certain default survey text—like navigation buttons and the survey end page—are translated automatically for you.

If you don’t see the language you want to use in the Default survey language dropdown, you can Add another language to create a Multilingual Survey, potentially with multiple survey language options for respondents to choose from.

To update the survey language:

  1. Click the Design Survey tab.
  2. Click Options.
  3. Click Language.
  4. Select a Default Survey Language from the dropdown and choose a supported survey language. If the language you wish to use isn’t in the dropdown, you can Add a language and provide your own translations.

You also can choose your SurveyMonkey account language to update the languages within SurveyMonkey.

When you make a question required or add validation to a question, we automatically add an error message in the current survey language. Error messages let respondents know if they fill out a question in the wrong format, or if they skip a required question.

When you change the survey language, error messages for existing questions do not automatically update to the new language, so you'll need to go back and update them.

To update existing error messages to match the new survey language:

  1. In the Design Survey section, click a question to edit it.
  2. Click the Options tab.
  3. Deselect the Require an Answer to This Question or Validate Answer for a Specific Format option.
  4. Click Save.
  5. Edit the question again and click the Options tab.
  6. Reselect the Require an Answer to This Question or Validate Answer for a Specific Format option.
  7. Click Save.

The error message will now appear in the current survey language.

You can change the survey language to RTL languages such as Arabic and Hebrew and write survey question text from right to left. However, it's not possible to adjust the survey layout to display question numbers, matrix rows, labels, and navigation from right to left.

To make the survey language RTL:

  1. Change the survey language to a RTL language.
  2. Click a question to edit it.
  3. Highlight the text you want to make RTL.
  4. Click the right to left icon in the formatting toolbar.
  5. Click Save.
  • Click here to view all supported survey languages

We provide translations for the following default survey text for supported survey languages: