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How to Change Language on Chromebook

July 30, 2020 by Dinsan Francis Updated on: 9:37 am 2 Comments

English is the default language on your Chromebook. However, you can change this to one of the available languages. This article will show you how to change the language on a Chromebook.

With that, all your system information, settings, and notifications will start displaying in the new language.

How do you do that? Let me show you.

Change language on Chromebook

To change the language on your Chromebook:

To access your Chromebook’s touchpad settings:

  1. Open the Settings app.
  2. Click and expand Advanced.
  3. Click Languages and input.Chromebook Language Settings
  4. Click Languages and input on the right pane.
  5. Under Languages, check if you have added your preferred language. If not, click Add languages.Add languages
  6. Search and find your languages and click the checkbox to select it.Chromebook add language
  7. Click Add.
  8. After adding your language to the list, click the three-dots menu against the language and choose “Show system text in this language“.Chromebook show system in new langauge
  9. Restart your Chromebook.

After the restart, you will see your Chromebook’s interface and notifications using the new language.

Did you get it to work? Let us know in the comments for any follow-up questions. Were you looking for the official documentation for language on Chromebook? Click here.

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About Dinsan Francis

Content Developer and Digital Minimalist. Loves testing new Chromebook features and writing about them. Favorite Chrome OS Channel is Canary. | Twitter

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  1. Guy DERIDET says

    August 1, 2020 at 2:02 pm

    Hi Francis,
    My problem with my Chromebook is that I’m French and live Spain. No problem at the beginning but with time Chrome forgets and doesn’t translate in French anymore.
    How can I force Chrome to translate always Spanish to French ?

    Reply
    • Dinsan Francis says

      August 2, 2020 at 4:23 pm

      Try this: go to chrome://settings/languages and make sure that French is not listed as a language that you know. Also, “offer to translate pages …..” should be enabled.

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