translation todo: design affordance for switching between languages

[arena]

How might we provide an obvious way for readers to switch languages that looks good with the visual design?

[arena]

Here is an option inspired by the affordance used on the UN website (http://www.un.org/en)

[arena]

Here is an option showing links in the footer. This would ideally be combined with a script that detects the language of the reader's browser and automatically selects the matching language (if that language is an option, default would probably be English).

[arena]

No flags. :)
Here is a website devoted to the topic of why flags are a bad idea.
http://flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/

ps - links in the footer are easily found by users