diff --git a/features/localized-explore/data.json b/features/localized-explore/data.json
index 2ed32d0c..4f74e433 100644
--- a/features/localized-explore/data.json
+++ b/features/localized-explore/data.json
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 {
   "title": "Projects from Country",
-  "description": "On the explore page, makes projects from other countries less visible. This is to only show projects in languages that you understand.",
+  "description": "On the explore page, makes projects from countries that speak other languages less visible.",
   "credits": [
+    { "username": "MaterArc", "url": "https://scratch.mit.edu/users/MaterArc/" },
     { "username": "KitsunLilly", "url": "https://scratch.mit.edu/users/KitsunLilly/" },
     { "username": "rgantzos", "url": "https://scratch.mit.edu/users/rgantzos/" }
   ],
diff --git a/features/localized-explore/script.js b/features/localized-explore/script.js
index 90091f65..439f35a0 100644
--- a/features/localized-explore/script.js
+++ b/features/localized-explore/script.js
@@ -9,9 +9,27 @@ export default async function ({ feature, console }) {
     ).json()
   ).profile.country;
 
-  ScratchTools.waitForElements("div.thumbnail.project", detectCountry);
+  async function getLanguage(country) {
+    try {
+      const res = await fetch(
+        `https://data.scratchtools.app/language/${encodeURIComponent(country)}?fullText=true`
+      );
+      if (!res.ok) return null;
+      const data = await res.json();
+      if (data && data[0] && data[0].languages) {
+        return Object.values(data[0].languages)[0];
+      }
+      return null;
+    } catch {
+      return null;
+    }
+  }
 
-  async function detectCountry(element) {
+  const myLanguage = await getLanguage(myCountry);
+
+  ScratchTools.waitForElements("div.thumbnail.project", detectLanguage);
+
+  async function detectLanguage(element) {
     let author = element.querySelector(".thumbnail-creator a");
 
     let data = await (
@@ -23,7 +41,9 @@ export default async function ({ feature, console }) {
       )
     ).json();
 
-    if (data.profile.country !== myCountry) {
+    const authorLanguage = await getLanguage(data.profile.country);
+
+    if (authorLanguage !== myLanguage) {
       element.classList.add("ste-outside-country");
       if (feature.settings.get("hide-completely")) {
         element.classList.add("ste-country-hide");
@@ -35,7 +55,6 @@ export default async function ({ feature, console }) {
 
   feature.settings.addEventListener("changed", function ({ key, value }) {
     if (key === "hide-completely") {
-      console.log(value);
       if (value) {
         document
           .querySelectorAll(".ste-outside-country")
@@ -51,6 +70,6 @@ export default async function ({ feature, console }) {
   });
 
   feature.addEventListener("enabled", function() {
-    ScratchTools.waitForElements("div.thumbnail.project", detectCountry);
+    ScratchTools.waitForElements("div.thumbnail.project", detectLanguage);
   })
 }