Flickr went multi-national yesterday, adding seven additional languages: French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese. 

[The update][1] hasn't changed the layout of the site at all, in other words it's still one large site with all the photos in a single system, but you may notice an additional param in the urls specifying your default language.

To set your default language just login and you'll see links at the bottom of almost any page that will set your language preferences (via a cookie).

In addition to main site language preferences, the Flickr Forum and Help by Email features have also gained international language support and there are new tools to create localized descriptions of your groups.

As you might expect the Flickr uploader also features additional language support. So far an updated Windows uploader is available with the Mac version said to be arriving soon.

In all the new language support is a welcome addition and makes those rotating welcome messages on your Flickr homepage less of an empty gesture.


[1]: http://blog.flickr.com/en/2007/06/12/flickr-international-launch/ "Bienvenue! Welcome! 歡迎! Willkommen! Benvenuto! 반갑습니다! Seja bem-vindo(a)! Bienvenido!"