How to Translate Email Text

This post shows you how to How to Translate Email Text. If your business requires you to speak more than one language, or if you get the occasional message written in a foreign language, you can use Gmail’s language translation feature to translate the message into your native or preferred language.

Gmail facilitates automatic language translation in emails. It does this by using the Google Translate service, which converts an email written in one language to another language chosen by the user. So, if you use Gmail as your email service, you don’t need a third-party translator tool to read emails written in a foreign language. You can easily read these emails right from your Gmail account.

Steps to Translate Email Text

Get a translator

There are a lot of translator apps in the App Store, but not many of them translate text right where it is written. Most translators, like Google Translate or Apple Translate, require you to copy text from an email, go to the translation app, paste the text, and get the result. If you want to reply, you have to translate in the app and do the opposite to copy the text out and into your email app.

Try Mate Translate to skip all of these steps and translate right from Gmail. Mate is different from other translator apps in that you don’t have to stop what you’re doing to use it. It’s designed to translate right where you are, so you can stay in your workflow.

Open an email in Gmail

Open an email you want to translate now that you have a translator on hand. Don’t bother looking for one in a foreign language, because we can translate from your native language to any other language as a test.

If you have an app like Google Translate, you can copy text from an email, paste it into the app to translate it, and then copy it back out. This is a lot of trouble and keeps you from getting things done in your Gmail inbox.

Translate right in Gmail with Mate

1. Highlight the text you want to translate by holding your finger on it and dragging the dots at either end to hone in on your selection.
2. Click “Share…” in the popup.
3. Click “Translate with Mate”.

FAQ

How do I automatically translate text messages?

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Translate app .
2. At the top right, tap Menu Settings .
3. Tap Tap to Translate. Enable. For Android 10 and up: Tap Paste . For Pixel 6 and up: To get quick translations, you can turn on Show floating icon.

Is there a way to translate emails in Outlook?

Click the link for View all Outlook settings in the Settings pane. In the window that pops up, click Settings, then click Mail, and then click Message handling. If you scroll down to the Translation section, you’ll find the same settings as in the desktop version of Outlook.

How do I get Google to translate text?

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Translate app .
2. Choose the languages you want to translate to and from. From: Choose a language or tap Detect language . …
3. Tap Camera. and use the Shutter Button .
4. To view Translate options, tap Expand . …
5. Select text.