diff --git a/mathesar/templates/mathesar/login_base.html b/mathesar/templates/mathesar/login_base.html
index f631ab17fd..cba3d52333 100644
--- a/mathesar/templates/mathesar/login_base.html
+++ b/mathesar/templates/mathesar/login_base.html
@@ -77,6 +77,13 @@
       font-size: var(--size-xx-large);
       text-align: center;
     }
+    .login-card .language-selector {
+      display: block;
+      background-color: transparent;
+      border: 1px solid var(--slate-200);
+      border-radius: 0.285rem;
+      cursor: pointer;
+    }
     @media (max-width: 50rem) {
       .unsupported-device {
         display: block;
@@ -143,5 +150,21 @@
   <div class="login-card align-center">
     <h1>{% block h1 %} {% endblock %}</h1>
     {% block box_content %} {% endblock %}
+    <!-- Commenting it out to avoid releasing any half baked changes
+    {% comment %} set_language https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/topics/i18n/translation/#the-set-language-redirect-view  {% endcomment %}
+    <form action="{% url 'set_language' %}" method="post">{% csrf_token %}
+      <input name="next" type="hidden" value="{{ redirect_to }}">
+      <select name="language" onchange="form.submit()" class="language-selector align-center" aria-label="Display Language">
+          {% get_current_language as LANGUAGE_CODE %}
+          {% get_available_languages as LANGUAGES %}
+          {% get_language_info_list for LANGUAGES as languages %}
+          {% for language in languages %}
+              <option value="{{ language.code }}"{% if language.code == LANGUAGE_CODE %} selected{% endif %}>
+                  {{ language.name_local }} ({{ language.code }})
+              </option>
+          {% endfor %}
+      </select>
+    </form>
+    -->
   </div>
 {% endblock %}
diff --git a/mathesar/urls.py b/mathesar/urls.py
index 62a91e0fe2..4c86832a80 100644
--- a/mathesar/urls.py
+++ b/mathesar/urls.py
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
     path('shares/explorations/<slug>/', views.shared_query, name='shared_query'),
     path('db/', views.home, name='db_home'),
     path('db/<db_name>/', views.schemas, name='schemas'),
+    path('i18n/', include('django.conf.urls.i18n')),
     re_path(
         r'^db/(?P<db_name>\w+)/(?P<schema_id>\w+)/',
         views.schema_home,