Xbox One - how to change language without having to change region?

pretty sure the language options are set based on the region of the account but I am not 100% sure on that

It seems it can't be done. MS locked the language to the region. I'm extremelly disappointed at it too.

I'm brazilian and live in Brazil, but I want to play the games in English. If I set my region to Brazil, it's mandatory to set the language to portuguese. It's stupid.

I guess MS has better programmers to design the system to be set to any language regardless the region you pick.

Change this messed up policy, MS, please.

Same here. I live in Austria but I prefer to have everything in English. It is an annoying restriction and it was better solved on Xbox 360.

I hope Microsoft will solve this problem in the next system update. It's very annoying that I can't change my language without changing the country.

The stupid thing MS over looked is, Places like Israel, Canada, Finland, Marco, and much more have officially two languages. how did Microsoft *** up with this one? can we ask for refunds on useless Games/consoles since we can't use them. if any one has an answer Please let me know

I am in Mexico and in order to buy games i have to change the region to mexico. i don't speak spanish i can deal with the menu but when i play games the language is also spanish meaning i have no understanding of the story line. completely unbelievable this has been over looked. it worked fine on the xbox 360 why did they change it?

It seems the account location and the console region/language are two separate things.

For the account, you really need to be in your own country due to licensing restrictions, taxes, etc.

For the console settings, this is the sad part. Microsoft has locked the available countries based on language. So I'm in Brazil but I speak English and I can only select Portuguese. Microsoft forces me to lie that I'm in the US to just simply configure my console in English.

This is ridiculous. I wish someone at Microsoft would provide some feedback as to when users will be able to select whatever language they want, independent of the country they live in.

I'm in Japan and have same issue. Really hope Microsoft can feedback us. At least set English as the region free system language.

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