diff --git a/app/controllers/application_controller.rb b/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
index 3e32d4c27..2ab2838c2 100644
--- a/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
   end
 
   def set_locale
-    I18n.default_locale = DEFAULT_LANGUAGE
     if current_user
       I18n.locale = current_user.language
     else
diff --git a/config/initializers/locale.rb b/config/initializers/locale.rb
index 08d3923b0..395a55d68 100644
--- a/config/initializers/locale.rb
+++ b/config/initializers/locale.rb
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@
 
 # The default locale is :en and all translations from config/locales/*.rb,yml are auto loaded.
 I18n.load_path += Dir[Rails.root.join('config', 'locales', '**', '*.{rb,yml}')]
-I18n.default_locale = :en
+I18n.default_locale = DEFAULT_LANGUAGE