We're building Tarotas, a tarot web app available in five languages: Czech, English, Polish, Slovak, and German. The app has 78 cards, each with its own reading text, and every piece of content needed to sound natural in each language.
AI translation tools handled 80% of the work beautifully. The other 20% nearly derailed us.
Here's what we learned about using AI to translate specialized, culturally loaded content — and the system we built to keep it under control.
The Problem With Direct Translation
Tarot card names aren't just words. They carry centuries of tradition, and each language has its own established vocabulary.
