Seven languages from day one: Burokku in the language you read

Burokku is in English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Japanese, Korean, Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. None of them is a later version of another. A sentence Burokku says isn't finished until it's in all seven, and every change to the app is checked for it: a missing translation, or one that drops a value the English carries, stops the change.

People who hold crypto are everywhere, and a tool that watches your money is one you should be able to read without squinting. Here is what being in your language means in Burokku, and what it takes.

Whole sentences, not glued pieces

The easy way to translate an app is to translate words and join them: "Sent", then an amount, then "to", then a name. That reads well in English and badly almost everywhere else, because languages put those pieces in different orders.

So Burokku never builds a sentence out of fragments. Each one is translated whole, with the parts that change, like an amount or a token, left as places to fill in. A Japanese or Korean translator decides where the amount goes, not our English word order. Counts get their own forms too, so "1 alert" and "3 alerts" read right in every language.

A few more rules keep it honest:

• One glossary per language, so a term like health factor or approval means the same thing on every screen.
• Some things stay as written: token symbols, chain and protocol names, and other people's words, such as news, posts and project bios.
• Errors in your language. When a wallet or an exchange answers in English, you see our own sentence in your language first, with the original beside it when it's short.
• Room to grow. Screens are laid out for Spanish and Portuguese, which run longer than English, and for denser Chinese, Japanese and Korean, without cutting buttons short.

Numbers, dates and money your way

A wrong-looking number is worse than a wrong word. In English a price is 1.38; in Portuguese it's 1,38. Burokku writes every amount, percentage, date and "5 minutes ago" in your language's own format, everywhere it shows one.

Language and currency are separate choices. You might read Burokku in Japanese and think in dollars, or read it in English and think in reais. Burokku values everything in US dollars underneath and shows it in the currency you pick, from about 150:

• Today's rate for what's live: balances, net worth, prices and positions.
• Each day's own rate for a chart of the past, so a year of net worth in euros shows what the euro did too.
• Dollars for what moves or triggers: orders, swaps, fees and alert levels, so a limit you set doesn't drift with the exchange rate.

A new account starts in dollars whatever its language, because a surprise currency reads as a wrong number. Change it in Settings → Preferences. See the portfolio.

What reaches you while you're away

Translating the screens is the visible half. The other half is everything Burokku sends when the app isn't open:

• Alerts by email, push and Telegram are written in your language, with their amounts in your format.
• The weekly summary comes in your language and your time zone.
• Sign-in codes and security notices come in the language you last used Burokku in.
• The Telegram bot answers in your account's language, or your Telegram app's if it doesn't know yours yet.
• Burokku AI replies in the language Burokku is in, and switches when you do, keeping token symbols and chain names as they are. See Burokku AI.

An alert about a loan near liquidation is the one message you can't afford to misread. See alerts.

News and research in the language you choose

Research and news come from Qoory, our sister product, and read in your language by default. Headlines, narratives and project summaries are translated where they can be; a story that hasn't been is shown as it was written, in English or, for Chinese readers, in Chinese.

You can also pick a different language for news alone. Someone who uses Burokku in English might want news in Japanese, or the other way round. Choose it under "News and research in" in Settings → Preferences, and news alerts follow it. See research.

Each script its own typeface

The same Chinese character is drawn differently in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Japanese, and Korean has its own letters. Burokku loads each of these languages' own typeface with its words, so a Japanese reader sees Japanese forms, not Chinese ones that look slightly off.

Chinese, Japanese and Korean also get no capital-letter styling or tight letter spacing, which only make sense in Latin scripts, a little more line height for reading, and Korean lines that break between words rather than inside them.

Picking your language

Burokku starts in your browser's language when it's one of the seven: any Spanish reads as Latin American, any Portuguese as Brazilian, and Chinese from Taiwan, Hong Kong or Macau as Traditional. To change it, use the language menu in the top bar, the More menu on a phone, or Settings → Preferences. The page waits until the new language is in, so it never shows half translated, and keeps your place.

If a translation reads wrong to you, or a term isn't what people in your market say, tell us. The first post covers what else Burokku does.