ComoApp was bilingual before it was anything else. English and Bulgarian were written together, as equals, from the first line — not translated on afterwards. For a tool that people lean on to make daily health decisions, the language you read in is not a cosmetic layer. It is part of whether the guidance is safe.

Understanding is a safety feature

Health literacy — being able to find, understand and act on health information — strongly shapes health outcomes, and people generally understand and retain guidance more reliably in their first language (WHO). When advice touches food, medicines and symptoms, a half-grasped sentence is not a small thing. Reading in your own language is, quietly, a safety feature.

Nuance does not survive a careless translation

The whole point of ComoApp is nuance: this food is fine for that condition but not this one; gentle today, reintroduce later. Those distinctions live in small words — "limit" versus "avoid", "during a flare" versus "in general". A rushed machine translation flattens exactly these hinges, and a flattened hinge in health advice can send someone the wrong way. Authoring both languages together protects the meaning that matters most.

It also matters for the moments people almost skip. Someone reading in a second language may skim past a caution they would have paused on in their own — not from carelessness, but because reading in a foreign language is quietly tiring, and tired attention cuts corners. Guidance that meets you in your first language lets your attention go where it is actually needed: to the advice itself, and to the decision in front of you.

Trust is built in the reader’s own words

People are, rightly, cautious about health tools. Trust grows when the guidance sounds like it was written for you, in your language, by someone who understood the context — not awkwardly converted from somewhere else. For our Bulgarian readers, that means Bulgarian that reads naturally, uses the right register, and never feels like a second-class afterthought.

What "bilingual-first" means in practice

  • Every article and every piece of guidance is authored in both English and Bulgarian, not English-then-translated.
  • The two versions are reviewed against each other, so a change in one is reflected, with care, in the other.
  • Where a term has no clean equivalent, we choose clarity over literalness — the reader’s understanding is the goal, not word-for-word fidelity.

An honest note on how this article was made

The Bulgarian you can read alongside this English was drafted with AI assistance and is reviewed by a human before it is trusted. We think that is the honest way to work at this scale: fast enough to keep both languages in step, careful enough that a person always stands between the translation and the reader.

Guidance you half-understand is guidance you cannot safely act on. That is why the second language was never optional.

ComoApp is a wellness guide, not a medical service — and part of being a good guide is speaking to you clearly, in the language you think and worry and cook in.