diff --git a/Code/Legacy/CrySystem/SystemInit.cpp b/Code/Legacy/CrySystem/SystemInit.cpp
index cce3cf4aec..f24bcd2d41 100644
--- a/Code/Legacy/CrySystem/SystemInit.cpp
+++ b/Code/Legacy/CrySystem/SystemInit.cpp
@@ -896,16 +896,14 @@ void CSystem::InitLocalization()
     if (auto console = AZ::Interface<AZ::IConsole>::Get(); console != nullptr)
     {
         AZ::CVarFixedString languageAudio;
-        if (auto result = console->GetCvarValue("g_languageAudio", languageAudio); result == AZ::GetValueResult::Success)
+        console->GetCvarValue("g_languageAudio", languageAudio);
+        if (languageAudio.empty())
         {
-            if (languageAudio.size() == 0)
-            {
-                console->PerformCommand(AZStd::string::format("g_languageAudio %s", language.c_str()).c_str());
-            }
-            else
-            {
-                language.assign(languageAudio.data(), languageAudio.size());
-            }
+            console->PerformCommand(AZStd::string::format("g_languageAudio %s", language.c_str()).c_str());
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            language.assign(languageAudio.data(), languageAudio.size());
         }
     }
     OpenLanguageAudioPak(language);
diff --git a/Gems/AudioEngineWwise/Code/Source/Editor/AudioWwiseLoader.cpp b/Gems/AudioEngineWwise/Code/Source/Editor/AudioWwiseLoader.cpp
index 616a30994c..19038dc54c 100644
--- a/Gems/AudioEngineWwise/Code/Source/Editor/AudioWwiseLoader.cpp
+++ b/Gems/AudioEngineWwise/Code/Source/Editor/AudioWwiseLoader.cpp
@@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ namespace AudioControls
     //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------//
     void CAudioWwiseLoader::LoadSoundBanks(const AZStd::string_view rootFolder, const AZStd::string_view subPath, bool isLocalized)
     {
-        auto foundFiles = Audio::FindFilesInPath(rootFolder, "*");
+        AZ::IO::FixedMaxPath searchPath(rootFolder);
+        searchPath /= subPath;
+        auto foundFiles = Audio::FindFilesInPath(searchPath.Native(), "*");
         bool isLocalizedLoaded = isLocalized;
 
         for (const auto& filePath : foundFiles)
@@ -71,7 +73,7 @@ namespace AudioControls
                     // same content (in the future we want to have a
                     // consistency report to highlight if this is not the case)
                     m_localizationFolder.assign(fileName.Native().data(), fileName.Native().size());
-                    LoadSoundBanks(rootFolder, m_localizationFolder, true);
+                    LoadSoundBanks(searchPath.Native(), m_localizationFolder, true);
                     isLocalizedLoaded = true;
                 }
             }
diff --git a/Gems/AudioEngineWwise/Code/Source/Engine/AudioSystemImpl_wwise.cpp b/Gems/AudioEngineWwise/Code/Source/Engine/AudioSystemImpl_wwise.cpp
index 4095e3bf84..e4933728d4 100644
--- a/Gems/AudioEngineWwise/Code/Source/Engine/AudioSystemImpl_wwise.cpp
+++ b/Gems/AudioEngineWwise/Code/Source/Engine/AudioSystemImpl_wwise.cpp
@@ -2173,16 +2173,7 @@ namespace Audio
     {
         if (language)
         {
-            AZStd::string languageSubfolder;
-
-            if (azstricmp(language, "english") == 0)
-            {
-                languageSubfolder = "english(us)";
-            }
-            else
-            {
-                languageSubfolder = language;
-            }
+            AZStd::string languageSubfolder(language);
 
             languageSubfolder += "/";