> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://captivatehelp.newbluelive.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://captivatehelp.newbluelive.com/reference/change-the-interface-language.md).

# Change the interface language

Captivate runs its interface in any of thirteen languages. The setting is per user on this computer — it doesn’t travel with a project, and it doesn’t change anything about the graphics you build or the text they display.

## Choose a language

1. Choose **Settings** > **Language**.
2. Pick a language from the list. The current one is ticked.
3. Captivate confirms: *"Please restart the application for language settings to take effect."*
4. Close Captivate and open it again. The interface comes back in the language you chose.

The available languages are **English**, **Arabic**, **Chinese**, **French**, **German**, **Hindi**, **Indonesian**, **Italian**, **Japanese**, **Korean**, **Spanish**, **Portuguese**, and **Russian**.

{% hint style="info" %}
The restart is required — the menus, panels, and dialogs are built when Captivate starts, so the change appears only in a fresh session.
{% endhint %}

## What the setting does and doesn’t change

The language applies to Captivate’s own interface: menus, panels, dialogs, and messages.

It does not affect:

* **The text in your graphics.** What a title displays comes from its design and its data, in whatever language you authored or received it. Changing the interface language doesn’t translate a graphic.
* **Data arriving from a Data Controller.** Scores, names, and other incoming values pass through as sent.
* **Your projects.** A project built in one language opens identically in another.

**💡 TIP**\
If you share a computer with operators who prefer different languages, each user account on the machine keeps its own choice.

## Related

* [The playout interface](/get-started/chapter-index-2/the-playout-interface.md) — a tour of the panels the language setting renames.
* [Customize Captivate’s layout](/get-started/chapter-index-2/customize-your-layout.md)


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