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[2023] How to Change the Language on Windows 11

By Sophia | Last Updated

Do you know how to change the language on your Windows 11? If you wondering how to do it, check our guides step-by-step here.

  1. Option 1: How to Change the Display Language on Windows 11
  2. Option 2: How to Change the Administrative Language on Windows 11
  3. Option 3: How to Change the Keyboard Language on Windows 11

how to change the language in Windows 11

Option 1: How to Change the Display Language on Windows 11

If you want to change the preferred language on your Windows 11 PC but you don't have a new display language that you want, you should add a language first to your PC. In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to add and display a language on Windows 11.

Step 1: Press Win+I to directly go to Settings . Then click Time & language in the left hand pane. In the right hand pane, click on Language & region.

click Language&region

Step 2: Click on Add a language next to Preferred languages.

click on Add a language

Step 3: Choose a language you want to display on your Windows 11 PC and click Next to continue.

choose a language to install and click next

Step 4: After entering the language you want, you can check Set as my Windows display language, by doing so, when you completed the language settings, the new language you add should be the default language of the Windows 11 system. After that, click Install on the bottom of this screen.

check Set as my Windows display language

Step 5: Now the language package is downloading, and you need to wait while the language finishes installing.

wait for starting install language package

Step 6: A few minutes later, the language is completely installed on your computer. Click Sign out when a prompt appears asking you for sign out in order to apply your new display language.

click sign out to apply new display language

Step 7: After signing in to your account again, you can see the keyboard language has already changed to the new language you add, or you can see the Windows display language has changed to the new from Settings on Windows 11.

successfully change the display language on Windows 11

Option 2: How to Change the Administrative Language on Windows 11

In addition to changing the display language on Windows 11, we walk you through the steps to learn how to change the administrative language on Windows 11. Follow us to do it with the steps below.

Step 1: In the left pane from Settings, click Time & language. Then scroll to Administrative language settings and click on it.

click Administrative language settings

Step 2: Click Change system locale... in the Administrative screen.

click Change system locale...

Step 3: In the pop-up Region Settings box,select which language to use in the Current system locale and then click OK.

select the current system locale

Step 4: Then a prompt will pop-up,click Later if you don't want to reboot yet.

click later if you don't want to reboot yet

Step 5: Click on the Copy settings button in the screen.

click Copy settings

Step 6: Under Copy your current settings to check Welcome screen and system account and New user account. Furthermore, Click OK to start copying.

check Welcome screen and system accounts and New user accounts

Step 7: Last, a pop-up message will display prompting you to restart now. Click on it to complete the steps to change the administrative language on Windows 11.

click Restart now to start changing the administrative language on Windows 11

Option 3: How to Change the Keyboard Language

If you add many languages to your Windows 11, do you want to know how to change the system language most easily and quickly without going to Settings? Here, we offer you the simplest way how quickly change the keyboard language on Windows 11.

As you can see below, only you need to do is tap the language icon shown on your desktop bottom, then select the language you want to use first to complete.

quickly change the keyboard language on Windows 11

That's what the guide is all about how to change the language on Windows 11 and this is only for Windows 11 users. You can check our other article if you also want to know how to change the default language on Windows 10.