diff --git a/components/ILIAS/Language/classes/Setup/class.ilPluginLanguageUpdatedObjective.php b/components/ILIAS/Language/classes/Setup/class.ilPluginLanguageUpdatedObjective.php
index 2b6c4c93ba95..eed74f1bfdb0 100755
--- a/components/ILIAS/Language/classes/Setup/class.ilPluginLanguageUpdatedObjective.php
+++ b/components/ILIAS/Language/classes/Setup/class.ilPluginLanguageUpdatedObjective.php
@@ -142,10 +142,6 @@ protected function initEnvironment(Setup\Environment $environment, \ilComponentR
             public function __construct()
             {
             }
-            public static function getRootLogger(): ilLogger
-            {
-                return $GLOBALS["DIC"]["ilLog"];
-            }
             public static function getLogger(string $a_component_id): ilLogger
             {
                 return $GLOBALS["DIC"]["ilLog"];
@@ -188,7 +184,11 @@ public function __construct()
         $GLOBALS["DIC"]["ilUser"] = new class () extends ilObjUser {
             public function __construct()
             {
-                $this->prefs["language"] = "en";
+            }
+
+            public function getLanguage(): string
+            {
+                return 'en';
             }
         };
 
diff --git a/components/ILIAS/Language/classes/class.ilLanguage.php b/components/ILIAS/Language/classes/class.ilLanguage.php
index 5ddea200dd2e..6ad0ccb21a83 100755
--- a/components/ILIAS/Language/classes/class.ilLanguage.php
+++ b/components/ILIAS/Language/classes/class.ilLanguage.php
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 use ILIAS\Language\ComponentTranslation\TranslationGettextRepository;
 use ILIAS\Language\ComponentTranslation\TranslationRepository;
 use ILIAS\Language\LanguageIdentifier;
+use ILIAS\components\Logging\NullLogger;
 
 /**
  * language handling
@@ -112,7 +113,9 @@ public function __construct(string $a_lang_key, ?TranslationRepository $translat
         $this->translations = $translations;
         $client_ini = $DIC->clientIni();
 
-        $this->log = $DIC->logger()->forComponent('lang');
+        $this->log = isset($DIC['ilLoggerFactory'], $DIC['logging.factory'])
+            ? $DIC->logger()->forComponent('lang')
+            : new NullLogger();
 
         $this->lang_key = $a_lang_key;