How Do You Change the Language Tinder Shows?

On a phone, you cannot change Tinder's language inside the app, because Tinder shows whatever language your device settings give it. On Android you change it under System, then Languages, then App Languages, and on an iPhone under Settings, then Apps, then Tinder. On Tinder.com there is a Language menu you can change after you sign in.

The language setting is in your phone's own Settings app, not inside Tinder.

1. Open the Settings app.
2. Tap Apps.
3. Find and tap Tinder.
4. Set the language you want Tinder to use.

Open Tinder again and the app should appear in the language you picked.

Android keeps the same choice under its language settings.

1. Open your phone's Settings.
2. Go to System, then Languages.
3. Tap App Languages.
4. Choose Tinder and pick the language you want.

If your phone names a menu slightly differently, look for the same stops: System, Languages, App Languages.

The web version is the one place with its own language menu.

1. Sign in on Tinder.com.
2. Click the Profile icon.
3. Scroll down to Language.
4. Select your preferred language.

Tinder is available in a long list of countries and languages. The setting only decides which language the app uses for its own screens: the buttons, the menus and the labels.

It does not choose the language of anything you write. What you put on your profile and what you say in your messages are still up to you. That matters more than the menus. The menus are for you. What women read is the words you chose.

Men usually ask this question for one of two reasons. Either they have moved to a new country or are there on a long trip, or the women they want to meet speak a different first language from them.

Either way, the menus are the smallest part of it. The useful question is what language to write in.

If most of the women around you speak the local language, a line or two in that language on your profile shows effort and gives her an easy way to start talking. You do not need to be fluent. Something short and true, like where you are from and what brought you there, is plenty. If your grasp of the language is shaky, keep it simple rather than pasting in a long paragraph you cannot back up on a date.

a dating coach makes a related point about profiles in general. Every photo and every line should say something specific about you. For a man abroad, that can include the fact that you are abroad. It is an easy, natural thing for her to ask about.

If you are not sure which language works better, do what coach recommends for everything online: test it. Run your written details in one language for a while, then the other, and compare how many women like you back and start talking. His rule is to keep what works, drop what does not, and let your own results settle the argument.

A second language raises the stakes on a rule a dating coach applies to every conversation: keep it short. A wall of text from you, with nothing from her in between, looks needy and try hard in any language. In a language she has to work at, it is also a chore to answer.

He adds two more rules that help here. Put one idea, at most two, in each message, so she always knows what she is answering. And keep the tone informal and friendly. A stiff, formal message looks like you have an agenda, and translated phrasing tends to come out stiff unless you watch for it.

So write the way you would talk to a friend who speaks your language as a second one. Short sentences. Common words. One question at a time. If she switches to your language, follow her lead. If you both enjoy the back and forth of mixing the two, that can become part of the fun between you.

Whatever language the conversation happens in, the aim is the same: move it toward meeting. My advice is to keep things moving gently toward plans while the conversation is going well, and to not drift backward into small talk that goes nowhere.

A language gap is often easier in person than on a screen. Tone, a smile and pointing at a menu do a lot of work that text cannot. So once the conversation is warm, suggest something simple and specific: a drink at a place you both know, at a time that works. The app's language setting got you comfortable in the app. The date is where the real conversation starts.