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# Exercise 9.1: Adding a Language to an Agent

* Open an agent and navigate to the **Agent-> Configuration -> Language**:
* Click on the Add language button in the Language page which then displays a pop-up menu as shown here:

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* In the search text field type: Spanish. Next, select the menu item *Spanish (es-US)* to select the US dialect of the Spanish language.
* Save the agent. Open the agent chat window and type the following: #switch\_langage es-US. You can now interact with the agent in the Spanish language.
* Use Google Translate to formulate Spanish questions from English like the following example (Using the My Assistant agent): *Order pizza* => *Ordenar pizza*