The analysis of international survey data leads to deal with cross language free responses. To conserve a CA-like approach, which is a reference methodology to analyse open-ended questions, we propose to apply multiple factor analysis for contingency tables. This methodology allows for representing the whole of the lexical tables in a same reference space, keeping CA-like features, in particular transition formulae and interpretation rules. To illustrate the interest of this approach, we use an example extracted from a large international survey in four countries. 1