diff --git a/packages/compiler/src/render3/view/i18n/meta.ts b/packages/compiler/src/render3/view/i18n/meta.ts
index 31e9e2bc1b..6c93cbebf3 100644
--- a/packages/compiler/src/render3/view/i18n/meta.ts
+++ b/packages/compiler/src/render3/view/i18n/meta.ts
@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@
 import {computeDecimalDigest, computeDigest, decimalDigest} from '../../../i18n/digest';
 import * as i18n from '../../../i18n/i18n_ast';
 import {createI18nMessageFactory, VisitNodeFn} from '../../../i18n/i18n_parser';
+import {I18nError} from '../../../i18n/parse_util';
 import * as html from '../../../ml_parser/ast';
 import {DEFAULT_INTERPOLATION_CONFIG, InterpolationConfig} from '../../../ml_parser/interpolation_config';
+import {ParseTreeResult} from '../../../ml_parser/parser';
 import * as o from '../../../output/output_ast';
 
 import {hasI18nAttrs, I18N_ATTR, I18N_ATTR_PREFIX, icuFromI18nMessage} from './util';
@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ const setI18nRefs: VisitNodeFn = (htmlNode, i18nNode) => {
 export class I18nMetaVisitor implements html.Visitor {
   // whether visited nodes contain i18n information
   public hasI18nMeta: boolean = false;
+  private _errors: I18nError[] = [];
 
   // i18n message generation factory
   private _createI18nMessage = createI18nMessageFactory(this.interpolationConfig);
@@ -64,6 +67,11 @@ export class I18nMetaVisitor implements html.Visitor {
     return message;
   }
 
+  visitAllWithErrors(nodes: html.Node[]): ParseTreeResult {
+    const result = nodes.map(node => node.visit(this, null));
+    return new ParseTreeResult(result, this._errors);
+  }
+
   visitElement(element: html.Element): any {
     if (hasI18nAttrs(element)) {
       this.hasI18nMeta = true;
@@ -193,6 +201,10 @@ export class I18nMetaVisitor implements html.Visitor {
       message.legacyIds = previousMessage ? previousMessage.legacyIds : [];
     }
   }
+
+  private _reportError(node: html.Node, msg: string): void {
+    this._errors.push(new I18nError(node.sourceSpan, msg));
+  }
 }
 
 /** I18n separators for metadata **/
diff --git a/packages/compiler/src/render3/view/template.ts b/packages/compiler/src/render3/view/template.ts
index 126c970212..22b69343fb 100644
--- a/packages/compiler/src/render3/view/template.ts
+++ b/packages/compiler/src/render3/view/template.ts
@@ -2073,7 +2073,22 @@ export function parseTemplate(
   const i18nMetaVisitor = new I18nMetaVisitor(
       interpolationConfig, /* keepI18nAttrs */ !preserveWhitespaces,
       enableI18nLegacyMessageIdFormat);
-  rootNodes = html.visitAll(i18nMetaVisitor, rootNodes);
+  const i18nMetaResult = i18nMetaVisitor.visitAllWithErrors(rootNodes);
+
+  if (i18nMetaResult.errors && i18nMetaResult.errors.length > 0) {
+    return {
+      interpolationConfig,
+      preserveWhitespaces,
+      template,
+      errors: i18nMetaResult.errors,
+      nodes: [],
+      styleUrls: [],
+      styles: [],
+      ngContentSelectors: []
+    };
+  }
+
+  rootNodes = i18nMetaResult.rootNodes;
 
   if (!preserveWhitespaces) {
     rootNodes = html.visitAll(new WhitespaceVisitor(), rootNodes);