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> **Documentation Index:** Fetch the complete configuration index at https://yandex.com/support/translate-app-ios/en/llms.txt

# Telegram bot

Translate using the [Telegram bot](https://t.me/YTranslateBot), letting you quickly respond to messages from international colleagues or friends from other countries without switching between apps. You can also add the bot to a group chat so it translates messages into the languages of the chat participants.

The Yandex Translate Telegram bot supports all the languages from [this list](https://yandex.ru/dev/translate/doc/en/concepts/api-overview#supported-languages).

## Personal chat with the bot {#private-chat}

To start working with the translator bot, follow the [link](https://t.me/YTranslateBot).

The bot supports two commands:

- `/tolang` sets the target language. For example, to translate a text into English, use the command `/tolang en`, `/tolang English`, or `/tolang Английский`. In the next message, enter and send the text you want to translate.

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    `/tolang en`

    `/tolang English`
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    Translate the message into English.
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    _Оливер, порекомендуй уютную кофейню в центре Лондона_
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    _Oliver, recommend a cozy coffee shop in central London_
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    If you want subsequent texts to be translated into English, you don't have to re-enter the command.
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    `/tolang ru en`

    `/tolang Russian English`
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    Translate from Russian into English and from English into Russian alternately.
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    _Я хочу взять такси_

    _Oliver's supposed to meet me after the flight_
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    _I want to take a taxi_

    _Оливер должен встретиться со мной после полета_
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    Translation works in both directions.
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    `/tolang cz fr en`

    `/tolang Czech French English`
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    Translate into multiple languages one by one.
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    _Оливер, порекомендуй уютную кофейню в центре Лондона_
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    _Oliver, recommandez un café confortable dans le centre de Londres_
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    The bot will translate the text into the first supported language.
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    If you haven't entered the command `/tolang` yet, messages sent in the chat will be translated into one of the two languages you use most frequently.

- `/mylang` displays the language you're using. To change it, use the command `/setmylang`.


## Group chat {#create-collection}

To add the translator bot to a group chat, go to the settings at the top of the screen, select **Add participants**, and enter **Yandex Translate**. Any chat participant can do this.

Working with the translator bot in a group chat is different from working with it in a personal chat. In group chats, the following commands are used:

- `/tolang` displays the languages used in the group chat, but doesn't set them. The list of languages for translation depends on the languages of the chat users. For example, if chat participants use Russian and English in the chat, you can only translate texts into those languages.
- `/mylang` displays the language you're using. To change it, use the command `/setmylang`.

    If a language has already been used in the chat, you can't remove it manually. If the only person who used that language leaves the chat, translation into it will be automatically turned off 30 days later.


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