Letting the user decide which language to use

While it's not a part of Django, almost all projects that are internationalized use this pattern; thus I think it's important that you are aware of it. Most sites that have multiple language options present the user with a menu to select which language they want to view the site in. Let's create that. Modify the templates/base.html template to match the following:

{% load i18n %}

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<title>MMDB</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>MMDB</h1>
<div>
<span>Select Language</span>
<ul>
            {% get_available_languages as available_languages %}
            {% for lang_code, lang_name in available_languages %}
 {% language lang_code %}<li><a href="{% url ...

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