App Store language - A personal Plea to Apple

Like Millions of people around the world I live in a country where i don't speak the local language fluently. In fact where I live in Spain there are in the region of 1 million ex pats living.
I switched from PC to MAC because the OS has multilanguage support and I could switch my spanish bought iMAC to english rather than have to send off to the UK or US for a copy and do a re-install.
When it comes to the APP Store I cannot get it in any other language than Spanish. As a result I don't buy anything.
For this very reason I didn't get an iPhone but went for an android device where the app store is multilingual
For this very reason I didn't Buy an Ipad.
I've seen lots of threads on here where expats can't access the local store in their own language...
Why not adopt the policy that Amazon has with kindle where you can request to switch the location of your kindle store?
This policy is costing Apple money isn't it time it was changed??

I absolutely second that.
After the language change of local iTunes stores last year many users have tried and requested to be able to keep the English language. And obviously have been completely ignored.
The same goes for local Apple websites and their online store.
Both are still frequently poorly translated - for me in German (I am not in/from Germany, but the content prominently is...)it is also offensive to be informally addressed as Du and with my first name rather than my last or full name.
That is for a target group 13-19 with no language skills and no foreign descent.
Having the great possibility of that - best of all OS - multilingual MacOS and then being forced to use monolingual interweb-tools is embarrassing.
Regression to the mean is natural, regression to a lowest standard seems unnecessary for a company with the success history of Apple.

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My Apple User preferred language is English - selected.
I live in Spain.
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Anybody?
Appreciated.

You can only purchase apps form the App store in which you are currently locate. Since you are in Spain unless there is an option in the Store App you can't change it.

Why my app store language is Malay?

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My hp language is Chinese, but why my app store language is Malay???
How to change back to English?

Here is solution
Step 1: Go to Settings.
Step 2: Tab Store.
Step 3: Tab your Apple ID and then Sign Out.
Step 4: Now Sign In and choose Create New Apple ID (you won't complete this, don't worry).
Step 5: You'll be asked to choose your store (country/region), choose the country which has the language you want the AppStore to be in.
Step 6: Click Next and then Agree.
Step 7: Fill in the information until you're asked to insert your credit card info.
Step 8: When you reach the credit card info, click Cancel and exit the Create New Apple ID section.
Step 9: Go back to Settings and sign in with your actual Apple ID.
Step 10: Open the AppStore.

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Those instructional workshops are free to attend. This is copied from the information website at one of the Apple Stores in Pittsburgh, PA
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Maybe something in here will help, even though this is not exactly what you are experiencing.
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Fixed. I think I have discovered my problem. My Apple ID and email verification were NOT the same. Apparently it really matters that your verification email address is the same as your Apple ID (which itself is an email address).
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I have an iphone 4 and recently changed my apple id password. I went through the verification successfully. For some reason, I can't sign into the app store on my iphone using my apple id and password.

Apple doesn't monitor here. Best we can do is to push you to contact Apple directly.
This is from the iOS Dev Center forum...
http://devimages.apple.com/maintenance/
We apologize for the significant inconvenience that our downtime has caused and encourage you to reach out to ourhttps://developer.apple.com/contact/ if you need any assistance.
(Check under "Program Enrollment").
Note that your program membership should have been automatically renewed if it lapsed during the downtime period. If not, please be explicit about that in your support request.
--- DrErnie

HT2242 app store language change

My App Store language is supposed to be in English but instead it's German. How do I change it back to English?

http://www.dearsillyblog.com/2012/04/how-to-fully-change-appstore-language.html
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Under settings my phone has my apple id logged in, when I go to update on the app store it asks for a friends apple id, how do i fix this?

The app must have been purchased using your friends account. This means that the app belongs to your friend.
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