Whoever wants to book an appointment at the office doesn’t always speak English. In this lesson, the Kladde’s public pages get a German version:
The home page is then also under /de, the booking under /de/appointment. Dates and times appear as they are written in the respective
language, a switch leads to the other language, and a test makes sure that no text exists in only one language. The internal area stays
English; the office works in English.
This course’s Kladde is English first, so here English is the base and German is the second language. The lesson’s German texts are the foreign example, as de-DE was in modules 1.2 and 1.3.
What is translated and what isn’t
What is translated are the texts that the Kladde writes itself: headings, labels, buttons, messages, the title in the browser tab. Data isn’t translated: A contact is called “Mara Feld” in every language, and an appointment with the title “Team meeting” doesn’t become “Teambesprechung”. Dates and numbers sit between the two. They are data, but how they are written depends on the language.