1. French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish Bonjour, Hallo, Ciao Здравствулте, Hola

2. Most Europeans are bilingual, meaning they speak two languages. Some are even multilingual!

3. European Languages Most languages in Europe belong to the Indo- European language family. Family Branches: Germanic: German and English. English is spoken in more areas of the world than any other language. Romance: French, Italian, and Spanish. These languages are based on Latin. Slavic: Russian is one example of Slavic languages.

4. Russian The Slavic languages, such as Russian use the Cyrillic alphabet which is based on ancient Greek letters.

5. Use your notes to complete the following. 1. This language is spoken in more areas of the world than any other._____________ 2. Based on Latin, this is the language of the “boot” country. _______ 3. This language uses an alphabet from the ancient Greeks. _________ 4. Across from England and the English Channel, these people speak- _________. 5. English came from this family. ______________ 6. Most European languages are from the _____________ family. 7. Russian is a type of __________ language. 8. Being able to speak two languages means you’re ___________. 9. __________ and isolation lead to Europe’s diverse languages. 10. This word means varied and different.