This article would tell you how show article on the home page of your Drupal-based site on different languages. One of the possible ways is to output a node on the main page that will be changed to the respective language when the language was changed for a whole site.

First make sure that multilanguage is set for your site and an ability to translate nodes is enabled.

Then you should:

1. Open the required node for editing and set a path: “home”.
2. Make the same for all translations using the same value of a path (“home”)
3. Open “Site information” page admin/settings/site-information and specify a path to main page (“home”)
4. Save settings and check languages switching on the main page.

Possible problems:

If you receive this message:

user warning: Duplicate entry ‘home-en’ for key 2 query: UPDATE url_alias SET src = ‘node/126′, dst = ‘home’, language = ‘en’ WHERE dst = ‘home’ in /home/ … /modules/path/path.module on line 108.

Then you already used such path synonym but for a page that is neutral to language.

You can try to change path synonyms here: admin/build/path. Find your path synonym and delete it, if language column shows “All”.

How to show node on the home page in one language

If you wish to shoe a node in home page of multilanguage site always in one language, you should open admin/settings/site-information and specify system path to the node instead of path synonym there:

node/10