How to Translate Medium From Chinese to Spanish (Step-by-Step)

Chinese-language content on Medium is rich and worth reading. If Spanish is your stronger reading language, the usual friction applies: copy the text into a translator and lose the layout, or read slower than you would like.

This guide shows a third option — translate the Chinese article in place, directly into Spanish, with bilingual translation. The Chinese stays visible and the Spanish meaning appears right beside it, so you can read the meaning quickly and still check the original for any word, name, or phrase.

Demo note: the screenshots below are built in a real Medium layout to show exactly how BothLang displays a bilingual page — the Chinese paragraph on top and the translated Spanish directly beneath, with a hand-drawn arrow pointing at the translation.The workflow is identical on any article because BothLang works on whatever page you are viewing.

What you need

• BothLang installed in Chrome, Edge, or Firefox — see the download page.
• The extension pinned to your toolbar.
• A Chinese-language article open in a tab.

Step 1 — Open the Chinese article

Open the Chinese piece you want to read.

Step 2 — Set Spanish as your target

Click the BothLang icon. Set Translate into to Spanish and Page display to Bilingual.

Step 3 — Translate the page

Click Translate Now. BothLang places a Spanish translation directly beneath each Chinese paragraph, leaving the Chinese intact. A hand-drawn arrow marks the first translated paragraph.

Step 4 — Switch reading modes

• Bilingual — source and translation together.
• Translation only — fastest.
• Original only — back to clean Chinese.

The short version

1. Install and pin BothLang.
2. Open a Chinese article.
3. Set Translate into: Spanish, Page display: Bilingual.
4. Click Translate Now.
5. Read the Spanish with the Chinese original underneath.

Try it on your next Chinese-language article.