Recording medium comprising a plurality of different languages which are selectable independently of each other

A medium comprising:

• a management area;
• and
• a data area,
• wherein said management area and said data area record information, said management area recording control information representing an arrangement of information recorded in said data area, said data area recording a plurality of data units, each of said data units including a group comprising:
• data unit sub-code information which contains control information related to a corresponding data unit,
• video information arranged in a reading direction,
• two or more pieces of sub-picture information to be added to said video information, each piece of sub-picture information being related to said video information, and
• two or more pieces of audio information, each piece of audio information being related to said video information;
• wherein said medium also records information including:
• user-selectable menu items including characters or symbols of different languages, said user-selectable menu items being presented by said subpicture information,
• user-selectable subtitle items including characters of different languages, said user-selectable subtitle items being presented by said subpicture information, and
• user-selectable voice items including speech of different languages, said user-selectable voice items being presented by said audio information;
• and
• wherein any combination of said languages of the user-selected menu Item, user-selected subtitle item, and user-selected voice item is available independently of each other for use by a user of said medium.