How do I get a website that genuinely works in two languages, not just a translated copy?

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A bilingual website done badly is worse than an English-only one, because it tells a visitor in their own language that you didn't think about them carefully. The two failure modes are the same regardless of which tool you use: machine-translated copy that reads oddly to a native speaker, and a layout that was designed left-to-right and just gets mirrored for Arabic without anyone checking it still looks right. Audio and video in the same languages is covered in making voiceovers in Arabic, Hindi and English.

What's actually claimed versus what's documented

Wegic, an AI tool that builds a working website from a chat description rather than a drag-and-drop editor, claims "fully localized content, translation, and design" as a feature on its own marketing page, which sounds like exactly what a bilingual business needs. Here's the catch worth knowing before you commit: Wegic's own help center, which documents everything from custom domains to SEO audits in detail, has no dedicated article explaining how multilingual sites or right-to-left layout actually work in practice. That's not proof it's broken, but it is a real gap between the marketing claim and the documented, verifiable feature, and it matches exactly what more cautious reviews of AI site builders in general have flagged: multi-language support is often listed prominently in marketing copy and thinly covered everywhere else.

The practical implication: if you're betting a real business launch on Arabic-English support looking right, don't take the marketing page's word for it. Build a real draft, switch it to Arabic, and look at it yourself, specifically checking whether navigation, buttons and alignment actually flip to right-to-left correctly, or whether it's just the text that changes direction while the layout stays built for left-to-right reading.

What it would actually cost to try Wegic for this

If you want to run your own test rather than take anyone's word for it, the honest cost is Wegic's Starter plan at $39.9 a month, or $23.9 a month if you commit annually, which gets you 600 credits a month and a published site on a wegic.net address. You'd need Premium, $69.9 a month or $41.9 annually, if the test site also needs to live on your own domain rather than Wegic's. Given that you're specifically testing whether the right-to-left handling is good enough, I'd build the test on the cheaper Starter tier first; there's no reason to pay for a custom domain before you know the layout itself works.

Budget some credits for the back-and-forth too. Every chat-based edit you make while testing (adjusting the Arabic draft, fixing alignment issues you spot) draws from your monthly allowance, and testing a layout properly usually means several rounds of adjustment, not one. Pointing the finished site at your own domain is covered in putting your website on your own company web address.

How to approach a bilingual build properly

1. Decide if you need true right-to-left layout or just translated text. These are different problems. A lot of simpler tools handle "the words are in Arabic" fine while getting "the whole page reads right-to-left, including where buttons and menus sit" wrong.
2. Write the English version first, cleanly, and get the structure and content right before translating anything, since fixing structure after translation means redoing both languages.
3. Get a native speaker to translate, or at minimum review, every page, not just machine-translate it. Idiom, formality and cultural tone don't survive a direct translation, and this is exactly the kind of error that's easy to miss if you don't actually speak the language. Decks for overseas customers raise the same issue, covered in making a presentation in another language.
4. Test the right-to-left layout specifically, on a real device, checking alignment, navigation and any forms, before you consider the Arabic version done.
5. Check how language switching actually works: does it default correctly based on the visitor's browser or location, can a visitor switch languages easily, and does switching keep them on the equivalent page rather than bouncing them to the homepage.

Wegic vs. Webflow or WordPress with a multilingual plugin

Webflow and WordPress, paired with an established multilingual plugin (WPML is the most common choice for WordPress specifically), are the more proven route for this exact job. They're not AI-generated from a chat prompt, which means more setup time on your end, but multilingual and right-to-left support in that ecosystem has been battle-tested for years by businesses with exactly your requirement. You're trading Wegic's speed for a platform where "does right-to-left actually work" is a solved, documented question rather than an open one.

If your team is small (10 to 30 people, say, which is a common size for a growing regional business needing this), the honest trade-off is: Wegic might get you to a working bilingual draft faster, but you personally need to stress-test the Arabic layout before launch, since the documentation won't tell you it's fine. With Webflow or WordPress plus a mature plugin, more of that verification has already been done by other businesses before you. Once the site works, phone calls need the same treatment, as answering calls in Arabic, English and Hindi shows.

What I'd actually tell you

If Arabic-English is core to how customers will actually experience your business, not a nice-to-have, I would not launch on an unverified multilingual claim from any tool's marketing page, Wegic's included. Build the test draft, put it in front of two or three native Arabic speakers who aren't you, and only then decide whether the tool's multilingual handling is good enough to launch on or whether you need the more proven plugin-based route. The cost of checking is an afternoon. The cost of launching with a visibly broken right-to-left layout, in a market where that's noticed immediately, is a credibility hit that's much harder to undo. If you do decide to try building the test draft, do it before you've committed to a launch date, not the week of.

Common mistakes to check for specifically

• Mirrored text but unmirrored layout. The words read right-to-left but the logo, menu and buttons are still positioned as if the page reads left-to-right. This is the single most common tell that a tool's "multilingual support" is translation-only, not true localization.
• Numbers and dates in the wrong format. Phone numbers, prices and dates sometimes render in a format that doesn't match local convention even when the surrounding text is correctly translated.
• Forms that don't flip. A contact form is one of the most load-bearing parts of a small business site, and it's also one of the most commonly missed elements when a layout gets localized, since form fields are often built separately from the main page template.
• Inconsistent language switching. A visitor who switches from English to Arabic mid-browse should land on the Arabic version of the same page they were on, not get bounced back to the homepage. Test this specifically, not just the homepage in isolation.
• Images and icons that only make sense one direction. An arrow icon pointing "next" in a left-to-right layout needs to point the other way in a right-to-left one. This is easy to miss since it's a design detail, not a text one.

None of these are unique to Wegic specifically; they're the standard list of things that go wrong with right-to-left localization across almost any tool that added it as a feature rather than building it in from day one. Checking this list against your actual draft takes about fifteen minutes and catches most of the embarrassing mistakes before a real customer does.

When to skip the AI builder route entirely

If right-to-left correctness is genuinely critical (a brand launch, a flagship location, anything where a bad first impression in Arabic actually costs you credibility with Gulf customers specifically), skip the unverified-feature gamble and go straight to Webflow or WordPress with a proven plugin, or a custom build, rather than discovering the gap after launch.

How I'd approach this

When a client needs a genuinely bilingual site, especially Arabic-English for a Gulf market, I build the layout to handle right-to-left properly from the start rather than retrofitting it onto an English-first design, and I always get native-speaker review built into the process rather than treating translation as a checkbox. If you've already tried an AI builder like Wegic and the Arabic layout isn't holding up, that's exactly the kind of "half-built setup that needs finishing" I take on regularly. Get in touch if that's where you are.