Hi this is Russell Stannard from Teachertrainingvideos.com this is going
to be a super super quick video it's going to show you how to change the language settings in google
but not only that I want to show you what the impact of that is because it actually has quite
a big impact on a lot of things so for example all the interfaces will change so too will the
way that google searches for you so too will the videos that are recommended to you on YouTube
so I'm going to take you through this super quick video really hope you like it if you do please
like it please share it with other teachers and students and of course please comment on the video
let's get started so I'm already logged in to my Gmail account I'm already logged into google
I click here and I click on manage your google account click on manage your google account
and the one you want to come to is privacy and personalization click here and then where you
want to come is to scroll down and come down to your language preferences now I'm going to show
you this because it's really interesting what happens immediately so I'm going to click here
and I'm going to edit my current choice and I'm going to change it to Spanish so
I'm going to put it you always search in your in the actual language name so
in Spanish it's Espanola so I choose Espanola and then I do need to choose the country
that I'm associating with that as well so I'm going to say Espana and now if I click select
you'll notice suddenly everything updates and now all of the information on the screen
is actually in Spanish so you can make that change anytime you want and that therefore means that if
you want to be working in a different language now that will influence other things that happen
on google as well let me just give you one example now what a lot of people don't realize
is that this actually has an impact on lots of other things for example I've just come back to
google now notice that everything is in Spanish and what I'm going to do is I'm actually going
to do a google search okay and I'm going to search for something generic in other words I'm going to
put the word in euro 2021 which is related to the european football competition that's taking place
now even though that word could be interpreted in english or in spanish for example the returns
that are sent to me for that search now are all in spanish because i have put spanish as my language
and this therefore is really important to understand including look at this all of the
returns from youtube etc are all impacted by you making that change to the language that you want
to work with so this could be great for language learners if you want to get used to working in a
particular language then perhaps for example in my case i'm learning polish it would be a good idea
to change the language to polish and therefore all of the language on google will be in polish
now as a final thing I've just jumped over to YouTube and you'll notice actually that it's still
sharing some content in English and yet it's also now sharing some content in Spanish now
the reason for that is simply this remember google has your search history so if you were previously
searching in English and you changed to Spanish in your YouTube it's still going to recommend
the popular videos that you've been watching in English previously will still recommend them to
you the only way to completely switch to spanish now would be to delete the history if you deleted
the history then it would start from scratch it would only know what language you want to work
in and it would recommend everything in spanish but you will notice that as soon as you change
over to another language you do begin to get some recommendations in that new language and notice
here at the top for example that it's trying to encourage me to go to various sections and
those are in Spanish so it will have an impact on YouTube but not completely simply because
the videos that are recommended to you on YouTube will depend on your previous viewing history
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