Language Switcher as menu item / drop down list

Hi,

I am new to Drupal. Great product but a little hard to begin! I am building a multilingual site and have successfully installed multilingual modules (i18n, l10n,potx), enabled languages etc and figured out how to build the menus so that they switch language content when I change the site's interface language using the Language Switcher block. However I have been unable to figure out how to present language selections (presented in the language switcher block) as a drop down list, prefereably as a series of parent-child items that I could then add as a level 1 item to my main site menu. Any suggestions please?
PS - I have reviewed the content at http://drupal.org/node/188269 "Add a language switcher link to $primary_links" but I do not understand how or what to do with such code snippets in order to see if they can deliver the functionality I require.
Any help very gratefully appreciated.