How to Change the Language in Google Chrome
By: Nathan Chandler | Oct 15, 2019
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The web is a sprawling network that connects most of the world. As such, there are a whole lot of languages online, many How to delete archived emails in Gmail of which you’d never be able to understand without assistance. Fortunately, most browsers will translate other languages on the fly. Here, we’ll focus on how to do it in Google Chrome.
Translating a Page on a Desktop Computer:
Open Chrome and go to a website that uses a different language.
You should see a dialog box offering to translate the page.
Click Translate and the page will reload in your language.
If this doesn’t work, you can right-click a blank spot on the page and then click “Translate.”
Chnging Language Displayed on Desktop Browser
You can tweak whether Chrome offers to translate all the pages you read, and you can also change your preferred language.
At the top right of the Chrome browser, click Settings.
Scroll down and click Advanced.
Then click Languages and expand the Languages section on the right.
You can toggle the option that says, “Offer to translate pages that aren’t in a language you read.”
If you want to change the default language on the browser permanently to another, click Add Languages, then select your new language and click Add.
Click on the three buttons (Settings) next to the new language to determine whether to display Chrome in that new language or to move it to the top of your list of languages.
Mobile Translation
If you’re using a mobile device, the steps are similar to a computer but vary depending on your device’s operating system.