What Changes?
Whatever your reason for doing it, you can change the language of your entire system in a few minutes. This will change every applications text to the language of your choice, as well as the folders in your home directory. The only thing that doesn't change is the terminal commands. For example, apt-get install is still apt-get install even if your language is French.
How Do I Do It?
Start by opening up System Settings and clicking on Language Support. This will bring up the main settings for everything related to languages in Ubuntu.
You will be asked to install language support. Click install and wait a minute or two for language support to download and install the needed components.
The Language Support settings will now pop up, this is the language control center. Up top is a list of system languages sorted by priority. Whatever language at the top is what the system displays everything in. Click Install / Remove Languages... to install your language of choice.
Here is where you select your languages, select all the languages you want to install with the checkboxes then click Apply Changes. These languages will be put into the list in the main window.
Now simply drag the language that you would like to use as your main language to the top of the list. In this example I used German (Deutsch). Now click Apply System-Wide, close the window and log out and back in. You will see all of the text in Ubuntu in your language.
*If you ever wish to revert to English, simply drag English to the top of the list and log out and back in.
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