Your email, native in theirs.

Write it in the language you think in. Get it back in the one they read, at the formality their market actually uses.

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What you wrote

Hi Thomas,

Quick one: we still need the signed lease before we can file. Any chance it lands this week?

Thanks!

What you can send

Beste Thomas,

Korte vraag: we hebben de ondertekende huurovereenkomst nog nodig voor we kunnen indienen. Lukt dat deze week?

Alvast bedankt,

What you wrote What you can send

Translated, then set at the register that market expects

Write in their language

Reply to an email Subject lines Notes to email

Worked example

In practice.

Where directness travels badly

English professional mail is warmer and more casual than most of its European equivalents.

A friendly English chase can read as either brusque or oddly chummy once it crosses.

What to do about it

Say who it is going toA long-standing client and a new counterparty want different forms of address
Do not export exclamation marksThey carry much less warmth elsewhere, and sometimes none
Check the formal youDutch and French both have one, and getting it wrong is the most visible error you can make
Keep the ask in the same placeMoving it to the end to seem polite is how a deadline stops being read

The usual failure is not grammar, it is calibration. A correctly translated email at the wrong formality reads worse to a native speaker than a plainly foreign one.

The workflow

How it works.

STEP 01
Write it naturally
In your own language, at your own speed. Trying to write directly in a second language is where the stiffness comes from.
STEP 02
Pick the target
Say the language and, if you know it, how formal the relationship is. Those are two different settings.
STEP 03
Read the sign-off twice
It is the line that most often lands wrong, because the neutral form differs by language and by country.

Honest limits

Where it does not help.

It is not a legal translation

Anything contractual wants a professional, in both directions.

Formality is a guess unless you say

If you do not tell it the relationship, expect the safe formal default, which can read cold to someone you know well.

Names and places stay put

Do not let a rewrite localise a company name or an address, and check them after.

Where the line sits

This page works on one paste.

The free tool

On demand

Rewrites your draft in the target language
Sets the formality you ask for
Handles the sign-off conventions
Free, no account, ten runs a day

Pidgy

Without asking

Drafts replies in the language the thread is already in
No copy-paste step in the middle
Keeps your register across languages
EU-hosted, and nothing sends without you

Cross-border mailboxes are where the paste step gets expensive. Doing it forty times a week is the argument for having it happen in the inbox.

Why it adds up

What email actually costs.

23min

to get back to what you were doing after a single inbox interruption.

Mark et al., UC Irvine

Questions

Answered.

Is it free?

Yes. No account, ten runs a day, and nothing you paste is stored.

Which languages work well?

The common European business languages. Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Polish are the dependable ones.

Does it handle the formal you?

Yes, if you tell it who the reader is. Say new client or long-standing colleague and it picks the form.

Can I check it before sending?

Put the result through the translate tool in the other direction. If the meaning comes back intact, the wording is doing its job.

Also free

Three more, same rules.

Paste something in, get something back, no account. All eleven.

Email to request list

Six obligations hide in one friendly year-end email. Watch them come out as a list.

Notes to action list

Four items, and one of them honestly marked as nobody's.

Brain dump to list

Grouped, merged, and honest about which ones are not really tasks.

One email at a time.

Pidgy drafts every reply in the language the thread arrived in, with no copy and paste in the middle.

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