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Many new languages are available :D

We have listened to all of your feedback. Many of you wanted more languages for the site so we have added a total of 32 new ones. Now there are 36 languages available!

Please note that only English, Spanish and French are officially updated by us, the other languages are collaborations done by the community and we are not responsible.

• TLS support for emails, so now you can use any email provider that has this feature
• RSS for user ads, if the URL of the user is https://testing.yclas.com/user/gary-doe the RSS is https://testing.yclas.com/user/gary-doe.xml
• Faster sites! Combined CSS and JS running directly on a CDN thanks to deliver
• Improved 404 pages, now you can translate the title and it appears the referred page
• Search to translate, now you can search by keywords to make it easier to find the word to translate
• Banned words validation on the client-side

Running a multilingual marketplace in 2026: why it pays and how to set it up

Since this post first came out, Yclas has grown from 36 to more than 40 languages, including right-to-left scripts (Yclas features). In the redesigned admin panel the screens have also moved. You now choose your site's main language and edit the wording under Settings > Translations. The Multilingual switch and the list of extra languages are under Settings > General > Languages.

Why language is worth the effort

English is still the language of about half the web, but the other half is large and spread out. W3Techs' figures for 8 October 2026 put English on 49.5% of websites, then Spanish (6.0%), German (5.9%), Japanese (4.9%), French (4.5%), Portuguese (4.1%) and Russian (3.4%). Buyers care about this. In CSA Research's "Can't Read, Won't Buy" survey of 8,709 shoppers in 29 countries (July 2020), 76% preferred to buy products with information in their own language, and 40% said they would never buy from a site in another language. A local classifieds site that speaks its users' language is not a nice extra. It is the reason people stay.

A practical checklist

• Pick one main language first. Choose it in Settings > Translations before you import or post ads. With Multilingual switched on, each ad is shown in the language it was posted in, so if you later change the main language, ads posted in another language are hidden.
• Add extra languages only where you have users. In Settings > General > Languages, list only the codes you will really support (for example en_US,es_ES). A half-translated site looks worse than a single-language one.
• Check the wording that matters. Community translations are a good start, but use the editor in Settings > Translations (it has search) to fix the words visitors see most: the post-an-ad button, category names, prices and the contact form.
• Copy your email templates. Emails are created in British English (en_UK). If your site runs in another locale, use the copy button on the Emails page to duplicate the templates to that locale, so you can edit what your users actually receive.
• Keep each language reachable by URL. Google's guidance (updated 10 December 2025) recommends a separate URL for each language version rather than cookies or browser settings, and advises against automatically redirecting users from one language version to another. Yclas can switch language with a ?language= parameter. Link to each version from your menu or footer so both visitors and Google can find it, and use browser-language detection with care.

Full list of available languages (soon with demo)

1. English US
2. English UK
3. Spanish
4. French
5. Arabic
6. Albanian
7. Bengali
8. Bulgarian
9. Catalan
10. Chinese
11. Croatian
12. Czech
13. Danish
14. Dutch
15. Filipino
16. Hungarian
17. German
18. Greek
19. Indonesian
20. Italian
21. Japanese
22. Malayalam
23. Norwegian
24. Filipino
25. Polish
26. Portuguese
27. Romanian
28. Russian
29. Serbian
30. Shona, Zimbabwe
31. Slovak
32. Swedish
33. Tamil
34. Turkish
35. Urdu
36. Vietnamese