diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4474564
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "i18n"]
+	path = i18n
+	url = https://tildegit.org/southerntofu/git-build-i18n
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6b9700e..95437c1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@ Rust reimplementation of git-build.sh
 
 # Running
 
-Requires the translation files from git-build.sh. TODO: Use a dedicated repository for translations, with a git submodule
+Requires the translation files to run. They are included in a submodule, you need to use `--recursive` with git:
+
+```
+git clone --recursive https://tildegit.org/southerntofu/git-build.rs
+```
 
 ```
 LANG=fr LOG=debug I18N=~/git-build.sh/i18n/ cargo run --release
diff --git a/i18n b/i18n
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..5fd01cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/i18n
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 5fd01cce804b3863abb4f465365df8051ba86ab2