# Language

On this page you can set your preferred languages for the &plasma; Workspace and Applications to be displayed in.

The &plasma; Workspace and &kde; Applications are written in American English and are translated into many different languages by teams of volunteers. These translations need to be installed first before you can choose to use them.

Ensure that you have installed the &plasma; language packages or translations for the languages you want to use.

As &plasma; is build upon the &Qt; libraries, you need the &Qt; translations for the selected languages as well to have a fully localized &GUI;.

The list shows the localized language names that will be used when displaying the &plasma; Workspace and Applications. Because not all of the &plasma; Workspace and Applications may be translated into every language &plasma; will try to find suitable translations for you by working down the list until it finds a translation. If none of your preferred languages have a required translation then the original American English will be used.

You can add a language to the main list by clicking the Add language button. The localized language names of &systemsettings; translations installed and available on your system are displayed. If the language you want to use is not shown in this list then you will need to install it using the usual method for your system. Select one or more languages in the list and click Add.

You can remove a language from the main list by selecting it and then clicking on the icon. You can change the order of preference in the list by selecting a language and clicking on the icon.

Only languages with installed &systemsettings; translations will be offered as options for Primary language and Fallback language in the Switch Application Language dialog of the Help menu.

Language and Formats are independent settings. Changing a language does not automatically change the settings for numbers, currency &etc; to the corresponding country or region.