Languages
OnlineMBTITest in fourteen languages, each with its own home page, test, type profiles and guides.
Every part of the site exists in each of the languages below: the sixty questions, all sixteen type profiles, the compatibility pages, the guides and the policy pages. Each name is written in its own language and leads to the home page of that version.
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How the list is written
Each entry shows the language's name the way its own speakers write it, so a reader who cannot read the current page can still find their language. The smaller line under it gives the same name in the language of the page you are on now. Choosing an entry opens the home page of that version and records the choice on this device, exactly as the language menu does.
Why these fourteen
The fourteen languages are the ones readers actually arrive in. The site once carried many more, and most of them were read by almost nobody, so the set was cut to the languages with real visits and each of those got the full site rather than a partial one. A language is added only when it can carry every page: the questions, all sixteen profiles, the guides and the policies. Offering a home page and a test in a language whose profiles stop halfway would leave a reader with a result they cannot read about.
What is the same in every language
The test is one test. The sixty questions measure the same four axes in the same order, every answer is counted the same way, and the percentages are worked out with the same formula whatever language you take it in. A result you get in Japanese means exactly what the same result means in Portuguese, and the result page of a type has the same chapters in every version: the preferences, strengths, blind spots, relationships, work and growth.
What is written for each language
The wording is written for the people who read it. Each version follows its own rules of address, its own sentence rhythm and the terms its readers already use for personality types, instead of following the English sentence by sentence. Dates and numbers follow the conventions of each language. In Arabic and Persian the whole page reads from right to left, including the scale of the test.
Type codes and names
The four-letter codes such as INTJ or ESFP are written in Latin letters in every language. They are the terms people search for and recognize across borders, so changing them would make a result harder to compare with a friend's. The descriptive name beside each code, the profile text and the six scenes are written separately for each language, with examples and phrasing that make sense to the people reading them.
Right-to-left reading
Arabic and Persian are read from right to left, and the whole layout follows. Menus open from the other side, arrows point the other way, the seven circles of the test run from right to left, and the bars on a result page fill from the right. Type codes, email addresses and web addresses stay in Latin letters inside those pages and keep their own left-to-right order, which is how readers of both languages are used to seeing them.
Switching languages
The language menu at the top of every page and in the footer moves you to the same page in another language, so you can switch halfway through reading a profile without losing your place. Your choice is remembered on this device and wins over any guess the site makes from your location. A test that is still in progress keeps its answers when you change language, and a finished result opens on the same type in the new language.
PDF and printing in each language
A result saved as a PDF or printed is set in the language of the page. For a script the PDF renderer cannot draw, the file arrives in English instead, and the result page says so beside the download button before you press it, in your own language. Printing from the browser always uses the page as you see it.
Addresses and shared links
Every language version has its own web address, so a link you send to a friend opens in the language you were reading. The pages tell search engines which versions belong together, which is why a search usually lands on the version in the searcher's own language. If a link opens in a language you did not expect, the language menu takes you to the same page in yours, and the site remembers that choice for your next visit.
Found something that reads oddly
If a sentence in your language is unclear or sounds wrong, write to us through the contact page. Paste the sentence, add the address of the page it is on and, if you can, how you would put it; a fix to one profile is carried into the other language versions where the same point is made.