Can teachers and students translate text into another language?

Yes! You can translate CommonLit texts into 36 languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, Dari, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Vietnamese.

From the text page, start by clicking the Translate button located above the questions bar.

Then, select the language you wish to translate to from the options in the drop-down.

Next, click the globe icon next to the passage you want to translate:

 Translate also works on mobile phones and tablets.

Watch this quick clip to see how translate and read aloud look on a student assignment:

Have a language you want to see added? Email us at feedback@commonlit.org. Want to fund the addition of a language to our site? Email us at partnerships@commonlit.org.