- \item[{\small LANG and LANGUAGE}] Cinelerra can be localized to display menus and messages in many languages. Language settings are normally read from your linux O/S language settings. To run on a language different than the one selected on your system just change the \texttt{LANG} and \texttt{LANGUAGE} environment variables. For example, open a shell and type: \texttt{export LANG=es\_ES} or
- \texttt{LANGUAGE=es\_ES}, then run Cin from the same shell and you will have translations in Spanish.
+ \item[{\small LANG}] Cinelerra can be localized to display menus and messages in many languages.
+Currently there are 16 languages in addition to English, of varying quality. A little more information on
+these is in the \nameref{cha:translations} chapter.
+Language settings are normally read from your Linux O/S language settings. To run on a language different
+than the one selected on your system just change the \texttt{LANG} environment variable before starting
+up Cinelerra like this:
+
+\hspace{2em} \texttt{export} LANG=2 letter language code\_2 letter country code.UTF-8
+
+For example, from a window type:
+
+\hspace{2em} \texttt{export LANG=es\_ES.UTF-8}
+
+then startup Cinelerra and you will have translations in Spanish. If you started Cinelerra from that same
+window using the \{cinelerra\_path\}/bin/cin you will see a message in that window something similar to:
+
+\hspace{2em} lang changed from 'en\_US.UTF-8' to 'es\_ES-UTF-8'
+
+Depending on your Operating System and Desktop application, there may be other ways to accomplish a
+language change. For example, on Fedora with the Gnome desktop, the simplest method of switching your
+language to German and immediately starting Cinelerra is to use:
+
+\hspace{2em} \texttt{LANGUAGE=de} \{cinelerra\_path\}/bin/cin
+