inenglish.site

Why.

A response, not a product.

The annoying thing

Stated once

Germany runs on websites, and a surprising number of the ones you actually need have no English version. City services, event calendars, school portals, transport notices, the fee table for the thing you have to do this week. Some have an English button that covers the home page and gives up two clicks in. Some had one in 2019.

The people who need those pages most are the ones who read German least. Browser translation helps until it renders "Wedding" the district as a marriage, invents a fee, or breaks the form. For official information that is not good enough.

So this: proper translations, kept current, on addresses that mirror the originals. Not because it is hard. Because they could have, and didn't.

Rules of the house

Every edition
  1. Unofficial, and says so

    Every edition is labelled as an unofficial English version. The original site is named on every page and stays the binding source. Fees, dates and legal text are copied; if anything differs, the original is right.

  2. Machine translation is marked

    Where the original publisher wrote English, that text is used and marked official. Everything else is translated by a language model with a glossary and marked, with the date, as machine translation.

  3. Only the useful part

    Calendars, catalogues, service pages. Not the magazine, not the ads, not the images. Nothing here tries to replace the site it translates; it tries to get you to it.

  4. Nothing runs against the original

    Crawls are polite and identified, follow robots.txt, and never touch booking or login systems. No tracking here, no ads, no accounts.

  5. Takedowns are honoured

    If you publish one of the mirrored sites and want the English edition changed or removed, write to hello@inenglish.site. It comes down first and gets discussed second.