diff --git a/electrum/i18n.py b/electrum/i18n.py
index 5734f72e5..a56471a07 100644
--- a/electrum/i18n.py
+++ b/electrum/i18n.py
@@ -125,42 +125,46 @@ def set_language(x: Optional[str]) -> None:
         _language = gettext.translation('electrum', LOCALE_DIR, fallback=True, languages=[x])
 
 
+# note: The values (human-visible lang names) should be either in English or in their own lang,
+#       but NOT translated to the currently selected lang.
+#       e.g. "fr_FR" we could show as either "French" or "Français", or even as "French - Français",
+#       but it is evil to show it as "Französisch". How am I supposed to switch back to English from Korean??? :)
 languages = {
     '': _('Default'),
-    'ar_SA': _('Arabic'),
-    'bg_BG': _('Bulgarian'),
-    'cs_CZ': _('Czech'),
-    'da_DK': _('Danish'),
-    'de_DE': _('German'),
-    'el_GR': _('Greek'),
-    'eo_UY': _('Esperanto'),
-    'en_UK': _('English'),  # selecting this guarantees seeing the untranslated source strings
-    'es_ES': _('Spanish'),
-    'fa_IR': _('Persian'),
-    'fr_FR': _('French'),
-    'hu_HU': _('Hungarian'),
-    'hy_AM': _('Armenian'),
-    'id_ID': _('Indonesian'),
-    'it_IT': _('Italian'),
-    'ja_JP': _('Japanese'),
-    'ky_KG': _('Kyrgyz'),
-    'lv_LV': _('Latvian'),
-    'nb_NO': _('Norwegian Bokmal'),
-    'nl_NL': _('Dutch'),
-    'pl_PL': _('Polish'),
-    'pt_BR': _('Portuguese (Brazil)'),
-    'pt_PT': _('Portuguese'),
-    'ro_RO': _('Romanian'),
-    'ru_RU': _('Russian'),
-    'sk_SK': _('Slovak'),
-    'sl_SI': _('Slovenian'),
-    'sv_SE': _('Swedish'),
-    'ta_IN': _('Tamil'),
-    'th_TH': _('Thai'),
-    'tr_TR': _('Turkish'),
-    'uk_UA': _('Ukrainian'),
-    'vi_VN': _('Vietnamese'),
-    'zh_CN': _('Chinese Simplified'),
-    'zh_TW': _('Chinese Traditional')
+    'ar_SA': 'Arabic',
+    'bg_BG': 'Bulgarian',
+    'cs_CZ': 'Czech',
+    'da_DK': 'Danish',
+    'de_DE': 'German',
+    'el_GR': 'Greek',
+    'eo_UY': 'Esperanto',
+    'en_UK': 'English',  # selecting this guarantees seeing the untranslated source strings
+    'es_ES': 'Spanish',
+    'fa_IR': 'Persian',
+    'fr_FR': 'French',
+    'hu_HU': 'Hungarian',
+    'hy_AM': 'Armenian',
+    'id_ID': 'Indonesian',
+    'it_IT': 'Italian',
+    'ja_JP': 'Japanese',
+    'ky_KG': 'Kyrgyz',
+    'lv_LV': 'Latvian',
+    'nb_NO': 'Norwegian Bokmal',
+    'nl_NL': 'Dutch',
+    'pl_PL': 'Polish',
+    'pt_BR': 'Portuguese (Brazil)',
+    'pt_PT': 'Portuguese',
+    'ro_RO': 'Romanian',
+    'ru_RU': 'Russian',
+    'sk_SK': 'Slovak',
+    'sl_SI': 'Slovenian',
+    'sv_SE': 'Swedish',
+    'ta_IN': 'Tamil',
+    'th_TH': 'Thai',
+    'tr_TR': 'Turkish',
+    'uk_UA': 'Ukrainian',
+    'vi_VN': 'Vietnamese',
+    'zh_CN': 'Chinese Simplified',
+    'zh_TW': 'Chinese Traditional',
 }
 assert '' in languages