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| Tupiniquim Senior Member Brazil Joined 6018 days ago 184 posts - 217 votes  Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, Russian | Message 9 of 15 01 June 2009 at 3:06am | IP Logged | ||
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5946 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 10 of 15 01 June 2009 at 8:26am | IP Logged | ||
Inside the settings there's an order of preference for languages. When you install it, it sets your interface language as default, but you can change that. I've uninstalled it, though, so I can't tell you exactly where it is. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Pyx Diglot Senior Member China Joined 5670 days ago 670 posts - 892 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 11 of 15 01 June 2009 at 11:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Preferenes -> Settings -> Content -> Languages (-> Choose)
Or something to that effect. That's the translation from German ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tyr Senior Member Sweden Joined 5717 days ago 316 posts - 384 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish | Message 12 of 15 01 June 2009 at 1:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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Its a lot of work for not much reward.
I find people of many nationalities prefer the English version anyway as their version is innacurate or just plain stupid. Changing say facebook for instance is something that I have done though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Aritaurus Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6509 days ago 197 posts - 204 votes Speaks: Cantonese, English*, Japanese, Mandarin Studies: Spanish | Message 13 of 15 05 June 2009 at 9:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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I learned hiragana and katakana by looking simply using my laptop that was purchased
in Japan. The Windows XP UI was all in Japanese and used it for about 6 months and eventually learned to read Japanese just by reading the menus alone. Putting your PC in the target language is a good way of immersing yourself in a foreign language in my opinion since you'll be looking at it and using it everyday. Edited by Aritaurus on 05 June 2009 at 9:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ptrk7 Newbie United States Joined 6592 days ago 29 posts - 29 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 14 of 15 06 June 2009 at 2:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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I probably wouldn't have an OS in the language I am learning, but I do put all
my other devices in Spanish, like MP3 player even my celluar phone sometimes. Edited by ptrk7 on 06 June 2009 at 2:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| roy2005 Diglot Groupie Hong Kong Joined 6485 days ago 70 posts - 75 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, German | Message 15 of 15 09 June 2009 at 8:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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I haven't switched to a target-language OS, but when I reached intermediate level, I downloaded the Spanish version MSN, changed the language setting of Skype and iTunes to Spanish, etc.... and I feel it has helped a lot (i.e. a useful supplement to my language studies). I'm also using a Spanish Firefox, and I don't feel there's a big problem of "assuming my location" by websites.
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