Global Translator – Redirect root to translated page transparently

Hi all and thanks for any ideas. I have a blog where I would like to redirect the root (example.com/) to a translated page from global translator (example.com/es/) and make any permalink requests such as (example.com/hello-world) go to (example.com/es/hello-world) It would also be nice if this were transparent to the end user (they didn’t see the /es/) Is there a way to accomplish this with .htaccess or any other means? Thank you so much for reading!