I’m not sure if this directly addresses your question, but the iNat website is viewable in many languages already, with at least 30 languages (or regional variants). These can be found in the menu at the far bottom right of the screen. I don’t think it’s 100% flawless across all languages, but a nice feature is that if you’re viewing a taxon page in French, the French Wikipedia article comes up rather than English. There are some crowd-sourced efforts to translate iNaturalist: see Help us Translate. There are also apparently plans to eventually incorporate auto-translation into Comments, similar to what’s done in Facebook and Twitter, see iNaturalist 2019 Team Retreat Follow-Up, and this discussion. Translation or not, I also think it would be helpful to indicate a user’s native and/or preferred language, see this discussion.
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