Hi @andreabryant,
A warm welcome here in the Roku Community!
We understand you're having a problem with the Roku remote since it will not work to navigate into the language selection screen. No worries; help is here. Please try these troubleshooting steps below:
Put your streaming device in pairing mode.
Put your voice remote in pairing mode.
Once your streaming device and remote are connected, the pairing dialog will appear on your TV screen.
Replace your remote batteries.
You may also check out this support article here on how to fix your Roku voice or simple remote that is not working.
Let us know how it works, and we will continue to assist you further.
All the best,
John
Hold the back arrow and home button together and a green light should flash. A remote icon loading screen should come up on the tv showing that it’s pairing. If the remote icon screen is still lading up. Reset the tv and do the process again and it should work