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How do I switch my MySpace profile language from Spanish to English?

Help! I accidentally pressed the Latino MySpace button and changed my MySpace to Spanish! Now I can't change it back to English. Can you please help me change it back to English mode? Gracias!

Dave's Answer:

I have a practice of not making fun of people who send in questions, but tu vida en línea es muy difícil, si? :-)

Anyway, it's not obvious how to switch, but it turns out that MySpace supports quite a few different languages, though it's buried in the timezone setting, of all things. Let's do this in English first, then we'll do it again in Español tambien.

In English, if you're in classic view on MySpace, click on ""Account Settings", then you'll see this:

You can see here this is where you tweak your email account settings, but what we want to examine is the "Preferred Site and Language". You'll notice it is "U.S.A." Want to have it in Spanish? Choose "U.S.A. (Spanish)". German? Try "Germany". Italian? "Italy", and so on. Pick which you'd prefer and click on "Save Changes".

Now, in Spanish, assuming you're still in "classic" view, you'll want to look closely at the different options adjacent to your photo on the left:

You want to click on "mi cuenta" (which translates literally to "my mind", oddly enough), which takes you here:

The field you want to change is labelled "Idioma y sitio preferidos" (language and site preferences). The default for Spanish is "EEUU (Español)" where "EEUU" is the United States (literally Los Estados Unidos). Change this to just plain "EEUU" and click on the button labelled "Guardar cambios" and you should be back to English after you next click on anything. Try clicking on "Inicio" in the top left: it'll take you back to your Home view on MySpace.

If you aren't in Classic view but are instead using one of the fancy skins that MySpace offers, you'll have a control panel like this:

In this case click on "Configuración" and you'll be able to pick up the steps from there!

Don't forget, I have lots and lots of MySpace help and, I suppose, MySpace Ayuda too :-)

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Comments

mi cuenta means my account not my mind

Posted by: dan at January 29, 2008 8:00 AM

Wow!

People like YOU are the reason I decided to start my own company yesterday!

Hell Yes!

Picture finally having your "own my company" moment of zen- when your myspace switches to ESPANOL!

If you heard:
"MOTHER$&#*$@()&#@!"
Followed by a few gun shots last night...it wasme!

But if you heard "AWW HELL YEAH!" in the last few seconds....that was me TOO! (after finding this insanely cool website of yours)

WELCOME TO MY FAVORITES.

WHOEVER'S IDEA THIS SITE WAS- YOU ARE A GENIUS!!!!!!

CHEERS!
DAN FUNKHOUSER
PRESIDENT
FUNKHOUSER UNITED

Posted by: DAN FUNKHOUSER at February 3, 2008 12:28 PM

i can you change my myspace back to english

Posted by: shameka at March 1, 2008 3:41 PM

please help me to convert my myspace back to english, i accidently hit the wrong buttons and messed up, Can you fix my problem for me and i want to thank you in advance for creating this website?

Posted by: mary at March 2, 2008 6:37 PM

Thanks soo much man!!!

Posted by: Chandler at March 13, 2008 6:55 PM

Thank you for this web site..i accidentally hit latino and changed everything to spanish. you saved my life because if everyone got home to that they would have killed me!!! lol Step by step i got everything back as it should be..you are wonderful!!!

Posted by: Chris at March 20, 2008 10:07 AM

i cant get myspace out of german language help

Posted by: rudy at March 24, 2008 1:13 PM

help me change my myspace back to inglish because i press the wronge buttons can u fix my page agian thanyou...............

Posted by: mayra at March 31, 2008 7:18 PM

Just wanted to let you know that I googled "My myspace is in spanish. How do I fix it!" and this came up...You helped a lot! Thank you!

Nikki

Posted by: Nikki at April 5, 2008 11:17 AM

Hi,I've tried changing my myspace from latino to english by going into account settings and selecting 'EEUU'. But when i click save "Guardar cambios" its going back to "EEUU Espanol" can anyone PLEASE help me..

Posted by: Raj at April 10, 2008 7:21 AM

thank you very much

Posted by: qrm at April 13, 2008 5:41 AM

Posted by: jeannie at April 15, 2008 2:25 PM

i the coolest nigga at meisler i from third ward

Posted by: roderick at April 15, 2008 3:04 PM

I also change my language back to EEUU,but after I clicked the button it redirects me to another page and says I have to change it in a different place...How an that be?Please help me,this is driving me MAD!!!
Thanx for the help

Posted by: Daniel at April 22, 2008 4:18 PM

This doesnt work... When you select the EEUU, and click on save, it simply go back to spanish..
What's the story?

Posted by: YouOne at April 25, 2008 1:58 AM

it is not in spanish it is in some other language. i want it back in english

Posted by: chuck english at April 27, 2008 6:31 AM

Thanks Dave Taylor, whoever you are! No more espanol!

Posted by: Jaime at April 28, 2008 1:36 AM

thanks so much!!!

Posted by: mulder8scully5 at May 1, 2008 8:40 PM

i appreciate your help...but!!it not work..when i click EEUU..and save..it still EEUU(espanol)

please...myspace is my home...

Posted by: aiman from malaysia at May 3, 2008 11:20 PM

Hi there,
I haven't been on-line on MySpace for 1 week now and when I went to check my MySpace stuff, I am surprised to find that my site has been switched to Spanish instead of the usual English which I always see.. Can u help me switch my MySpace back into English? It's urgent.. Thanks again.. Please get back to me soon..

Posted by: Sherlyn Goh at May 10, 2008 8:22 PM

Hi there,
I'm Sherlyn, a MySpace user from Singapore and I experience some problems with my MySpace site which has been changed into Spanish instead of English.. I am not so fluent in Spanish and I can't change it back into English now.. Please help me to get MySpace back into English.. Many thanks..

Posted by: Sherlyn Goh at May 10, 2008 8:34 PM

I'm in Thailand and have tried for the past two days to sign up to myspace, and get spanish only. On all the search engines. Google, yahoo ... Wa's going on? Would've thought something so big as myspace could have sorted themselves out by now!

Posted by: tamsin at May 12, 2008 9:36 PM

I have a lot to say, but ...

I have a lot to say, and questions of my own for that matter, but most of all I'd like to say thank you for all your efforts on this Web site by buying you a chai!

I do have a comment, now that you mention it!