Your Joomla website can be set up as a multilingual website.

You can download your chosen Language Pack and set up your website so that it can be viewed in the chosen language of your website visitor, providing that language is installed and set up.

Your Language Switcher Module allows you to take advantage of the language tags that are available when content, modules and menu links are created.

This Module displays a list of available Content Languages for switching between them.

When switching languages, it redirects to the Home page, or associated menu item, defined for the chosen language.

Thereafter, the navigation will be the one defined for that language.

Creating a multilingual Joomla website can be quite complex and may be a task to undertake once more familiar with Joomla.

The 'System - Language Filter' Plugin must be enabled for this Module to work properly.

Here, we show you an example Language Switcher Module - the Module title (Language Switcher in our example image) can be changed to whatever you want to call it. The image below is an example of what your site visitors (frontend) will see.

In Joomla, Modules are created and managed via the Administrator area.

Site Modules - Language Switcher Modules Related Help Resources (Generic) Modules Modules - Options
Languages Help Resources
Languages - Content Languages - Options Languages - Installed Languages - Overrides Extensions - Languages Languages - Edit Override Languages - Edit Content Language
Multilingual Help Resources
Multilingual Associations Multilingual Associations - Edit Multilingual Associations - Options Admin Modules - Multilingual Status
Further Reading
You might be interested in reading two of our other articles Languages Multilingual Associations