You May Not Have To Speak The Local Language

Blogger and Google want to make their services available to the entire world - and this involves recognising that the entire world does not speak English. Not only is the English language not spoken by the majority of the worlds inhabitants, it's not even the second most common. With this detail in mind, Blogger / Google tries to display their pages in the language of the local inhabitants, based on geo location of the Internet connection.

If you are in a land not your own, and you don't speak the local language, you may not do well reading the language either. When you want to use Blogger or Google, you may need to see the initial display in English (or in whatever non local language you speak). Fortunately, Blogger and Google have provided for this situation.

• With Blogger, "http://www.blogger.com" gives you a Blogger sign in page in the local language.
  • If you need to see the sign in page in English, you can use "http://www.blogger.com/start?hl=en". The Draft equivalent, "http://draft.blogger.com/start?hl=en", may or may not work, similarly, to let us use the New GUI (2011) Blogger.
  • If you need the page in your own language, use "http://www.blogger.com/start?hl=xx", where "xx" is the code for your language.
  • To permanently set the language that you want to use, from this computer, use the Blogger Language Selection wizard.
• With Google, "http://www.google.com" gives you the page in the local language. If you need to see the page in English, you can use "http://google.com/ncr".

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