How to Stop Chrome from Translating a Site You Can Already Read
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Chrome keeps translating a site into English, or throwing up the translate popup, on pages you read fine in the original. Chrome decides to translate based on your preferred languages list, not on what you can read, and once you accept translation for a language it may switch to translating it every time. Both are settings you can change.
Open the translate popup
Click the translate icon at the right end of the address bar. If the page has already been translated, click the original language name in the popup to switch back to the untranslated page.
Choose Never translate
In the same popup, click the three-dot menu and pick Never translate
Remove the language from automatic translation
If Chrome is translating without asking, open Settings, Languages. Under Google Translate, find Automatically translate these languages, click the three-dot menu next to the language, then Remove. To block offers for it as well, click Add languages under Don't offer to translate these languages and tick it there.
Add the language to your preferred languages
Under Settings, Languages, Preferred languages, click Add languages, tick the language, and click Add. Chrome treats languages on this list as ones you read and does not offer to translate them. On Android the same list is under Settings, Languages, and the translate choices are under Translation settings.
Turn off Google Translate entirely
If you never want the popup, open Settings, Languages, and turn off Use Google Translate. The address bar icon still appears, and you can translate a page on demand by clicking it, but Chrome stops offering on its own.
If the wrong language is being detected. Some sites declare the wrong language in their code, so Chrome offers to translate an English page from, say, Dutch. Never translate this site is the right fix there, since blocking Dutch would also affect real Dutch pages.