defaults in a different language

I am still finding my way around my imac, and i was just wondering why all of my defaults in iworks or pages, and iweb come up in a different language. I am not sure if this is normal or if there is some way that i could change them to come up in english. For example, when i was trying to make a web page with iweb and i would click on the about me page, etc..all of the preset stuff was in german, or some other language. I just thought that was how it was, but today i opened the pages program and when i would click on a template to open, all of the preset writing in that was in the same language. My computer was a refurb, is it possible that the person who had it before me was from a different country or is this how it is supposed to show up..any help would be appreciated. thanks.

try Apple (upper left) -> System Preferences -> International (under personal) and make sure english is at the top of the list

OSURico112 said:

try Apple (upper left) -> System Preferences -> International (under personal) and make sure english is at the top of the list

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I did that and english was on the top of the list, however everything is still in the other language. Is it supposed to be in a different language or is it just that way on my imac?