Communicate with families in their home languages to build strong partnerships all year long. Join the millions of teachers and parents who already use TalkingPoints.
TalkingPoints is a non-profit organization solely focused on family engagement for families of under-resourced, multilingual communities.
Highest-quality translation
The only platform investing in enhanced translation, contextualized for education, using human translators and AI.
Seamless multilingual communication
Two-way communication with all families in more than 100 home languages.
Easy to use for families
Communication is as simple as texting. Families can also use an optional Android/iOS app.
How it works
Always free for teachers! Available on the web and mobile app
Easy to use
Teachers can use a web browser or mobile app; families text or can use a mobile app.
No language barriers
Interact with any family member in their home language - you write in English, families message back in their own language.
Meaningful family engagement
Teachers and families find in-app tips and guidance to support positive relationship-building.
English
Spanish
Arabic
Vietnamese
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Somali
French
Portuguese
Burmese
Swahili
Nepali
Russian
Korean
Hindi
Albanian
Khmer
Tagalog
Japanese
Farsi
Urdu
Haitian Creole
All available languages
At TalkingPoints we are working hard to reduce the language barrier for non-English speaking parents of diverse backgrounds. We are currently offering message translation in over 100 languages on our platform.Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Burmese
Cabo Verdean Creole*
Cambodian (Khmer)
Catalan
Cebuano
Chinese (Simplified/Mandarin)
Chinese (Traditional/Cantonese)
Corsican
Croatian
Czech
Dari
Dutch
English
Estonian
Farsi (Persian)
Filipino (Tagalog)
Finnish
French
Frisian
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Haitian Creole
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hindi
Hmong
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kannada
Karen*
Kazakh
Kinyarwanda
Korean
Kurdish
Kyrgyz
Lao
Latvian
Lithuanian
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Maori
Marshallese*
Mongolian
Nepali
Norwegian
Nyanja (Chichewa)
Odia
Pashto
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Samoan
Scots Gaelic
Serbian
Sesotho
Shona
Sindhi
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Sundanese
Swahili
Swedish
Tajik
Tamil
Tatar
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Turkmen
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uyghur
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zulu
*District messaging only; contact us for details.