How to install English language

Nick Liwewe that is Sony's way of stopping the sales of their equipment on the grey market. You probably have a camera that only has Thai, Hindi and a few select other language only. Those are the languages the camera is locked to. For some cameras hacks like this one work. For some other cameras you could use the Open Memory Teak posted on Github and see if it works for your camera https://github.com/ma1co/OpenMemories-Tw...

You could try and use an English user manual and utilize the pictures to access your cameras features. It would be cumbersome but at least you could use it.

Does anybody still use Rosetta Stone for language learning? I think I still have a copy of that....;-)

The a6100 is one of the Android/Linux cameras. As @oldturkey03 said, Sony regionalizes their cameras to discourage gray market importing (As does Canon and Nikon to a lesser degree, but don't get me started on how Nikon treats customers with gray market products) in more ways than this as well; for example, I have a gray market a6000 I bought in the UK with 2 batteries (1 NIB), an unused case worth ~$40-50 and a low click count a6000 for the same price as many of the USDM variants; it just took a little longer to receive because of US Customs. It's 90% the same, but one limitation is particularly troublesome if you use it for video... The camera is locked to 50hz interlaced video since the EU video spec is 50hz; I can use it for video, but I need a PAL-formatted SD card. If I take the 50hz video into something that matters I will potentially run into an issue. Both the video and language issues can be resolved with OpenMemoriesTweak. Once you apply that tweak and disable the language protections you're good to go use the camera; I'd nix both even if you do not use the video if you think it'll be an issue.

The gray market is a great way to get a deal or a better product (this still has some truth; for example, Samsung Exynos phones can be bootloader unlocked but not USDM QCA Snapdragon phones which are permanently locked thanks to the carriers; even unlocked), but it has downsides that mainly affect novices in this market. It would be best if you researched what you are buying with the gray market; I've been doing it since my teens when we had flip phones and unlocked phones were nonexistent to the point I bought my Moto Razr V3i from a US Seller selling the European version. It worked on our US bands for 2G, but not 3G. Additionally, AT&T (Cingular at the time) did not support it because it was a gray market phone they did not sell, but let me have it on my parents' phone plan at my risk. If they hassled me I could have worked around it by buying a US native phone with a good IMEI# (dead or alive, probably alive so I can avoid a lot of drama), putting that on their system, and telling them what direction to shove it when the phone was US 2G capable. The reason that the gray market hasn't let me down is I know how to shop in the gray market and HOW to mitigate the risks involved.

For Sony, follow this when buying:

• J1: AVOID AT ALL COSTS -- JAPANESE ONLY
• CN2: AVOID (China) -- too restricted
• KR2: AVOID (Korea) -- too restricted
• U2/CA2/AU2 (Region unknown; Canada and Australia?): AVOID -- too restrictive
• CEE 1/2/3/4/5: Likely used on the "good" cameras like the EEA-designated models. This is likely what my UK a6000 uses
• "Sony Store" Global model (Sony Japan stores)—Unknown. I WISH I knew what these used to be. If we knew how they did it, it would be a quick way to work around the problem when someone gets stuck with a J1 camera. That said, it may be a toggle Sony sets to disable the language "regionalization" and nothing more like the OpenMemoriesTweak workaround.

The golden ticket with the Sony gray market cameras is the JDM ones that the Sony stores sell as "Tourist"/Overseas models or at a place like MAP Camera where I can tell them, but I wouldn't buy one from Japan overseas that isn't verifiably proven to not be the infamous "J1" variant. Now on the other hand if I could tell in a Japanese camera shop (and it's not done with OpenMemoriesTweak), sure. The language locks do not exist and they support both 50/60hz video specs. That said if you find one of these in Japan or from an online reseller you WILL pay for it. The other issue is the warranty: unless you have the warranty card Sony will not honor the warranty, so best if you buy these used when they're 2+ years old so it's cancelled out in the price unless it's young and comes with it. If I could match the deal I got with the UK a6000 with a JDM tourist model that's what I'd have imported. If this isn't the case, the "safe" gray markets are EU member states bearing in mind the video issues on non-4K bodies. These will generally include English US and English International. That said even the Korean cameras can be switched to English, but those are far more restricted than they ought to be and I would prefer a UK camera without being tweaked with US firmware or OpenMemoriesTweak.

This is how long I have been buying gray market devices -- I bought it gray market because the US version was crippled by iTunes: