Learn Estonian Online – Level 1

Description

The language of Estonia has a history of ancient song and rhymes, preserved down the ages verbally from generation to generation.

Spoken by just 1m people in Estonia, they have one of the biggest collections of folk songs in the world, with written records of about 133,000 folk songs. The most famous local singers throughout history were able to recall up to 20,000 rhymes, earning the title “Seto Mother of Songs.”

The Tallinn Song Festival Grounds in the capital hosts an extravaganza of music every five years, celebrating their regivärss, i.e. rhythmic verse and folk songs.

Did you know? Estonian is closely related to Finnish, but beware, there are many false friends that sound the same but mean something different!

Course Content

• Introduction
• Greetings of the Day
• How are you?
• More Greetings
• My name is…
• Please and thank you
• I don’t understand
• Yes/No
• Countries
• Countries Part 2
• Countries Part 3
• Numbers 0 – 10
• Numbers 11 – 20
• Where are you from?
• What is the telephone number?
• Give your contact details
• Where do you live?
• What do you do?
• Colors
• What’s this called?
• Fruits
• Vegetables
• Drinks
• What would you like to drink?
• General food
• In the kitchen
• The verb to be
• The verb to be – questions
• The verb to be – more questions