I just did a fresh install on my Macbook after picking up a new hard drive yesterday and was looking for some ways to minimize my system’s footprint as much as possible. While doing this I stumbled upon an application called Monolingual. Essentially it allows you to remove the loads of unnecessary language resources that are spread throughout your system. It is really quite amazing when you start seeing the amount of foreign languages that are supported by default and would never be used by the average user. I was amazed at how much free space I gained after doing it, almost 2GB!

You can find the application here.