Learning Estonian

[Renee Stillings | Alinga]

The Russian book is definitely better. I have tried learning from both and
was relieved to see that at least the methodology for teaching Estonian to
Russians had improved tremendously.  The books I tried using (for
self-learning and with an instructor) in English (including Tere! Estonia)
were extremely frustrating. That was a few years ago though and so hopefully
the situation has improved. I found it to be an interesting way to really
understand how much more developed the methodology of teaching the Russian
and Lithuanian languages to foreigners was in comparison.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Emily Klenin" <klenin at UCLA.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 12:44 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Learning Estonian


> Hi, on the basis of my experience, I don't recommend the Routledge
Estonian
> (it has lots of errors). There's a good course that I don't have a precise
> reference to, done in Australia, if anyone knows about it, but for me I
> would recommend the following: Tere, Eestimaa! (Hello, Estonia!),
published
> by Pangloss (it's "An audiovisual course in spoken Estonian") or, if you
> know Russian, Eesti Keele Opik (no diacritics given here, but the "O" has
a
> tilde), by Valmet, Uuspold, and Turu. Good luck!
>
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