# Kibana - Is the translation to pt-BR still working the same since 2019? **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [September 14, 2021, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-the-translation-to-pt-br-still-working-the-same-since-2019/284193 "2021-09-14T14:07:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![medina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@medina](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/medina)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-the-translation-to-pt-br-still-working-the-same-since-2019/284193/1 "2021-09-14T14:07:37Z")
I need to translate kibana to pt-BR and I'm new to Kibana (and how it's plugins work). I checked this link [Translating Kibana to pt-BR - Elastic Stack / Kibana - Discuss the Elastic Stack](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/translating-kibana-to-pt-br/167113/6) and I was wondering if it still works the same way. Can I follow the steps there and make it work in 2021? ---
**Author:** ![Bamieh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bamieh/32/38730_2.png) [@Bamieh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bamieh)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-the-translation-to-pt-br-still-working-the-same-since-2019/284193/2 "2021-09-14T16:02:51Z")
Hey @medina , Thanks for reaching out. We have some documentation about how to go about translating Kibana into a custom locale. I suggest you start with the kibana public docs to create a custom plugin for the translations file to live in: [Localization for plugins outside the Kibana repo | Kibana Guide [master] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/external-plugin-localization.html) To use our existing tools to extract the default english labels in the code base, and incrementaly adding translations into your locale file please check this link: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/src/dev/i18n/README.md](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/src/dev/i18n/README.md) Some folks from the community have created custom plugins to add French locale and other languages which you can also use as a reference: - [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/32796](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/32796) - [https://github.com/pchakour/kibana\_community\_translations](https://github.com/pchakour/kibana_community_translations) - [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/32798](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/32798) Feel free to open an issue in kibana for pt-BR. ---
**Author:** ![medina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@medina](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/medina)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 7:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-the-translation-to-pt-br-still-working-the-same-since-2019/284193/3 "2021-09-14T19:31:37Z")
Thank you for the quick response. The problem is, I'm fairly new to React, and even more so to work on a huge codebase like kibana's. Is it possible to give me a high level step-by-step of what I have to do? For example, do I have to create a plugin of my own, that uses i18n somehow? How can I integrate? How is the xpack/plugins/translations plugin related to this? ---
**Author:** ![medina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@medina](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/medina)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 2:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-the-translation-to-pt-br-still-working-the-same-since-2019/284193/4 "2021-09-15T02:29:28Z")
Actually, this one did the trick [[Localization] Support for French Language · Issue #32796 · elastic/kibana (github.com)](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/32796) Still got a lot to learn on how to build plugins, but that's a start. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 2:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-the-translation-to-pt-br-still-working-the-same-since-2019/284193/5 "2021-10-13T02:29:31Z")
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