The average user who fluently speaks two (or more) languages but isn't English native is subject to being force fed (often horrible) translations of apps, games, programs, etc. when we would much rather have them in English.



Not only that but many times (specially in games) you'd rather have access to original version because sometimes a lot of the impact of the dialogues is lost in translation (even if the translation is good). In websites and apps you may even be subjected to content on your native language as irrelevant as it may be...



The only sure-fire way to "fix" this is to set the default language of our operating systems to English but then we are unable to share our devices with other friends/family/colleagues/SOs who aren't fluent in English. Not to mention that a lot of people just prefer to have the OS in their native language.



So please... Make the app/game/program/website language optional. If the language can change by detecting the system language having an extra option to change it manually shouldn't be that hard... And it would spare a lot of people the torments of facing bad translations (I'm looking at you Google Play Store)!



By signing this petition you'll, hopefully, give a clear signal to OS developers that a language selection option (when more then one language is available) should be a standard requirement for app/program creators that wish to attain a quality certification for their products. The inclusion of this on quality standard guidelines would, hopefully, give every developer (small or big) a clear signal that forcing a user to use a language they don't want isn't acceptable. Much less auto-translations.