Topic: How to change the language in the eShop?

I couldn't find the answer online so I'm trying it as Nintendo customer services didn't reply to me yet.

I'm currently living in Belgium and changed my account from the UK to here. My Switch system is English but, for some unknown reason, my eShop is in Dutch.

Does anyone know how to change the language in the eShop?

I'd like to at least change it to French (the other official language here).
Thanks

@tourjeff As you found out, the eShop language is determined by the region that you have the Nintendo account signing into the eShop set to rather than your system language. Unfortunately unless I'm missing something, you don't really have any other options other than changing your region again, using a different profile/account with a different region to browse the eShop or just making do with Belgium.

Unfortunately, as BenAV stated, you cannot change the eShop's language as that is determined by the region, not the system language setting.

@BenAV @Silly_G

Thanks for your inputs, however, do you know how I can at least change the language to the other official language in the country?
I mean I'm sure French speakers here don't want their account in Dutch and vice versa.

@tourjeff There's language setting in the Nintendo account settings so I don't think so. They really should implement something like that rather than just doing it automatically based on region but I guess not enough people make a fuss about it for them to bother.

@tourjeff
Edit: If eshop won't display in your console's prefered language, that means that eshop region does not support your language. (in which case, eshop will show the region's default language)

I tested the North America eshop. I tried five languages. NA eshop can display in English & Spanish. It will not display French, German, Italian - when set to those three languages (in switch system settings), eshop defaulted to English language. I could test other languages, but it seems unlikely that others are supported for North American region.

I do know if you want to change the language you must have a NIN account and then change the location or world language in your preferences if you going to use it to download eShop on the Switch itself. That's the only way I know that it will work - just changing it on your Switch will not allow you to download from different location for eShop. But be sure to change the language back otherwise your settings will be that Region language only. So make two account for your language location and use one for DLC or eShop for that language location and then switch that NIN back to your default language that way you won't be getting news from that language location constantly.

example I got two Switch NIN accounts with different email using same email will not work for NIN accounts they will tell you if you try that.

1. NA with EN language with different email address
2. NA with EN language with different email address
change this to:
JPN with JPN language for DLC/eShop downloads - then change back to:
NA with EN language

This is how I do it if I buy JPN games with DLC to download.

@SwitchForce hi mate, I have the same setup as you have for an US and JP accounts. And the language changes when I login into one of these accounts but so is the currency.
My issue is that I have my account set in Belgium as my billing country. Here there are a few official languages (Flemish, French and - a small part - German).
My issues are that a) I cannot select a language that I want to have regardless the country I live in, and I mean only the language not the billing address.
And b) even though Belgium has many official languages, I cannot select the one of my preference. The eShop forces me to have Flemish and no option is available to change that to, say, French for instance.
Some suggested to change my system's language to French and, then, the eShop would also change... I haven't tried it but the issue with that is that my games would also be in French, meaning that I would have to keep changing the system language all the time.

@tourjeff I believe the only way is to go to your Nintendo account on a browser and change there your language to French

That's the only way to do it if you want to download eShop based on Language region on the Switch otherwise it will not work just by changing the language on the Switch. One has to be logged in on the Switch on that account because when you change online the Switch will require you re-logged for the language change to take effect. So you have to do both not just one.