HANDS-ON: RUSSIAN

Overview

This is the third of six Hands-On chapters. By now, you have completed Hands-On chapters for Spanish as well as French, Italian, and German. After completing all the Hands-On chapters, you will have localized one web page into eight languages—the languages spoken by more than 80% of the world’s population. If you’d like to try your hand at these exercises, all files used in these chapters are available for download; go to www.bytelevel.com/beyondborders.

For a full list of country and language codes, see Appendix D.

Speakers worldwide : 167 million (approx. 150 million within Russia); Russian is widely spoken in more than 30 countries.

(source: Ethnologue, 14th edition, 2000; www.ethnologue.com)

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