I believe that regardless of what language your front end is, the dashboard, and admin areas will stay in the language version you installed, so english concrete5 stays english. There is alsothe internationalization add on herehttp://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/internationalization/...

Setup as many different languages as you want with this free add-on. You get complete flexibility for each language, but also the ability to quickly jump from one translation to another as you navigate the site.

There is also this how-to on localization which should also prove helpfulhttp://www.concrete5.org/documentation/developers/system/localizati...

Its at least something to look at, until someone comes along with an answer.

> I believe that regardless of what language your front end is, the dashboard, and admin areas will stay in the language version you installed, so english concrete5 stays english.

I'm not sure that's true, at least, iirc, it was not in 5.4.x.

> There is also the internationalization add on

I know about it, but I want separation of front-end from the back-end.

Have you tried downloading it to a test site ? I think that would be the easiest way to find out for sure. I played with the add on, and it didnt change my core, maybe a different version sure, but I would try it out that way you know for sure.

> Have you tried downloading it to a test site ?

Atm, I play with 5.5.2 and I'm not aware (yet) of any language pack available.

> I played with the add on, and it didnt change my core, maybe a different version sure, but I would try it out that way you know for sure.

Add-on is for managing multi-sites to help you translate *content* of the site site and switch between languages.

I'm concerned with the separation of front-end & back-end translations of the C5 core & add-ons.

Edit: Tried to download & install German language pack for 5.5.1 and, as anticipated, it changes back-end to the German as well.