Setting your Language

The Skillsoft Percipio platform supports multiple languages. If you have been entitled to learning content available in languages other than English, a language selector displays in the top navigation so you can select your preferred language and see content in that language. By default, Percipio launches for the first time as defined by your browser language if content is available in that language, otherwise it launches in English (US).

When you select a site language from the top navigation, the Percipio interface displays in that language and shows you content in that language. If enabled for your site, Percipio can also show English (US) content if no localized content is available. If English is not your first choice, you maybe able to find translated closed captions for many Skillsoft English courses after you launch the course. Translated closed captions also has to be enabled for your site in order for you to see them.

The many languages that Percipio supports is listed in this table. In the table you will also see supported languages for translated closed captions, the AI Assistant, and for Skillsoft CAISY™ AI Simulator.

Change Your Percipio Site Language

You can change your Percipio site language at any time except while actively consuming content, for example, playing a course or listening to an audiobook. To change your language:

  1. Select the language icon, language button, black outline of globe at the top of the Percipio page.
  2. To locate your language in the list, you can scroll or search. To search, enter the first few characters in the search box. You can then pin one or more languages to the top of the list if you want to be able to quickly switch between those languages.
  3. Select an available language from the list. Percipio immediately refreshes and displays the site in the selected language.
    4. Note: Some languages may not be available to you. When you change your site language, you can only search and browse for content in the selected language. If you do not have any content available to you in the selected language, a message displays to inform you of this.

When you choose another language:

  • The Percipio interface is translated.
  • Learning content is limited to the language you chose unless the setting to allow Percipio to show English (US) content if no localized content is available is enabled.
  • The default system text in emails you receive from Percipio is translated for you based on your language selection. If your admin added custom text to a Percipio email or did not configure Percipio compliance emails in your local language, you may see the email in English.
  • You must be entitled to content in a language for that language to display in the language drop down.

To change your mobile app language, see Percipio Mobile Language Support.

Note: Language settings on web and mobile are stored separately. If you change your language on one, it does not automatically change the language on the others.

Percipio login page language

When you access the login page, Percipio automatically detects your browser language.

  • Percipio presents the login page in your browser language.
  • If language settings are enabled on your site, once you successfully log in, you can change your Percipio site language to any of the supported languages.
  • Once you successfully log in, Percipio opens in the browser language, then runs an entitlement check for your content. If you do not have any content in your browser language available to you, a message displays and changes Percipio's language setting to English.
  • Percipio presents the login page in English.
  • If language settings are enabled on your site, once you successfully log in, you can change your Percipio site language to one of the supported languages.
  • Once the language is changed, Percipio then runs an entitlement check for your content. If you do not have any content available in the selected language available to you, a message displays and changes Percipio's language setting back to English.

Most browsers have an advanced Languages setting that controls the displayed browser language. The displayed browser language may be one of several languages available, and it may be anywhere in the list order. In the image of Chrome Language settings below, the selected language is the second language in the list.

Screenshot of Chrome language settings. Spanish appears as the first language on the list and english as the second. English is the selected language that Chrome displays in.

The Percipio login page language displays in the language at the top of this language setting list, despite the language selected as the displayed browser language.

Example: In the image above, English (United States) is set as the displayed browser language. However, because Spanish is the top-listed language in the list, the Percipio Sign In page displays in Spanish.

Supported Languages

The Skillsoft Percipio platform supports multiple languages. You must be entitled to content in a language for that language to display in the language drop down. The table below lists the languages that the Percipio platform supports as well as the languages Skillsoft supports for automated closed captions, CAISY, and AI Assistant.

For more information on how to view automated closed captions in another language, see Courses with Translated Closed Captions.

Supported Percipio Site Languages Language Code Available for Automated Closed Captions^ Available for CAISY Available for AI Assistant
Arabic arb* yes yes yes
Bahasa (Indonesian) id-ID yes yes yes
Bahasa (Malay) ms-MY yes yes yes
Bulgarian bg-BG yes yes yes
Chinese (Cantonese) zh-HK no yes yes
Chinese (simplified) zh-CN yes no yes
Chinese (traditional) zh-TW yes yes yes
Croatian hr-HR yes yes yes
Czech cs-CZ yes yes yes
Danish da-DK yes yes yes
Dutch nl-NL yes yes yes
English en-US yes yes yes
English (Australia) en-AU no yes yes
English (Canada) en-CA no yes yes
English (India) en-IN no yes yes
English (New Zealand) en-NZ no yes yes
English (United Kingdom) en-gb no yes yes
Estonian et-EE yes yes yes
Finnish fi-FI yes yes yes
French fr-FR yes yes yes
French Canadian fr-CA yes yes yes
German de-DE yes yes yes
Greek el-GR yes yes yes
Hindi hi-IN yes yes yes
Hungarian hu-HU yes yes yes
Italian it-IT yes yes yes
Japanese ja-JP yes yes yes
Korean ko-KR yes yes yes
Latvian lv-LV yes yes yes
Lithuanian lt-LT yes yes yes
Macedonian mk-MK yes yes yes
Norwegian nb-NO yes yes yes
Polish pl-PL yes yes yes
Portuguese (Brazilian) pt-BR yes yes yes
Portuguese (Portugal) pt-PT yes yes yes
Romanian ro-RO yes yes yes
Russian ru-RU yes yes yes
Serbian sr-RS yes yes yes
Slovakian sk-SK yes yes yes
Slovenian sl-SL yes yes yes
Spanish (International) es yes no yes
Spanish (Castilian) es-ES no yes yes
Spanish (Latin American) es-DO no yes yes
Swedish sv-SE yes yes yes
Thai th-TH yes yes yes
Turkish tr-TR yes yes yes
Vietnamese vi-VN yes yes yes

*Percipio in Arabic is not 100% responsive when users resize browser windows.

^Automated closed captions also supports these languages:

  • Albanian
  • Amharic
  • Armenian
  • Azerbaijani
  • Catalan
  • Creole
  • Filipino
  • Georgian
  • Gujarati
  • Hebrew
  • Kazakh
  • Marathi
  • Slavic Macedonian
  • Somali
  • Swahili
  • Tamil
  • Ukrainian
  • Urdu
  • Welsh