I had mistakenly changed the language from English to something else now I CAN’T GET BACK TO FACEBOOK CAN YOU HELP ME GET BACK ON FACEBOOK?!
You shouldn’t have any problem logging in to your Facebook account, regardless of what language has ended up set as your preference: even if you’re working in a different character set or system language, it shouldn’t adversely affect your account name or password. If that’s happening, then I’d email Facebook support and see if you can sort it out.
Assuming that’s not the case, it’s tricky but doable for you to reset your default Facebook system language. I’ll show you how to reset it from Spanish back to English, but the key idea is that you need to know where things are located on the screen rather than worry about the words. That way, if you’re in a language that you totally don’t understand, you’ll still be able to succeed.
To make double sure we’re successful, let’s map out the journey from being logged in on Facebook to being able to see the language settings in English first.
From your home screen, you want to click on “Account” on the top right:
Count things out: the entry we want is the third one down. In English it’s “Account Settings”:
Now there are a set of language options along the top. We want “Language”, which is the fifth tab, as you can see. Click on it and you’ll see a menu that displays your current language. Here, of course, it’s “English (US)”:
To change it to something else, simply click on the menu and pick the language you’d prefer…
I’ll choose “Spanish” and go back to the home screen to see what Facebook looks like en español. Looks, uh, like it’s in Spanish. 🙂
Now, to reset it without knowing the words, we can simply count entry slots. On the home page we still want to pull up the menu on the top right and choose the third entry. In this case, however, it’s the “Cuenta” menu and the setting we want is “Configuración de la cuenta”:
Count along the tabs to find the fifth entry, here labeled “Idioma”:
and we’re back at that pop-up menu of language choices:
Simply pick “English (US)” again (or whatever language you’d prefer) and the page instantly changes into that language and resets everything on your account:
Es muy bien! Now, just for fun, here’s what the account menu looks like in Croatian (Hrvatski), Japanese and Russian:
Yeah, I switched it back to English when I was done with those screen captures. 🙂
I did and it did not come back to MY ENGLISH. WHY ???
I thank you so much . I miss not being able to go on and not seeing my family`s pictures .
I cant get my page back to English the sample shown to rectify the problem does not look like my page at all. please help
i have the same problem my problem is a game in facebook signin
I cant get my page back to English the sample shown to rectify the problem does not look like my page at all. please help
Dave, I do not get the screen you show on your example. Is that the same as my FB page? I am thinking it’s not. In which case, how do I get to it?
I have no idea what language is coming up on my page, or why. I never changed it. I can’t even guess what most of the words could be. I can’t even figure out how to log out. I never do, I just go to FB and I am already logged in. I am lost! What do you suggest?
Thanks.
Lisa
my name is fathimamohammad, please get back my facebook account as early as possible, if ur answers is not correct method to asked anyone, how can identify that pictures is my friends facebook, in the face book lot of friends how can i identify, sir please re back my facebook account now, this is very important news sir, if u not re back my face book i can loss all my face book friends. sir please re back my account now. fathimamohammad786@gmail.com. if u not re back my account, i will go to court of law against your face book team.
if you are interested you can change it to pirate. That is always fun on talk like a pirate day…coming in september…you can never start preparing too early for it 😀
You’re exactly right, Nick. Fixed it!
I’m sure that you have already received several emails pointing out that in the example you give for your account in three languages, the middle one is Japanese *not* Korean.
my facebook turned into German(I think) only know is not in English and cannot read friends comments.
Dave, after reading the article. I came up with another idea. When messed up with an unknown language.
1. use Lingoes to detect the language first.
2. then translate the page with detected language on Google.
3. figure out the where to click then.
How does this sound?
That was interesting and amusing! Thanks.