How to get websites to open to a specific language (when available)?

Hi,
This is probably not Win 11-specific but there are so many knowledgeable people here that I thought I'd try my luck....

This has been bugging me for years, and probably thousands of other Belgian users as well.
Belgium is a trilingual country (Dutch/French/German) although the Germans are a very small minority so I'd say that the vast majority of Belgian website cater to the French, Dutch and International audience by having their websites in Dutch, French & sometimes English.

The annoyance is that virtually ALL Belgian websites (so with a .be at the end) will open in Dutch by default!
I don't know much about internet tech but my understanding was that browsers and websites communicate with each other and exchange information when connecting and I would have hoped/thought that among the shared info were some language settings. But despite having tinkered with virtually every possible OS and browser language settings, it still, years later...ALWAYS opens first in Dutch!

Is there anyway to change that??

As far as I can tell the country where the Domain is registered determines the language and author of a Domain uses that language. My Domain is in the USA and has .com for an extension. Maybe a Domain owner can have more than one registration [each registration costs] to have particular languages available. An example could be a Domain with extension of .be and also have a Domain with extension of .de or maybe another country like .za with pages of appropriate languages.

I don’t know of a permenet fix. But if you add a link to Google Translate on your bookmarks toolbar:

Go to Google Translate, select Websites, paste your link, ask it to detect language, select language to translate to.
You usually need to click the arrow twice. I believe the first click, Google checks out the site, the second click will open it

Link: Google Translate

If you want to use Google Chrome, this may be helpful:

Berton said:

...An example could be a Domain with extension of .be and also have a Domain with extension of .de or maybe another country like .za with pages of appropriate languages.

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No, thy way it works here and in other multilingual countries (like Switzerland which also has 3 languages) is that you just have the country extension, so .be for Belgium, and then once you click your language choice, the address will change accordingly but with the same .be extension. So e.g. www.dell.be/fr, www.dell.be/nl, www.dell.be/de.


As far as translating, that's really not necessary and not ideal since the webpage already exists in the language I want, but it's just annoying that I systematically have to make that choice EVERY single time I visit a Belgian site!
Anyway, it looks like nobody has a solution so I just have to learn to live with it I guess.
Thx just the same for trying to help!