diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 63b4d34..5b5bf28 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -55,6 +55,21 @@ above:
 
 Templates are stored in a file called `templates.yaml` located in the application root. Checkout the `Tidepooler example <https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask/tree/master/samples/tidepooler>`_ to see why it makes sense to extract speech out of the code and into templates as the number of spoken phrases grow.
 
+Multi-Language Skills:
+---------------------
+
+If you write a multi-language skill, you can set many localizations of the messages 
+adding the locale as suffix to the message in templates UAML file, for example :
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+    hello_en_US: Beautiful appartement {{ firstname }} ! 
+    hello_en_UK: Beautiful flat {{firstname}}  !
+    hello_fr: Bel appartement  {{ firstname }} !
+    hello: Beautiful appartement or flat {{firstname}} !
+
+Notice that if the right localization is not found, the unlocalized version is used.
+
 Features
 ===============
 
diff --git a/flask_ask/core.py b/flask_ask/core.py
index 987659e..1065b1f 100644
--- a/flask_ask/core.py
+++ b/flask_ask/core.py
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ def _flask_view_func(self, *args, **kwargs):
         ask_payload = self._alexa_request(verify=self.ask_verify_requests)
         dbgdump(ask_payload)
         request_body = models._Field(ask_payload)
-
+        
         self.request = request_body.request
         self.version = request_body.version
         self.context = getattr(request_body, 'context', models._Field())
@@ -875,16 +875,17 @@ def _map_params_to_view_args(self, view_name, arg_names):
 
 
 class YamlLoader(BaseLoader):
-
+    
     def __init__(self, app, path):
         self.path = app.root_path + os.path.sep + path
         self.mapping = {}
         self._reload_mapping()
-
+    
+        
     def _reload_mapping(self):
         if os.path.isfile(self.path):
             self.last_mtime = os.path.getmtime(self.path)
-            with open(self.path) as f:
+            with open(self.path, encoding="utf-8") as f:
                 self.mapping = yaml.safe_load(f.read())
 
     def get_source(self, environment, template):
@@ -892,7 +893,19 @@ def get_source(self, environment, template):
             return None, None, None
         if self.last_mtime != os.path.getmtime(self.path):
             self._reload_mapping()
-        if template in self.mapping:
+        
+        locale = getattr(_app_ctx_stack.top, '_ask_request').locale
+        source = None
+        for sfx in (locale.replace('-','_'), locale.split('-',1)[0]):
+            key = template+"_"+sfx
+            if key in self.mapping:
+                source = self.mapping[key]
+                break
+        if not source:
+            logger.warn("No localized template found for locale %r and template %r, falling back to default.", locale, template)
             source = self.mapping[template]
+        
+        if source:
             return source, None, lambda: source == self.mapping.get(template)
+            
         raise TemplateNotFound(template)