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11.9.08

Oh lovely estonian language!

This time I want to share with you some thoughts on the Estonian language, just in case some fools out there would think about strudying it.
I have to thank Annika&Salme for lettin me know how lovely this language is :P.
First of all, let's say Estonian, together with Italian and Japanese,are the only languages you can read exactly as you write.Believe me, this *does not* makes things easier.
When people speak Estonian it does sound VERY odd to an outsider. One of my favorite sounds in Estonian is the letter "õ", which doesn't exist in any other language. They told me that in order to pronounce a word with this sound you have to pretend that you are vomiting... Even worse, some words have a double "õõ" in which case you have to vomit for a little longer since the double vowel doubles the length that you pronounce it. There are loads of single and double vowel sounds u don't have in English including ö, ü, ä, öö, üü, and ää. "öö" is even a real word - it means "night". In addition to the crazy vowels there are tons of dipthongs and tripthongs to keep your tongue flapping well into the night.
IF you're thinking about learning a foreign language, definitely go for French. Or Spanish. Or Chinese.

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