 configuring language detection and selection goal configure the methods used to decide which language will be used to display text on your site what is a language detection method  a language detection method is a way for your site to decide what language should be used to display text this decision is made by evaluating a series of detection methods for languages the first detection method that gets a result will determine which language is used if you have more than one language on your site you can configure the detection methods that are used and the order they are evaluated for both user interface text and content text configuration text always uses the interface text method and most sites use the same detection methods for all types of text what language detection methods are available  the available detection methods depend on what modules you have installed some of the most commonlyused language detection methods are url use the language from the url which can either be in a path prefix like examplecom fr pagepath for french fr language or in a domain like frexamplecom pagepath  user for logged in users use the language they have set in their profiles browser use the language preferences from the user s browser selected language use the language most recently selected from a language switcher block session use the language from a session parameter or a request parameter for example adding  language fr to the end of the url steps in the manage administrative menu navigate to configuration   region and language   languages  detection and selection check the boxes to enable the desired language detection methods and uncheck boxes for the methods you do not want to use drag the methods to change their order if desired click save settings  click configure on each enabled detection method and verify that its configuration is correct or update the configuration if not  