diff --git a/addons/website/views/views.xml b/addons/website/views/views.xml
index c8f1cbbff30..3ce9260046e 100644
--- a/addons/website/views/views.xml
+++ b/addons/website/views/views.xml
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
                                                 <li name="contactus"><a t-href="/page/website.contactus">Contact us</a></li>
                                                 <li t-if="user_id.id == website.public_user.id"><a href="/admin">Sign in</a></li>
                                                 <li t-if="user_id.id != website.public_user.id"><a href="/admin"><t t-field="user_id.name"/></a></li>
-                                                <li t-if="len(website.language_ids) &gt; 1" class="dropdown">
+                                                <li t-if="request.multilang and len(website.language_ids) &gt; 1" class="dropdown">
                                                     <!-- TODO: use flags for language selection -->
                                                     <t t-set="lang_selected" t-value="[lg for lg in website.language_ids if lg.code == lang]"/>
                                                     <a class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#">
diff --git a/addons/website/website.py b/addons/website/website.py
index 35631a835f6..f48cba9ecf2 100644
--- a/addons/website/website.py
+++ b/addons/website/website.py
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ class website(osv.osv):
         request.context.update({
             'lang': lang,
             'langs': [lg.code for lg in request.website.language_ids],
+            'multilang': request.multilang,
             'is_public_user': is_public_user,
             'is_master_lang': is_master_lang,
             'editable': not is_public_user,