In most European countries you will find some locals
who can speak English. However people will often
appreciate your efforts to speak to them in their
own language, even if you use only a few words.
They may then be more inclined to help you. Listening
to the way that native speakers pronounce words
and copying the sounds that they make should make
it easier for others to understand what you say.
Most languages native to Europe are of Indo-European
origin and can be classified as Baltic (Latvian,
Lithuanian), Celtic (Breton, Cornish, Welsh, Irish
Gaelic, Scots Gaelic), Germanic (Danish, Icelandic,
Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, English, Flemish, Frisian,
German), Romance (Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese,
Romanian, Spanish), Slavic (Czech, Polish, Slovak,
Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian,
Serbian, Slovenian), Hellenic or Albanian. Non Indo-European
languages spoken on the continent include Uralic
(Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian) and Basque.
