# Languages

_Mektebi 1.3 · reviewed 2026-10-24_

Mektebi speaks six languages: English, German, Albanian, French, Italian and Romansh. Each person chooses their own, and Romansh readers see German where a text is not yet available.

A mekteb often brings together families who speak different languages at home. Mektebi is written for this. The same screen can read in Albanian for one parent and in German for the muallim sitting next to them.

## The six languages

Mektebi is available in:

- English
- German, in the form used in Switzerland
- Albanian
- French
- Italian
- Romansh

The screens, the buttons, the messages, the emails and the notifications are all translated. The wording aims to sound the way people speak in the community: clear and respectful, as a mosque would write to its families, and not stiff or academic. German uses the Swiss spelling and speaks to you directly.

## How a person's language is chosen

Each person picks their own language, and it belongs to them, not to the mosque. A muallim can read Mektebi in German while the parents of the same class read it in Albanian.

- **When you are signed in**, Mektebi uses the language you chose in your settings.
- **When you are not signed in**, the website opens in a language that suits where you are, for example Albanian in Switzerland, and remembers the language you used last. In the apps, the language of your phone is used. You can always switch language on the sign-in page.
- **Messages sent to you** (notifications, emails and documents) are written in your language too, even when you are not looking at the app at that moment. If you have not chosen a language yet, Mektebi falls back to the language you used most recently.

When a mosque adds a person, for example a child or a second parent, the new login starts in the language of the person who added them. The new person can change it at any time.

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## Romansh reads German

Romansh is a small language, and not every text exists in it yet. Wherever something has not been translated into Romansh, you see the German text instead, and where German is missing too, the English one. This applies to the help guides, the videos and this book. Nobody is shown an empty page.

The same idea works for the other languages: if a guide or a chapter has not yet been translated, you get the English text and a short note saying so.

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## About the quality of the translations

The translations are prepared with care and a lot of attention to the vocabulary of a mekteb, but a translated text is not always checked by a person who speaks that language every day. Where a text has not been checked yet, it can still contain a stiff phrase or a small mistake. The English text is the original.

If something sounds wrong to you, tell the mosque or write to support@fetosoft.com. Corrections are welcome and make Mektebi better for the next family.

## What does not change with the language

The language changes the words, not the rules. The roles, the privacy rules and the grades work the same way in every language. For legal matters, the [privacy policy](/privacy), the [data processing agreement](/dpa) and the [terms](/terms) are the binding texts. If anything in this book differs from them, those texts apply.