diff --git a/src/app/app.js b/src/app/app.js
index 6e07f03..171899f 100644
--- a/src/app/app.js
+++ b/src/app/app.js
@@ -5,10 +5,13 @@ import PagesPie from './pages-pie.js';
 //import registerServiceWorker from './registerServiceWorker';
 import injectTapEventPlugin from 'react-tap-event-plugin';
 import MuiThemeProvider from 'material-ui/styles/MuiThemeProvider';
+import __, { changeLanguage } from './translation'
 
 import {Header} from './header'
 import Footer from './footer'
 
+window.__ = __
+
 
 if(typeof WEB !== 'undefined')
 {
@@ -130,6 +133,10 @@ class App extends Component {
 			window.p2pStatus = status
 			this.forceUpdate()
 		})
+
+		window.torrentSocket.on('changeLanguage', (lang) => {
+			changeLanguage(lang, () => this.forceUpdate())
+		})
 	}
 	componentWillUnmount() {
 		appReady = false;
@@ -138,6 +145,7 @@ class App extends Component {
 		return (
 			<MuiThemeProvider>
 				<div>
+					{ __('welcome') }
 					{
 						((window.currentWindow && !window.currentWindow.isModal()) || typeof WEB !== 'undefined')
 						&&
diff --git a/src/app/translation.js b/src/app/translation.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..319dad2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/app/translation.js
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+const fs = require('fs')
+let dictionary = {}
+
+function loadJSON(file, callback) {
+	if(fs)
+	{
+		callback(JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(file, 'utf8')))
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		const xobj = new XMLHttpRequest();
+		xobj.overrideMimeType("application/json");
+		xobj.open('GET', file, true);
+		xobj.onreadystatechange = function() {
+			if (xobj.readyState == 4 && xobj.status == 200) {
+				// .open will NOT return a value but simply returns undefined in async mode so use a callback
+				callback(JSON.parse(xobj.responseText));
+			}
+		}
+		xobj.send(null);
+	}
+}
+
+const changeLanguage = (lang, callback) => {
+	loadJSON(`translations/${lang}.json`, (data) => {
+		dictionary = data.translations
+		if(callback)
+			callback()
+	})
+}
+
+export { changeLanguage }
+
+export default (word) => {
+	const translation = dictionary[word]
+	if(translation === undefined)
+	{
+		return word
+	}
+	return translation
+}
diff --git a/src/background/background.js b/src/background/background.js
index fa10fd5..34eca73 100644
--- a/src/background/background.js
+++ b/src/background/background.js
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import { autoUpdater } from 'electron-updater'
 
 import { devMenuTemplate } from "./menu/dev_menu_template";
 import { editMenuTemplate } from "./menu/edit_menu_template";
-import { settingsMenuTemplate } from "./menu/config_menu_template";
+import { settingsMenuTemplateFunc } from "./menu/config_menu_template";
 import { aboutMenuTemplate } from "./menu/about_menu_template";
 import { manageMenuTemplate } from "./menu/manage_menu_template";
 
@@ -24,18 +24,6 @@ import fs from 'fs';
 // plugins and dev tool
 require('electron-context-menu')({})
 
-const setApplicationMenu = () => {
-  const menus = [editMenuTemplate, manageMenuTemplate, settingsMenuTemplate, aboutMenuTemplate];
-  if (env.name !== "production") {
-    menus.push(devMenuTemplate);
-  }
-  // append version as disabled menu item
-  menus.push({
-    label: app.getVersion()
-  })
-  Menu.setApplicationMenu(Menu.buildFromTemplate(menus));
-};
-
 // Save userData in separate folders for each environment.
 // Thanks to this you can use production and development versions of the app
 // on same machine like those are two separate apps.
@@ -59,11 +47,29 @@ const appConfig = require('./config')
 const spiderCall = require('./spider')
 const dbPatcher = require('./dbPatcher')
 const startSphinx = require('./sphinx')
+const { changeLanguage } = require('../app/translation')
 
 let mainWindow = undefined
 let sphinx = undefined
 let spider = undefined
 
+const setApplicationMenu = () => {
+  const settingsMenuTemplate = settingsMenuTemplateFunc(appConfig, (lang) => {
+    // update menu translation
+    changeLanguage(lang, () => setApplicationMenu())
+  })
+  const menus = [editMenuTemplate, manageMenuTemplate, settingsMenuTemplate, aboutMenuTemplate];
+
+  if (env.name !== "production") {
+    menus.push(devMenuTemplate);
+  }
+  // append version as disabled menu item
+  menus.push({
+    label: app.getVersion()
+  })
+  Menu.setApplicationMenu(Menu.buildFromTemplate(menus));
+};
+
 const util = require('util');
 if (!fs.existsSync(app.getPath("userData"))){
   fs.mkdirSync(app.getPath("userData"));
@@ -144,7 +150,7 @@ app.on("ready", () => {
   });
 
   dbPatcher(() => {
-    setApplicationMenu();
+    changeLanguage(appConfig.language, () => setApplicationMenu())
 
     mainWindow.loadURL(
       url.format({
diff --git a/src/background/config.js b/src/background/config.js
index 8827284..4bf53ce 100644
--- a/src/background/config.js
+++ b/src/background/config.js
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ let config = {
 	udpTrackersPort: 4446,
 	udpTrackersTimeout: 3 * 60 * 1000,
 	peerId: undefined, 
+	language: 'en',
 	
 	p2p: true,
 	p2pConnections: 10,
diff --git a/src/background/menu/config_menu_template.js b/src/background/menu/config_menu_template.js
index 152acf3..b6aa345 100644
--- a/src/background/menu/config_menu_template.js
+++ b/src/background/menu/config_menu_template.js
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 import { app, BrowserWindow } from "electron";
+import fs from 'fs'
+import path from 'path'
+import __ from '../../app/translation'
 
-export const settingsMenuTemplate = {
+export const settingsMenuTemplateFunc = (config, onLanguageChange) => ({
   label: "Settings",
   submenu: [
     {
@@ -16,6 +19,27 @@ export const settingsMenuTemplate = {
       click: () => {
         BrowserWindow.getFocusedWindow().webContents.send('url', '/filters')
       }
+    },
+    {
+      label: __("Language"),
+      submenu: (() => {
+        const translations = []
+        fs.readdirSync('translations').forEach(translation => {
+          const translationJson = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(`translations/${translation}`, 'utf8'))
+          translations.push({
+            label: translationJson.nameOriginal,
+            click: () => {
+              const lang = path.basename(translation, '.json')
+              BrowserWindow.getFocusedWindow().webContents.send('changeLanguage', lang)
+              config.language = lang
+              if(onLanguageChange)
+                onLanguageChange(lang)
+              console.log('changed translation to:', lang)
+            }
+          })
+        })
+        return translations
+      })()
     }
   ]
-};
+});
diff --git a/translations/en.json b/translations/en.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b126a8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/translations/en.json
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+	"name": "English",
+	"nameOriginal": "English",
+	"translations":
+	{
+		"welcome": "welcome"
+	}
+}
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diff --git a/translations/ru.json b/translations/ru.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ed7f6e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/translations/ru.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+	"name": "Russian",
+	"nameOriginal": "Русский",
+	"translations":
+	{
+		"welcome": "приветствие",
+		"Language": "Язык"
+	}
+}
\ No newline at end of file