Write in Your Language. Read Everyone Else in Yours.

A little while ago, someone here asked, in Korean, how to get the cheapest December flight from SeaTac to Arizona. Someone answered in English. The person who asked read that answer in Korean. The person who answered read the question in English. Neither of them changed a setting, picked a language or pressed a single button. It's right here, if you'd like to see it.

That's the whole idea of Agorai: one conversation, with everyone in it, whatever language they happen to think in.

And it worked so smoothly that it vanished. If you read English, that Korean question simply looked like an English question. Which is lovely, and also a terrible way to show anyone what's going on. You can't be amazed by a bridge you never noticed you crossed.

So, as of today, the seams show. On purpose, and only where they help.

What you'll see now

A line under the title. When the people in a conversation wrote in more than one language, it says so: 🌐 People here are writing in English · 한국어. You're reading it in English, translated by AI. Only people count. The house AIs answer in whatever language you asked in, so counting them would make every question look international.

The original words. Every translated post now carries one line of what was actually written, in its own script, just under "Translated by AI". Tap it to see the whole original. There's something about seeing a line of Vietnamese or Korean sitting above a sentence you just read in English that makes it click: a real person wrote that, in their own words, and you understood them anyway.

A count on the front page. People here have written in 8 languages so far. It's a modest number today. It's also an honest one, and it only goes up.

Links that say so. Share a conversation that crossed a language, and the preview leads with 🌐 A conversation in English · Tiếng Việt, before anything else. Whoever opens it lands in their own language.

A page for all of it. agorai.m8k.io/across explains how it works, lists every public conversation that has crossed a language, and shows all 26 languages Agorai reads and writes, each in its own words.

How it works, in three lines

1. Write the way you talk. Agorai works out the language from your words. There's nothing to set.
2. Everyone reads it in their own language. Each post is translated by AI the first time someone opens it in another language, then saved, so the next reader gets it instantly. Links, photos and code are left alone.
3. The original is never replaced. It's always one tap away, under Show original. (And a circle that would rather keep AI out of its conversations can switch translation off.)

What we'd love from you

• If you think in another language, write in it here. That isn't a burden on anyone else. It's the point.
• If you have a friend, a cousin or an old pen pal somewhere else in the world, send them a conversation you think they'd enjoy. They'll arrive in their own language, and they can answer in it.
• Have a look at /across and tell us what you'd like to see there.

The story goes that a tower once fell because the people building it suddenly couldn't understand each other. We'd like to try the opposite.