Laravel 5 multi language site with language prefix in the url

So I need multiple languages on a site with urls like this:

mysite/en/language
mysite/it/language
mysite/es/language

I decided to go with the prefix in my routes like so:

$allLanguages = ["en", "it", "es"];

$lng = ( in_array( Request::segment(1), $allLanguages) ) ? Request::segment(1) : "";

Route::group(['prefix' => $lng ], function () {
    Route::get('language', function ()    {
        dd("The language is: " . Request::segment(1));
    });
});

It works, but if I wanted to set up a default language and access url like so mysite/language - it wouldn't work.

What are your thoughts? Is this the best way how to handle multi language site? How to address the problem when accessing site without prefix ( show page with default language )?

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