Today i would like to for a small trip to a very beautiful part of our world, i would like to we visited europe. here is a map of europe. if you remember, europe is located in the north hemisphere. begin with these islands here. these are what we call the british isles. here is an easy question p what language do you speak in england? english, as in the state united states and in many other countries. just across the channel is france. which it is france's capital? pair of course! everybody knows. and what do you know about paris? all right, that's where the eiffel tower is! look here, this is a peninsula. in this peninsula we find spain and portugal, home of the beautiful spanish and portuguese languages. do you know someone who speaks spanish or portuguese? this boot shaped country is italy. and this one that looks like hand is greece. would not they like to live there and swimming in the mediterranean sea ? to me, yes! right here in the center is the small country of switzerland . a interesting feature of switzerland is that despite its small size it has three national languages: italian, french and german. in what other country is german spoken? in germany, of course, but also here in austria. there is another language that is very related with german. his name is dutch. do you know where dutch is spoken? yes, in holland. next to holland are belgium and luxembourg. in these two countries there is also talk french. to the north, here, we have what we call es candinavia scandinavia includes five countries: denmark, finland, sweden , norway and far, there, we have iceland. all countries we have spoken so far form western europe. in eastern europe are poland, czechoslovakia, hungary, bulgaria, romania and others countries. there is another important country in eastern europe. can you guess? it is russia, of course. part from rusi a is included in eastern europe and the rest in asia. it's a very big country. it extends from finland to japan. it is the largest country in the world. well, we're out of time. they like me our trip? so many countries, so many languages, so many cultures. according to the lecture, what are two reasons why paris is important?