Languages: March 2008 Archives

Russian has recently been added as hi5's 15th language option, and is being used by a quickly growing community of users in the Russian Federation, its emigrants and individuals in countries of the former Soviet Union.

A recent article in eMarketer pointed out that Russia is expected to become the #2 Internet market in Europe — second only to Germany — over the next five years. "Russia, Poland and the other Eastern European countries are the growth drivers for Internet adoption in Europe," wrote eMarketer senior analyst, Ben Macklin.

Russia is actually the world's most commonly spoken Slavic language, a language family that includes Polish, Ukranian, Belarusian, Czech, Serbian, Slovenian, Bosnian, and many others. It is a synthetic language with six cases, posing a non-trivial internationalizationchallenge for us.

To the nearly 300 million who count Russian as a primary or secondary language, hi5 extends its welcome!

hi5 приглашает всех, кто говорит по-русски!