Do you know how to use two languages on Gboard keyboard? Writing in more than one language is becoming more and more common. And in Spain, where we have several co-official languages, being bilingual is quite common. Which can be quite annoying when choosing the default language of your Android keyboard.
Luckily Gboard (and most keyboards you can find in the Play Store) offers an option that allows you to have more than one language as default. So that its use is much more comfortable for you, when it comes to being multilingual.
How to use two languages at the same time on the Gboard keyboard
Advantages of adding more than one language to Gboard, Google keyboard
It is very likely that you communicate with some of your contacts in Spanish, with others in English and with others in Catalan or Galician. The option of having more than one language stored, will allow us not to have to touch the configuration, if we want the auto-corrector or text prediction to work properly.
In short, it is a function that can be especially practical for people who come from bilingual communities, for students of languages or simply for those who have friends from different countries.
Steps to add languages to Gboard keyboard
The first step we must take is to download all the languages that we are going to need. For this we must go to Settings>Introduction>Language>Add language, and then select the languages we want. You won't need to use all those languages as default later.
The second step to carry out will be to go to Language and introduction>Gboard>Languages. There we will select all the languages that we want the keyboard to remember and we will have them ready to use.
Practical additional options
With the procedure carried out previously, we will be able to use the languages that we want. And there are some additional functions that can be very practical. If in Preferences we activate the option Show key to change language, we will have the option to change language directly from the space bar.
There is also the option that the suggestions made by Gboard appear in several languages. For this we will simply have to go to:
- Gboard
- Text correction
- And once there, point to the option multilingual suggestions
If you are one of those who often use predictive text, this function will be very useful. With these two options enabled, write in multiple languages different, it becomes a very simple action.
Simply by typing two words, the keyboard itself will detect the language in which we are writing and will correct us and offer predictions based on it. An option that will undoubtedly be useful to more than one and one.
Have you tried using two languages on the Gboard keyboard? If you want to give us your opinion, you can do it in the comments section, at the bottom of the page.