# Changing the language of my discourse instance after initial install

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**Created:** [July 6, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-language-of-my-discourse-instance-after-initial-install/46901 "2016-07-06T14:34:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-language-of-my-discourse-instance-after-initial-install/46901/1 "2016-07-06T14:34:50Z")

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I’m on a pro hosted instance and it was initially installed in English. Although the interface language setting works great (and the default is to French), the text content & email templates are in English. As far as I know these are not translated depending on the user lang. So I’d like to switch them to French.

- Is there a better way than CTRL-C from the [i18n source](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/master/config/locales) to my discourse admin ?
- If no, I cannot to find `system_messages.usage_tips.text_body_template` in French anywhere, does it mean it does not exist ?

Thanks for your help !

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