Thank you!
I've tried the suggestions from the previous posts, but had the strangest experience. I've tried repairing the game via the EA App, which changed my game language to Czech. The problem is - I can't speak Czech, I've never played my game in Czech and I'm a long way from the Czech border.
A household member helped me change the language back through some general Windows thingamajigs (registry or something? He found the file, manually changed the name to en_US, which was my desired language).
The game is still missing bubbles, item names, event tasks, notifications, prompts and UI descriptions from EP13 and I am scared to try repairing the game again since EA App turned out to be very unreliable.
I don't know what to do anymore.
@Hikari38 Please describe exactly what your household member did to change the language back to English, or have him describe it. The issue here is that the text strings are missing or corrupt, and repairing may not have downloaded the correct English-language strings considering the EA App switched you over to Czech.
@puzzlezaddict @Hikari38 I avoided repairing the TS4 because the EA app changed my game language from English to Czech last time. I repaired the game using EA app. The language of the game has changed from English to Czech. Do I have to uninstall and reinstall the game again? The only consolation is that there are others with this problem.
@Sylmos Unfortunately, the only fixes for this issue are repairing and reinstalling. But if the only affected items are from Growing Together, you could try deleting and reinstalling just that pack. Each one has a folder inside [install location]\The Sims 4; Growing Together's folder is EP13. So delete that, clear the EA App's cache:
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/clear-cache-to-fix-problems-with-your-games/
Restart your computer, and download the pack again.
If you still don't have the proper text strings for Growing Together, please open that EP13 folder and post a screenshot of the contents.
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I have all of the text strings from Growing Together, which are not in English but still in Czech. To have The Sims 4 in English, I have to uninstall and reinstall the game again, which takes a lot of time because of the many add-ons. With the next update that will cause repairing the Sims 4, will the EA app change my game language from English to Czech again?
What he did was find the Windows Registry Editor (typed "regedit" in the system search bar) and then found the tab HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Maxis\The Sims 4. Then he found a file under the name of "Locale". Right clicked it, chose the option to "Modify...". A window popped up and there he found the "value data" section, where he typed en_US and the game language changed back to English, without having to reinstall the entire game.
I bought the base game as a physical copy and I believe I used the "traditional" way till everything moved to digital copies only. Then I would purchase the following DLC via Origin. Growing Together is the first EP I bought via EA App, since I was forced to migrate.
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