Process Human Languages on Your Mac OS X

Get started reading and writing in any language on your Mac OS X in just a couple of minutes. That’s literally all it takes to set up system menus. Set your dialog boxes and prompts to display messages in your choice of 18 languages. Start reading and writing in any human language supported by your Mac OS X on your next log in to your computer. What makes the Mac version of languages more exciting than PC is that you can run multiple languages at the same time on a Mac OS X. Additional languages can be added to your Macintosh via third-party software. The foreign languages that come with your purchase of a Mac running the OS X operating system include: Chinese (traditional and simplified), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.

Go to System Preferences on your Mac OS X. From here, simply locate the Languages menu. Set the language of your preference to the top of the list of languages. The next time you log in, you will see a different language on your system. You can set up additional user accounts on your Mac to use with fast-user-switching. This is a feature that allows you to move to different languages on your computer by rotating the screen. This feature will use up a lot of memory quickly. To activate fast-user-switching on your Mac, click on User Preferences. Click the Accounts icon. Click on Login Options. Click the checkbox next to Fast-User-Switching. Click on the Menu bar that displays the user name. Select the user name that you want to use. To set up multiple languages, create more user accounts, and then move the target language to the top of the languages list. Click on the Menu bar displaying the user name, and then click on the next user to set up that account’s language. You can now rotate the entire screen on your Macintosh to view different languages in each account. This is especially useful if your job requires you to work with two or more languages.