ITunes now in Chinese - cannot switch to English

Everything was working fine with iTunes and my iPhone, and then I went to a buddy of mines house who was checking out his myspace page or god knows what -
When I came home and sync my iPHONE, iTunes comes up and it's in Chinese charactaer font.
Because I do not speak the language, or read or write for that matter in Chinese, I cannot fix this issue.
I have tried customer support and they said "re-install itunes" which I did 3 times - with no joy.
I'm stuck now with worrying that I'm going to to lose my 80 dollars worth of itunes store purchased music and podcasts and audio books and have no way of working with my iPhone or iTunes.
Anyone know or have experienced this problem or know how to help me get it back to Engish? the song, audio books and podcasts are in english but the rest of it is in Chinese symbol.
I'm really upset and don't know what happened or how to fix this - -
thank you
daniel

thank you SO much!
The only problem I had was that I had to guess which langage was "ENGLISH" from the list of languages. Fortunately, I just counted what position the ENGLISH (USA) selection was from the list, and clicked on it- closed my iTunes program, and then reloaded the program.
Problem solved - and I might add, and very very hearty THANK YOU my friend!!
daniel

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