diff --git a/src/libcalamares/GlobalStorage.cpp b/src/libcalamares/GlobalStorage.cpp
index 32ae02191..3fc7d0fa9 100644
--- a/src/libcalamares/GlobalStorage.cpp
+++ b/src/libcalamares/GlobalStorage.cpp
@@ -125,33 +125,6 @@ GlobalStoragePythonWrapper::insert( const std::string& key,
                 CalamaresPython::variantFromPyObject( value ) );
 }
 
-bp::list
-GlobalStoragePythonWrapper::gettext_languages() const
-{
-    bp::list pyList;
-    QVariant localeConf_ = m_gs->value( "localeConf" );
-    if ( localeConf_.canConvert< QVariantMap >() )
-    {
-        QVariant lang_ = localeConf_.value< QVariantMap >()[ "LANG" ];
-        if ( lang_.canConvert< QString >() )
-        {
-            QString lang = lang_.value< QString >();
-            pyList.append( lang.toStdString() );
-            if ( lang.indexOf( '.' ) > 0)
-            {
-                lang.truncate( lang.indexOf( '.' ) );
-                pyList.append( lang.toStdString() );
-            }
-            if ( lang.indexOf( '_' ) > 0)
-            {
-                lang.truncate( lang.indexOf( '_' ) );
-                pyList.append( lang.toStdString() );
-            }
-        }
-    }
-    return pyList;
-}
-
 bp::list
 GlobalStoragePythonWrapper::keys() const
 {
diff --git a/src/libcalamares/GlobalStorage.h b/src/libcalamares/GlobalStorage.h
index 92def182e..ff8d32682 100644
--- a/src/libcalamares/GlobalStorage.h
+++ b/src/libcalamares/GlobalStorage.h
@@ -87,10 +87,6 @@ public:
     int remove( const std::string& key );
     boost::python::api::object value( const std::string& key ) const;
 
-    // Special case to simplify Python code, gets localeConf["LANG"]
-    // from the global store, in list form with language variants
-    // expanded (e.g [ "en_GB.UTF-8", "en_GB", "en" ] ).
-    boost::python::list gettext_languages() const;
 private:
     Calamares::GlobalStorage* m_gs;
 };
diff --git a/src/libcalamares/PythonJob.cpp b/src/libcalamares/PythonJob.cpp
index f6ae92384..bad463fa7 100644
--- a/src/libcalamares/PythonJob.cpp
+++ b/src/libcalamares/PythonJob.cpp
@@ -86,8 +86,7 @@ BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE( libcalamares )
         .def( "insert",     &CalamaresPython::GlobalStoragePythonWrapper::insert )
         .def( "keys",       &CalamaresPython::GlobalStoragePythonWrapper::keys )
         .def( "remove",     &CalamaresPython::GlobalStoragePythonWrapper::remove )
-        .def( "value",      &CalamaresPython::GlobalStoragePythonWrapper::value )
-        .def( "gettext_languages", &CalamaresPython::GlobalStoragePythonWrapper::gettext_languages );
+        .def( "value",      &CalamaresPython::GlobalStoragePythonWrapper::value );
 
     // libcalamares.utils submodule starts here
     bp::object utilsModule( bp::handle<>( bp::borrowed( PyImport_AddModule( "libcalamares.utils" ) ) ) );
@@ -217,6 +216,14 @@ BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE( libcalamares )
         "Applying the function to a string obscured by this function will result "
         "in the original string."
     );
+
+    
+    bp::def( 
+        "gettext_languages", 
+        &CalamaresPython::gettext_languages, 
+        bp::args(),
+        "Returns list of languages (most to least-specific) for gettext."
+    );
 }
 
 
diff --git a/src/libcalamares/PythonJobApi.cpp b/src/libcalamares/PythonJobApi.cpp
index 10b66b39f..1e84d3130 100644
--- a/src/libcalamares/PythonJobApi.cpp
+++ b/src/libcalamares/PythonJobApi.cpp
@@ -208,4 +208,31 @@ obscure( const std::string& string )
     return CalamaresUtils::obscure( QString::fromStdString( string ) ).toStdString();
 }
 
+std::list< std::string >
+gettext_languages()
+{
+    bp::list pyList;
+    QVariant localeConf_ = m_gs->value( "localeConf" );
+    if ( localeConf_.canConvert< QVariantMap >() )
+    {
+        QVariant lang_ = localeConf_.value< QVariantMap >()[ "LANG" ];
+        if ( lang_.canConvert< QString >() )
+        {
+            QString lang = lang_.value< QString >();
+            pyList.append( lang.toStdString() );
+            if ( lang.indexOf( '.' ) > 0)
+            {
+                lang.truncate( lang.indexOf( '.' ) );
+                pyList.append( lang.toStdString() );
+            }
+            if ( lang.indexOf( '_' ) > 0)
+            {
+                lang.truncate( lang.indexOf( '_' ) );
+                pyList.append( lang.toStdString() );
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    return pyList;
+}
+
 }
diff --git a/src/libcalamares/PythonJobApi.h b/src/libcalamares/PythonJobApi.h
index a3443ad76..09835b2ed 100644
--- a/src/libcalamares/PythonJobApi.h
+++ b/src/libcalamares/PythonJobApi.h
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ std::string check_target_env_output( const boost::python::list& args,
 
 std::string obscure( const std::string& string );
 
+std::string gettext_path();
+
+std::list< std::string > gettext_languages();
+
 void debug( const std::string& s );
 
 inline int _handle_check_target_env_call_error( int ec, const QString& cmd );