How to Change Roku Language from Spanish to English

Change to Other Languages on Your Roku

If Your Roku is Stuck In Spanish or Another Language Here's How to Fix It

If you bought a new Roku and it comes up in Spanish, German, or some other language, it may leave you wondering what to do next. But the fix is really pretty easy once we show you several tricks that will fix it.

It can be extremely frustrating to bring home a new Roku, turn it on and find the language is in Spanish, German, French or another language. We'll show you what you need to do to change the language to English or any language of your choice.

Which Languages Will Roku Support?

Roku supports many languages. They can easily change these from the home screen in the settings menu. If you are not bi-lingual, it can make it all the harder to do so. Because the Roku menus are written in a foreign language which can be very confusing if you don't understand it or know what actions to do next.

Individual Roku Apps or Channels Can Support These Languages:

Abkhaz
Afrikaans
Albanian
Alur
Aymara
Azerbaijani
Bashkir
Basque
Bassa (Cameroon)
Batak (Karo)
Batak (Toba)
Bileez Kriol
Biak
Bicol
Bislama
Boulou
Bulgarian
Catalan
Cebuano
Chichewa
Chitonga
Chitonga (Malawi)
Chitumbuka
Chokwe
Chol
Chuvash
Cibemba
Cinamwanga
Cinyanja
Croatian
Czech
Damara
Dangme
Danish
Douala
Drehu
Dutch
Efik
English
Estonian
Ewe
Ewondo
Fang
Fijian
Finnish
French
Galician
Garifuna
German
Greek
Guarani
Gun
Haitian Creole
Hausa
Herero
Hiligaynon
Hungarian
Hunsrik
Iban
Ibanag
Ibinda
íslenska
Igbo
Iloko
Indonesia
Isoko
Italian
Javanese
Kabuverdianu
Kabyle
Kazakh
Kekchi
Kikamba
Kikaonde
Kikongo
Kikuyu
Kiluba
Kimbundu
Kimbundu
Kirghiz
Kiribati
Kirundi
Kisi
Kisonge
Krio
Kurdish Kurmanji (Caucasus)
Kurdish Kurmanji (Cyrillic)
Kwangali
Kwanyama
Latvian
Lingala
Lithuanian
Low German (Plautdietsch)
Luganda
Luo
Luvale
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Maltese
Mam
Mapudungun
Maya
Mazatec (Huautla)
Medumba
Mongolian
Ndebele
Ndonga
Ngabere
Ngangela
Ngiemboon
Nias
Norwegian
Nsenga (Zambia)
Nyaneka
Ossetian
Otetela
Otomi (Mezquital Valley)
Pangasinan
Papiamento (Aruba)
Papiamento (Curaçao)
Pidgin (Cameroon)
Pidgin (West Africa)
Polish
Pomeranian
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Romanian
Saramaccan
Sepedi
Sepulana
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Serbian (Roman)
Sesotho (Lesotho)
Sesotho (South Africa)
Setswana
Shona
Silozi
Slovak
Slovenian
Sranantongo
Sunda
Swahili
Swati
Swedish
Tagalog
Tahitian
Tajiki
Talian
Tandroy
Tankarana
Tarascan
Tatar
Tiv
Tlapanec
Totonac
Tshiluba
Tsonga
Turkish
Turkmen
Tuvaluan
Twi
Tzeltal
Tzotzil
Uighur (Cyrillic)
Ukrainian
Umbundu
Urhobo
Uruund
Uzbek
Valencian
Venda
Vezo
Vietnamese
Wallisian
Welsh
Xhosa
Yemba
Yoruba
Zulu

Factory Reset Your Roku If Another Language Comes Up In the Initial Roku Setup

When starting a Roku for the first time and the language is something other than English, you need to do a factory reset. This is done by holding a small paper clip inserted in the reset hole on your Roku, or if it is a Streaming Stick holding down the button.

You need to make sure your Roku is plugged in and started up then press the reset button for at least 20 seconds. The Roku will then reboot and start up again. Once it boots, it should have defaulted to English.

Change the Language From The Home Screen

If the preferred language is not set when accessing menus from the Roku Home screen, we can easily set this in settings.

To change to another language on your Roku, go to the Home Screen, then Settings/System/Language. From there, you can choose the language you would like displayed when navigating the menus on your Roku.

If you can't understand the language, then the best thing to do is to use Google Translate. It will translate words in Spanish, French, German and others to English. Simply type in the word on one side of the screen set to the language you want to translate from. Set the other side to English. This will then show you how to access the language settings on your Roku.

If Your Roku Is Set to Spanish Here's How to Access The Roku Language Settings Screen

Configuración-> Sistema-> Idioma

From there you can choose another language to display.

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