What is the best way to choose a language?

Question

When it comes to choosing a language, there are several approaches:

• all languages ​​in english
• all languages ​​in your native language - this can lead to a difficult situation when you want to switch to your language, but you don’t know what
• each language in its own language
• lang in the current language (lang in your native language) is the most complete, but difficult to implement, and in addition to the translation effort, you need to make sure that you have enough space to display all the lines, and this is not always possible.

I think I prefer # 3 because it is easier to implement than # 4, and the only drawback is that you may need to know the name of the target language in your native language.

Which one do you use and what sorting do you use for this list?

language selection dialog http://blog.i18n.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/language_selection_dual.png

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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Answer 4

I would prefer # 1, but you must specify the flag of each country (as an image). Something visual is always easier to recognize than text (especially if a person does not speak English).