Your show is national. The person bidding may read Tamil while you write Gujarati, and the app will do a great deal for both of you — but not everything.
What the app handles
The interface, the emails, the delivery terms, the error messages. Eleven Indian languages and English. The whole story.
What it does not
Your words. A title you typed, a description you wrote, what you say on camera. Those are yours.
What survives being read across a language
Numbers and measurements. "18cm" reads the same in every language on the site. "Medium-sized" does not.
Specific nouns. "Kanjeevaram", "sterling silver", "PSA 8" carry. "Gorgeous piece" does not.
Short sentences. The longer the sentence, the more of it depends on nuance.
Photographs of the detail. The most translatable thing there is.
What does not survive
Idiom, wordplay, and the kind of enthusiastic description that is mostly tone. It is not that it offends anybody — it simply carries no information to somebody reading hard.
On camera
Hold the thing still for a beat longer than feels necessary. Point at what you are describing. Somebody following in their second language is reading your hands as much as your words.
Questions people ask
Should I write in English to be safe?
Write in whatever you are precise in. A clear Tamil description with measurements beats vague English.
Does the app translate my listing?
The interface is translated. Your own words are your own.
Does this matter if I sell locally?
Less. It matters the moment somebody three states away bids.
What about Urdu?
Right to left, and the layout mirrors. If something looks wrong, tell us — we want those.
More: eleven languages.