Translation into German

[PowwerBauer]

Hi everyone,

I’m using Godot in school with students, and overall it’s a great tool for teaching programming.

Unfortunately, the German translation is still very incomplete. Many menus, error messages, tutorials, and parts of the documentation switch between German and English or are not translated at all.

While this is manageable for experienced users, it makes Godot much harder to use for students, especially younger ones or those with language difficulties.

I understand that translations are community-driven and take a lot of effort. I just wanted to share this feedback, as a more complete German localization would greatly improve Godot’s usability in education.

Best regards
PB

[NathanLovato]

Thanks for the feedback and for using our app in your classroom.

I want to give you some context on why translations can only be community-driven and best-effort: this app is used in schools worldwide, but we get no financial support or contributions back from educational institutions. That includes well-funded private schools with expensive tuition. It's also not just us, this pattern is common across free educational resources and resources for open source software.

We'd happily hire translators and maintain high-quality German localization if we had funding for it. But without support from the schools and institutions using these tools, we can only rely on volunteer contributions. Providing the entire app in English for free, maintaining it, plus maintaining the French and Spanish translations in my free time is already a lot of work.

Note I'm not trying to point fingers fingers, I just think it's important for educators to understand the sustainability challenges behind the free resources they depend on. If your school would be interested in sponsoring this work, we'd be glad to make it happen. Otherwise, community contributions are always welcome.