The internationally popular Facebook has announced it will make available a German version of the networking site.

More than 2,000 German-speaking Facebook members volunteered to translate the site from English to German in under two weeks, the company said in a statement to Reuters.

German is the third language version of the site. Volunteers translated the English site into Spanish early in February. Reportedly, Facebook also plans to release a French version.

Matt Cohler, Facebook's vice president of product management, said in a statement that Facebook counts more than a million active users in German-speaking countries. And according to Reuters, roughly 60 percent of Facebook's 66 million users live outside the United States.

Facebook members can now change languages in their account settings to German or Spanish. Any one who signs onto Facebook from a German-speaking country will automatically see the site in German.

Facebook will soon release the translation application to independent software developers to allow them to translate their Facebook programs into German as well, the company said.