They're so efficient too!

Awesome grammar? [X]
Beautiful phonology? [X]

Hope I'll be able to speak to you guys in a year or two.
Any learning material recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

by Volo_TeX

5 comments

  1. If only that pic was right, then maybe even we would be able to speak it correctly.

  2. “Eesti keel”.. “learning material”.. you must be new here.

  3. Soovitan:
    ”Estonian Textbook” (Juhan Tuldava) – see raamat on parim mu jaoks
    ”E Nagu Eesti”, ”K Nagu Kihnu” + ”T Nagu Tallinn” (valikuline)
    ”Teach yourself Estonian”
    ”Colloquial Estonian” (Christopher Moseley)
    Colanguage ja Keeleklikk (veebilehed) ning Sõnaveeb (see on ka veebileht, kuigi on sõnastik – ei soovita ma eriti tõlkeid kasutada)

    Ja mõtle alati, et parem ongi iga päev kasvõi viis minutit õppida kui see, et õpid ühel päeval kolm tundi ja siis nädal aega ei õpi üldse, eesti keele õppimine on vaga ilus!

  4. Sorry but it is about 70% First four are still quite irregular, only last 10 are easy.

    But wait until you get to laadivaheldus and vältevaheldus. Then you understand the pain. And start accepting that you’ll never understand the difference between infinitives (-ma, -da)

  5. Learning them can be easier, mainly when to use, if you equate our suffixes with, lets say English prefixes. If multiple stuffs, add whose as presuffix. First 3 are irregular, depend on the word/don’t have a suffix. Middle six can have context based pre suffix for multiple stuffs

    Who – n/a
    Whose -de/-te
    Part of -sid/-id

    Onto -le
    Off of -lt
    On -l
    Into -sse
    In -s
    From -st

    Become -ks
    Towards -ni
    Being as -na
    Without -ta
    With -ga

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