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Discussion on: Stop setting the language of your website based on user location

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Christian Baer

I am kind of the exact opposite...
I also live in Germany. I speak German rather well, as it is my mother tongue. What I do not want, is my interfaces in German as it makes googling for problems so much harder and I do that more often than I should, probably.
So I deliberately set my OS language to English. For websites like BVG (Berlin public transport) I understand, that they are showing me the site in English. I click on "German" and I am fine. I have to do this every single time. This setting is not stored. So please (whoever this is reading) if you give your users the ability to choose a language, store that information indefinitely (or some equivalent).

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Pedro Pimenta

Yes it's the same for me. I'm Portuguese but I'm fluent I English and I have my devices in English and I prefer English languages for UI, except if they're local services. But that is an exception, I don't feel it should be the default.