Feature / Question: Allow subscribers to change their preferred language

[socenpauriba]

Hi @pierre-b 👋

I have a question / feature request regarding contact language preferences.

Use case

I want to send localized emails based on the contact language, for example:

• If the contact language is en, they receive the English version
• If the contact language is ca or es, they receive the corresponding version

This can already be handled with segmentation (filter by language), which is great.

What’s missing

I’d love a way for the subscriber to change their preferred language themselves, directly from an email.

For example, the email could include links like:

• “View emails in English”
• “Ver correos en Español”
• “Rebre en Català”

Clicking one of those would update the contact field (example: language = en) so future emails are sent in that language.

Something like a template variable / action link, for example:
{{ update_language_link('en') }}

Question

Is there any existing way to do this today (without using public list subscriptions)?

Why I think this is different from public lists

I know this could be approximated with public lists (one list per language), but in my view it’s a different concept:

• Lists = subscription topics
• Language = profile preference / localization

Having language as a self-service preference would make multilingual newsletters much easier to manage.

Thanks! 🙌

[pierre-b]

Hi @socenpauriba , thanks for the request, at the moment the only way is to send an API request.

But I think we can improve the notification center to update the user language from there. The notification center already has a language switcher.

How would you see this feature?

[socenpauriba]

Yeah, that would be cool. The only problem I see is that now notification center has limited langs. So for example in my case i want users to switch between Catalan or Spanish, for example. If we solve that, also related to this feature.