However, I have translation on my WordPress.com blogs. There are two workarounds and you will find them here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/02/14/translation-widget-for-wordpress-com-blogs/
Note: You can copy and paste the code on my Translations page and then replace every occurrence of my blog's URL in the code with your own blog's URL.

You can only set a single interface language for the blog here > Settings > General
If you are bilingual or multilingual and want to publish your free hosted WordPress.com in two or more languages but do not want to rely on machine translation that can be done see here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/02/25/wordpress-com-multilingual-blogs/

What you did was to create Pages titled by each language. You cannot put posts on Pages the way you wish it to work.

Here are other options.

If you are translating the same post, put one language at the top and the translation at the bottom of the same post. Many people learning languages love this as they can read in the language they are learning and glance at the other language to make sure they have it right.

If you are producing separate content in the two languages, create a category for English and another for French and other categories reflective of the topics you are talking about along with tags in both languages to increase navigation opportunities. Use the Custom Menu feature to place the English and French categories where you wish them (I would not use a submenu as these are key navigation points right? Just add them directly to the menu), and users can click which category of posts to read. That is probably the best method.

Thanks and good luck with your travels.

The blog is http://teacuptravelers.wordpress.com/

There is no FTP access to our free hosted WordPress.com blogs and we cannot install plugins. We cannot use Microsoft or Google translation widgets or any other JavaScript widgets, as the code is stripped out to preserve security on this multiuser blogging platform. http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#javascript

However, I have translation on my WordPress.com blogs. There are two workarounds and you will find them here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/02/14/translation-widget-for-wordpress-com-blogs/
Note: You can copy and paste the code on my Translations page and then replace every occurrence of my blog's URL in the code with your own blog's URL.

see also: http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/02/25/wordpress-com-multilingual-blogs/

myblog.wordpress.com/en/home
or
myblog.wordpress.com/fr/accueil

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The site is in english (set as original language) and italian. My aim is to get an index splash page with two buttons, "english" and "italian", by clicking on which the user can choose the required language, and then navigate the whole site with the language set.

How can I achieve this?

thanks in advance

His posts then automatically sent these to all of our followers, some of whom complained about getting posts in Spanish.

Is there a way to allow people who prefer Spanish to get separate e-mails from those who prefer English?

Please add support for translating posts.

You can set up 2 blogs, one for each language and use a custom menu to link the two of them together.
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/

Or use categories to separate your posts between the 2 languages and use a custom menu so your readers can choose which set of posts they want to see.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/

Not sure if this will help but personally I have somewhat started a bilingual blog for both English and Chinese, even when I selected English as my primary language setting. I am able to translate and type most things into Chinese yet things like "search" or the months under the calendar will be English. Though I just presume that most people would understand them as they are really basic English vocabs ;)

Here's what my blog looks like if you are curious:
http://ahoardofgoodwill.wordpress.com/

Hope this would give you some ideas if you only just one blog instead of two! Cheers~

The only other translation options we have are not great. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/02/14/translation-widget-for-wordpress-com-blogs/
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/translation/

It is currently possible to set the main language of the blog in the page "Settings" -> "General". If I choose "Français", I obtain the following HTML code:
<html lang="fr">

Actually, I would like to set a secondary language so that the search engines "know" that most of my articles (currently more than 82%) have been translated in English, I would like to obtain the following HTML code:
<html lang="fr,en">

Creating 2 separate blogs would be a huge waste of time and several other users attempt to do something similar. It is already possible to use the markup "span" to indicate that a part of an article is in English but my whole blog is seen by search engines and Technorati as a non English blog containing some English words.

I have to point out that automatic translation may give approximative results. For example, Google Translate sometimes removes negations, it completely changes the meaning of the sentence, there are the same problems with hidden meaning and some idiomatic expressions. That's why I prefer translating my articles (even though English is not my mother tongue).

The addition of a secondary language as a new feature would not be that difficult to implement. It would have a very low impact on the source code of this content management system.

I don't ask the staff to allow bilingual blogs to appear in several sections in which blogs are sorted by languages in the main website WordPress.com because it would be confusing, English readers would see keywords in other languages, etc... I only suggest that such a secondary language would be mainly useful for search engines.