English is the default language on your Chromebook. However, you can change this to one of the available languages. 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:
- Open the Settings app.
- Click and expand Advanced.
- Click Languages and input.
- Click Languages and input on the right pane.
- Under Languages, check if you have added your preferred language. If not, click Add languages.
- Search and find your languages and click the checkbox to select it.
- Click Add.
- After adding your language to the list, click the three-dots menu against the language and choose “Show system text in this language“.
- 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.
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 ?
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.