About the Estonian language

[@pedroclavijo8043]

I learned Estonian as an exchange student, Estonians get really proud when foreigners learn it. Even though I always make some grammatical errors, I still love speaking it and speak it everyday

[@rist998]

Can confirm,at work everytime foreigners speak it i feel proud

[@raapyna8544]

An excellent reason to learn any small language!

[@moon7239]

Hi! I'm also exchange student and am on my exchange year in Estonia right now :) I can confirm that! Even in the first two months here when I barely spoke any Estonian, people would be still impressed and just happy that someone wants to learn their language.

[@alisonmoora7778]

As an estonian i can say that my heart melts when i hear that someone is trying to learn our impossible language. Seeing this comment made my day. :')

[@ruthenianthruth]

I would rather say: Estonians like it when you try to learn and speak this language, but get very suspicious and cold when you really start to speak it. People start to think that you want to stay here forever and take their land from them.

[@Joonaskaa]

It took me 11 years of schooling... in Estonia... as an Estonian... to get my grammar correct - after my finals I really stopped trying :D

[@JuLingo]

what a language 🤣

[@thescarytransperson]

thats the magic of uralic languages

[@coobalt]

I agree. I myself am an estonian too ....and estonian is my mother tongue .......and I am probably not a stupidest person on earth .....I am studying at masters degree in university ....BUT still ....even I sometimes have doubts whether something I say or write is grammatically correct. Estonian language is abnormally and hysterically difficult ;) ............

[@p2seline]

I know...so many rules, then exceptions, and exceptions have exceptions :)

[@stanislavfilippov9864]

@@JuLingo I've been born in Tartu and still to this day don't know it greatly

[@WMfin]

Love from Finland. Estonia and Finland are brothers both historically and by language. Speaking of Finland and languages, Tolkien based his Quenya, language of the High Elves in Finnish :) As a huge Tolkien nerd I just love that! He loved Kalevala and read it IN FINNISH by using dictionary. He said that Finnish is like a good wine for him... Sorry, got carried away!

[@dreamerqueennotunderthemachine]

That is so cool. Finnish is such a cool language ... It is definitely a language of the elves. I went to Finland when I was 10, as a Christmas tour with my family in order to celebrate the land of Santa Claus, and I remember the pride in that. I crafted these two elf dolls modeled after Nimble and Quick, and I left them in a doll museum there I wonder if they're still there. I also remember eating really yummy and interesting food especially the cloud berries and the reindeer 😁

[@rondormees4608]

Hey Finland, thanks for helping us during the war😃

[@hannes0000]

Wow that's cool fact i did not know, that's why i wondered why everybody said that these languages sound elven or elvish

[@SionTJobbins]

Estonian (and Finnish) is such a beautiful sounding language. Sounds so light and clear, like tip-toeing across the speech.

[@oferzilberman5049]

But reading it is a nightmare above all earth

[@ivanmonahhov2314]

And then mitmene osastav rolls in.

[@-nvmanyhow1436]

@@ivanmonahhov2314 *mitmuse osastav. Don't worry, even we Estonians sometimes get confused by our own grammar

[@pjp7316]

@@ivanmonahhov2314 miks see raske on? Lihtsalt mõtle küsisõnade peale (mida? keda?), kerge.

[@a.balazs4413]

I am just a simple Hungarian, if I see Estonian or Finnish. I like.

[@sagirozzo720]

Mi like, that, anshwa

[@flavio-viana-gomide]

You speak one of the hardest languages on Earth. You can master as many as you want because the rest will be easier than yours.

[@stephenmorley1991]

It is beautiful to listen to in spoken and song form. It's also impressive how easily Estonians pick up and speak other languages.

[@takuan71]

Well, after you master Estonian any other language is a breeze (colloquially: kökimöki)))

[@SatumainenOlento]

@@takuan71 Haahhhaaaa 😂

[@you-know-who9023]

Could not agree more 😀

[@schotsevlaanderen]

I met a beautiful Estonian lady who spoke not a word of English. She came to visit me twice and by the end of her second visit she could converse very acceptably in English.

[@endouceurendouceur318]

Our group of Moldavian students traveled to Tartu by tourist bus from Tallinn during winter vacations in February 1974. I will never forget an old guide/professor Leesment so friendly, showing us proudly the famous University of Tartu. And the lunch somewhere - a Swedish table - was delicious ! Now I like also Saku beer !Unforgettable life lasting memories/trip to Estonia ! And I read the book -"Bye, yellow cat" by Mati Unt.Warm Greetings from Kishinău/Moldavia

[@ihuliige6776]

What makes the Estonian language even more melodic is that, being an agglutinative language, the word order in a sentence can be nearly random. The normal sentence structure is S-V-O, but it can be easily switched around for different emphasis or poetic purposes. For example, a sentence like "ma läksin sõbraga poodi" ("I went to the store with a friend") could just as well be written "poodi läksin ma sõbraga" or "sõbraga ma läksin poodi" or "läksin sõbraga poodi ma", and because it's clear from the conjugation what the subject, object and other sentence parts are, it would only be slightly strange.

[@JuLingo]

Ihu Liige that’s an awesome remark! How come I didn’t include it in the video??? 🙉 thank you!

[@kittennoodlesyar8490]

m8, Estonian native here, the word order is only flexible because the case system removes some need for grammar, but you will still need grammar in a sentence like "karud tapsid mehed". Something like German's case system actually removes much need for grammar in many cases because it marks for subject, object, environment, etc.

[@bobertjones2300]

@Dylan Daley Ancient migration of people from Central Asia. Estonian DNA must be interesting.

[@AmareshJoshi]

cool. is "läksin" the verb (go/went)? can you put it at the end? like "sõbraga poodi ma läksin". and does the subject ("ma"?) always have to be next to the verb ("ma läksin" or "läksin ma")?

[@kittennoodlesyar8490]

@@AmareshJoshi You can the verb anywhere, BUT the subject work "ma" will sound clunky if it is placed at the end. People will still totally understand you if you say "läksin poodi sõbraga ma", it just sounds strange, but something like "sõbraga ma poodi läksin" is fine.

[@Gaming4Justice]

I always get triggered when over 800 years of our history gets ignored and the Soviet Union is the only thing that matters.

[@richardkeler9170]

Viking time yes. But soviet union and nazi shet was a big event and a lot happend . In vikings time or idk there was nothing happening.

[@richardkeler9170]

It's not only soviet union It's other countries as well

[@raapyna8544]

@@richardkeler9170 "There was nothing happening" is another way to say that it was ignored in history lessons. If we do that we are basically erasing history.

[@raapyna8544]

@dota vinkz I want to let you know that 'mongoloid' and 'caucasoid' are outdated nowadays. Scientists don't want to use race classifications for people because they are always abused for hierarchical comparisons and racist ideologies. Indeed people are different, but we are all equal (worth and potential). If language can help with our equality, it's good. But that's very interesting information you share about the origin history of Estonian people. 11 000 years ago European people would not have looked like they do today. There's been research that shows that a man in the British islands 10 000 years ago was very dark-skinned with blue eyes. Information like this challenges our understanding of 'races' and their justification.

[@MRRED7777]

well welcome to ENSV

[@mazettas]

Thank you for creating this lovely video. I found a great amount of new information. Love, from a Greek in Estonia. 🇬🇷 ♥️🇪🇪

[@markopalikko6986]

Born in Finland, now Canadian, the first time I heard Estonian i was blown away. I thought it was Finnish. It sounds so much like I remember Finnish was in the 70's. Finnish is so much harder (sounding) than the Finnish i grew up with, maybe i just grew up with the Helsinki dialect.

[@mikahamari5994]

I think that Finnish language has not changed so much, but your perception of it has. But the atmosphere in Finland has become much colder. People here are made of stone, and it is reflected in the way how they speak. I hope that our beloved brothers and sisters in Estonia will retain their warmth and love of culture. PS. It is interesting perception, that people in Helsinki have spoken softly. I am native speaker of Oulu dialect, and for my ear Savo dialects are softer than Western dialects. It is partly because of intonation and partly because, as in Oulu dialect, there are "added" consonants and vowels (tullee talavi) and not "shortened" forms (täs talos).

[@axxa42069]

People always say i speak finnish its annoying

[@peterl5804]

Finnish derived out of Estonian

[@veikko0o0o0o0]

@@peterl5804 Nope.

[@findorbed]

@@peterl5804 Other way around

[@nikolaikorobeinik119]

Hi, Estonian here. Aavik's legacy is unprecedented in the world. Imagine one smart guy starts spewing out words that the whole nation ends up using years later. These are really common words that are used in everyday conversation and they have the impression that they have always been there. I think this is crazy.

[@dmitrykazakov2829]

Reviving a language takes efforts of some few great people. History always finds them when necessary. There were other examples like in the case of the Hebrew language. (It is sad that other Uralic languages from there region are becoming extinct. Russia does nothing to support them)

[@sillandrix]

We have coscu in Argentina few years ago started modifying words of Spanish and now all youngsters are speaking like that 🫠

[@NightBane345]

Have a very good friend in Estonia, and did visit 2 times Eesti, first time it sounded like a mixture of Finnish and Russian to me, but when I went on second visit. I stayed at her families home, and heard it spoken longer and more proper, not just on ordering food or taxi. And I could hear the difference in it, still hard to notice massive difference but it was there, and Estonian is actually a very good sounding language in my opinion/thoughts, it deserves to be more recognised, as a language, but also as its own country, not be linked to Russia. For me, Eesti and all its people are Scandinavian brethren, and would love for them to be viewed as such, among the bigger countries

[@Livoirienyvoitrien]

Julie, you and your channel are my early Sunday morning comfort. Thank you, again. Love, peace, and harmony for all!

[@raavieu]

I'm a proud learner of this beautiful language. Armastan Eesti ! Love from Punjab, India !

[@saapatald]

Awhhh🥺! (Though it would be more correct to say "Armastan Eestit" or "Armastan sind, Eesti" (love you, Estonia!)) And good luck with learining!❤️🥰

[@gabrielverilaskja9316]

Hi. I Love India! I , am proud learner Tabla drums and Sikhi. Waheguru. ... Aga elan eestis ja armastan seda maad :)

[@raavieu]

Olen Sikh, elan eestis aga praegu ma olen Punjabis. Ilm on nii hea !!

[@KarelKannel]

@@raavieu Just praegu läks ilm Eestis väga külmaks, -20 kraadi külma...

[@raavieu]

@@KarelKannel jah ! Nägin pilte . Winter wonderland ! Väga ilus !

[@lroke2947]

This was one of the best briefs on Estonian that I've come across. Thank you.

[@derhamcohomology]

My favourite Estonian word is "öö".

[@DixieBanjo]

Night

[@fryktenogmennesket]

And mine is töö

[@DixieBanjo]

@Mängu Asi Tööõnnetus - Work accident.

[@thescarytransperson]

Kuuuurija a tv show of some sorts

[@aleksanderkessel3525]

@@DixieBanjo Right.

[@519djw6]

I *love* your language videos! And, by the way, I used to teach English in Finland, and my students once debated whether Finnish had 16 or "only" 15 grammatical cases!

[@dimascherbak3173]

I’ve been waiting for the video about the Estonian language!

[@JuLingo]

You're welcome 😉

[@imanofaction]

My favourite odd word is "jäääär" consisting of words "jää" - meaning ice and "äär" - meaning edge... so edge of ice

[@raapyna8544]

In Finnish we would write that 'jää-ääri' for clarity, though we don't use such a word - it's very poetic though!

[@kekko4710]

Kuuuuria lol

[@nel2670]

'asjaajaja' is fun too, looks like keyboard smashing

[@imanofaction]

@@nel2670 like spanish laugh of some kind

[@kekko4710]

@@nel2670 me when I agree on something funny

[@bergitakogermann2015]

I’m estonian and wanted to correct that the word “karbisse” is incorrect, we say “karpi” It’s one of the exception words so it is a bad example.

[@tulilind2783]

"Karbisse" is not incorrect, it is just never used - "karpi" is the preferred form. The word falls under type 21: www.eki.ee/dict/ekss/tyypsonad.html#tp21

[@PsychoCalamander]

@@tulilind2783 Eh? Esimest korda kuulen :D

[@mihkel86]

Yeah, its not Hip-Hoppariks, its Hippariks-Hoppariks.

[@hipe8987]

@@tulilind2783 yeah you're right, theyre both correct but karpi is a lot more common and more comfortable to say

[@EstoniaANTICOMMUNIST]

Või nagu majja või majasse. Inimestel on loogiliselt omadus kasutada lühemaid variante.

[@doc032848]

This presentation was very enjoyable. I have known Estonians and found them to be very pleasant. So Juli's video is very accurate. Estonian is not easy. But anything worth knowing is never easy anyway. I like her own enjoyment of what she is teaching. It all gives her videos a charm that makes me want to learn.

[@SatumainenOlento]

This was extremely well made video! Proper background research made! WOW! I wish your channel all the best!!! And thank you!!! 💗💗💗 (Also, as a Finn it was cool to see how ancient Estonian's called themselves as Maarahvas = Earth folk (roughly in English), because that is a Finnish word and totally understable. Beautiful too see so literal evidence of our common roots!)

[@taekatanahu635]

I mean Finnish and Estonian are nearly mutually intelligible and grammatically almost the same. I don't think there is need for any more 'proof' than that.

[@jyrkilehtinen9886]

Actually "maarahvas" is "country people". I would guess

[@chaoscontrolsok]

Strange! Hungarians still call them selfs "Magyar", and Hungary is "Magyarország"...

[@mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112]

@@taekatanahu635 "I mean Finnish and Estonian are nearly mutually intelligible and grammatically almost the same. I don't think there is need for any more 'proof' than that." - only the basics. More elaborate texts: in no way. For example Dutch and German are way closer to each other.

[@taekatanahu635]

@@iStrong113 Depends on the person. If it is written and there is enough context I can understand Estonian fairly well with some effort. When spoken not so much simply because there is not enough time to figure out the meaning if you don't immediately understand something. But honestly some Finns are just dense and can't even understand non-standard Finnish. However here in Savonian region most of my friends seem to understand Estonian to about the same extent as I do, but that might be because people are more accustomed to read between the lines and have more intuitive understanding of sound changes that may occur in languages. Also the richer your vocabulary the more you have to work with. Not only Finnish but Indo-European languages such as Swedish, German or even English.

[@henri372]

I watched both the Estonian and Latvian language video and it's Intresting that the historic facts about Latvia are more correct than in the Estonian case - which is funny because the facts are basically the same as for Latvia. For example - the estonian and latvian regions were ruled by baltic germans for 700 years which left its imprint on the language and psyche (Lutheran church, work ethic, grammar, etc). They were both under Danish, Swedish, Russian, Polish and German control in various periods until 1918 when both republics were created. Were both annexed by Soviet Union at the same time in 1940. They are both called the singing nations, have big singing festivals with thousands of singers (designed after the Baltic German choral tradition) and poetry archives collected from 18th-19th century.

[@renatomorello4318]

As always, an excellent video! You are the best! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️

[@JuLingo]

Thank you so much!

[@lagritsalammas]

Really lovely video, thanks. To all the Estonians and other knowledgeable people watching - where the heck was the photograph at 6:47 taken? It's clearly the Estonian flag and the other flag has the word 'Elagu' (Long live!) on it, but the buildings in the background nor the tram posts look like nothing we ever had in Tallinn, not even before the destruction of WW2. Does anyone know?

[@kristjanpaluoja6454]

It seems to be St Petersburg - people are walking clearly across the bridge and this type of building is nowhere to be found in Estonia for sure. Background shops seem to have Russian signs as well.

[@PerfectBrEAThER]

Peterburi. search "Demonstration of Estonians in Petrograd on 8 April 1917".

[@mirjamleesalu5188]

Thank you so much for making a video about Estonian! It was well-made and very aesthetic, but as a linguistics nerd I do want to point out a couple things. 2:53 that's not what õ sounds like, but I understand you're not a native speaker, so it's hard to demonstrate it authentically. Similar vowels exist in Russian "ы", Korean "으" and definitely some more languages that I haven't learnt about. 5:28 the actual case endings are -sse and -ni. We add everything to the end of the second case "karp: karbi -> karbi+sse". In the word "jõuludeni" the -de in front of -ni signifies plural so "jõulu+d: jõulu+de -> jõulude+ni". Christmas is plural in Estonian, but if you'd use singular "jõuluni" then people would still understand you, it would just sound more like conversational / spoken language.

[@thomashattey8037]

Very interesting. Learned a lot about this cryptic language. Love the sampling - you can really hear the vocalic sound of the language.

[@leaturk11]

I'm from the UK and married to an Estonian girl for over 10 years, I must admit I struggle a little learning the language (the problem is that everyone in Est speaks English so you get lazy), I know 100's of Estonian words but cant put them together to make a sentence, that being said I've come to love Estonia and I truly consider it my joint home.

[@phantomendgamer]

That's really cool!! I'm from the UK too and trying to learn Estonian but struggling really hard xD Love Estonia though!

[@thomaskember4628]

"No sex and no future" could be said about English which long ago lost gender for nouns and uses auxiliary verbs, will or shall, to indicate the future tense and not inflections like others languages.

[@raapyna8544]

Latin languages are the only ones that I know to do this.

[@musematt]

Estonian uses neither, so it's more accurate for Estonian rather than English.

[@lroke2947]

Then again, Estonian makes no distinction between he and she and has no equivalent to will or shall.

[@georgiancrossroads]

It seems to be the opposite of Georgian with it's nightmarish vowel clusters. And I hear what to my ears sounds like a bit of a Scandinavian lilt in the speech rhythms. Thanks again Julie. You only have a few languages left to go... before you get to .01% of the total. Keep going. (Technical note: I'm sure you realize that your voice was scratchy sounding. That's because the record volume was too high. Sometimes these things get accidentally changed without us being aware of it. A good practice is to always check the record levels before beginning.)

[@JuLingo]

Haha yeah that's an endless source for language ideas 😄 sound quality is a catastrophe 🙈 for this video I travelled abroad and I forgot my microphone adaptor so I had to make it with what I had and... yeah, something went wrong 😅

[@maverickangel-iq5xd]

I just opened a box I can’t close . Started learning language. I always loved language and how it expresses through spirit . I’m Hungarian n Italian American born but grew up around a lot of Puerto Rican , Italian or latin flavor . Growing up in Nj Essex county . It was very multi cultural. Witnessing how language expresses thru spirit n mind is fascinating to me. Great video appreciate ya

[@SilverSpur1]

I am Hungarian, I didn't knew we have 18 cases, we just learned 5. We also have Ö, ö, Ő, ő, and Ü, ü letters, it's so easy for me to pronounce them. Our "closest relative" mansi sounds perfectly intelligible, i can understand it, after more than 1200 years separate from us. So mansi are the other Hungarians on the eastern Urals, they just stayed home, did not wander to west.

[@markcarey8426]

Brilliant. It would be nice to hear more people speaking the language. Maybe a sentence which we understand and then someone saying it. The little bit in this vid was great, that girl with the sunglasses, an insight (aurally) into the language. Great vids. Well done. Impressive research and succinct delivery.

[@JuLingo]

I noted your suggestion ☺️ And thank you!

[@coobalt]

if you just want to listen how estonian sounds ....then i would suggest that you listen estonian songs ..... for example .... (i just randomly picked some estonian songs i personally love) .... kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXO1YZmqqtWfhKc&ab_channel=eestimusafann kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHfPhpuMrtVjmaM&ab_channel=0ferda0 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gafCqY2mZ8Scea8&ab_channel=NaisedK%C3%B6%C3%B6gis kzbin.info/www/bejne/boHMnYKEepd5oKM&ab_channel=drg8 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eH-ri5abZrl2l5o&ab_channel=AnsambelGreip kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKTcqZ9nj553l6c&ab_channel=HelenAdamson i know .......it's a pretty feminine list ;) .... if you want something more masculine then maybe ........ kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoS0laGsr7treac&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest but if you want to understand what is said ....i suggest estonian comedy show "tujurikkuja" (just search for "tujurikkuja") ....i believe most of the clips have subtitles and also ....it's just an incredibly funny show :) .... AND by the way ....i think i found a video that you might be interested in (especially the second part of the video ..........maybe a bit too religious approach but still ....it gives the idea) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHeuaKKpeq11a7M&ab_channel=ILoveLanguages%21

[@markcarey8426]

@@coobalt Oh yeah, thanks. Happy new year

[@coobalt]

@@markcarey8426 happy new year to you also :) ....

[@coobalt]

one more suggestion ....that jumped to my mind right now. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2OYgYSBjtmNl7c&ab_channel=juulip6rnikas estonian (language) is often described as sounding elvish or/and shamanistic ......i think that song has both .... whether it is or not ....i still totally love this song ....it is just so hypnotic :) ....

[@mdlunasofficial7478]

Thank you for your hard work 💐

[@JuLingo]

Thank you for your support!

[@jaanushiiemae2164]

Estonia was under more foreign rulers. Sometimes northern half was under one ruler and the southern under another. To mentioned German(several Ordens and Baltic Barons) and the Russian Empire, you could add also Danmark (The first foreign ruler of Northern Estonia), Sweden, and Poland or Rzeczpospolita (ruled southern half of Estonia). To preserve the language when being 750 years under foreign occupation was a task that seems impossible especially when the number of Estonians was dramatically reduced after the Livonian war and the Great Northern War and many plagues in 16-18 century.

[@oferzilberman5049]

When my dad downloads subtitles for a movie or a tv series before he compiles it, It always comes out with weird letters and it looks like gibberish. Now I understand it's just estonian.

[@akostarkanyi825]

I am Hungarian. Years ago I was a participant of a scientific conference in Helsinki, Finland. I got acquainted with another researcher there, an Estonian woman. I have heard about our languages - Hungarian and Estonian - having some ancient relationship. So I asked her what "eye" is in Estonian. It is 'silm' she said. In Hungarian it is 'szem' pronounced as sem. Silm - sem. And what is "mouth"? It is 'suu' she said. In Hungarian it is 'száj' pronounced as suy. Suu - suy. Well, we have some quite similar words inspite of the long time the two languages have been departed. And I don't suggest that anyone bother grammatical "cases" if he or she wants to learn Hungarian - or Estonian. For example "in the fish" is "a halban" in Hungarian where the = a , fish = hal and in = -ban. Yes, we put prepositons at the end of the word and "glue" to it. That is how we say it and that is all that simple. You cannot get anything plus by learning the name of this "grammatical case" - you just feel overburdened by unnecessarily learning that and then believing "how difficult a language is this".

[@059metafrast]

It is good to call them cases and case endings, because we have also postpositions, those 'prepositions' coming after the word, written separately. Good example of ancient relations between Hungarian and Estonian is proverb Kéz kezet mos. In Southern Estonian it would be Käsi kätt mõseb. Roots of the words are recognizable.

[@rahuldhargalkar]

Estonian is so cool! Heard they're really lovely people :)

[@JuLingo]

yeah super interesting 👍

[@kittennoodlesyar8490]

Don't come here, you have been warned

[@steveboy7302]

Yes but Indians won't listen they want to migrate to every single country and build up there own communities

[@martinantonov9380]

@@kittennoodlesyar8490 but what if I’m already here ?

[@kittennoodlesyar8490]

@@martinantonov9380 juba liiga hilja

[@Timurlane100]

I really love the way you approach other languages. You are the best!!!!!

[@lamissdanyopp5136]

I love your channel!

[@JuLingo]

Thank you so much!

[@corinna007]

Now you should do one on Finnish. 😁 I've been learning it for the past 5 1/2 years and it's fascinating.

[@JuLingo]

I will for sure!

[@akostarkanyi825]

@Dylan Daley Jó tanulást, Dylan!

[@eksiarvamus]

Cool video. Nice to find the Estonian dialect map and the word root pie chart that I have made. ;)

[@JuLingo]

You made it? These are awesome 👏🏻 Thank you for your work!

[@eksiarvamus]

@@JuLingo Yep, I did, a few years ago.

[@tashuntka]

As always, a great video...👍🏻🫶👍🏻

[@talideon]

I remember a Finn jokingly describing Estonian as Finnish with tonsillitis.

[@zank2068]

and Finnish is just drunk Estonian

[@dvlrnr]

Estonian is Hobbit Finnish

[@Joonaskaa]

and when we get drunk together we speak Finstonian - everybody understands and it has no rules

[@SatumainenOlento]

@@Joonaskaa Hahahhaa The Best! 😁

[@kirkkek]

@@Joonaskaa I like this description best lol

[@Nelson_504]

4:18 OMG. Urban Symphony 👏 I love "Rändajad". I still know (and still try to sing along to😅❤) the Estonian lyrics of that song to this day!!!!!!! I'm from Honduras 🇭🇳 (Central America) but I grew up watching Eurovision on Spanish cable TV channels. Estonian is such a different language compared to mine, Spanish and English, but I find it so exotic and intriguing. It suits perfectly with the mystical vibe that the music arrangement in Urban Symphony's "Rändajad" tries to create. I watch Eesti Laul every year, and I'm always amazed by the amazing creativity in Estonia🇪🇪 👏.

[@glenmartin2437]

Thank you. I have Hungarian, Latvian and Polish relatives. An interesting language.

[@Steven_2023-h4v]

These are the flags of the languages that I would like to learn or study. 🇷🇺🇺🇦🇩🇪🇮🇹🇷🇴🇫🇷🇪🇸🇵🇹🇫🇮🇬🇷🇪🇪🇦🇱🇳🇱🇭🇺🇵🇱🇨🇿🇧🇬🇸🇪🇮🇪🇷🇸🇱🇻🇱🇹🇳🇴🇮🇸🇪🇸. Russian, Ukrainian, German, Italian, Romanian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish, Greek, Estonian, Albanian, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, Swedish, Irish Gaelic, Serbian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Icelandic, Catalan.

[@Nehauon]

Learn the ones that are related to others first, then tackle those later and it will be easier

[@kullulillu]

Love from Estonia! 🇪🇪

[@arvoluik5775]

I came to CANADA as a refugee in 1948 , only 8 years old and could only speak Estonian , German and the words learned from the American soldiers. Chocolate, thank you and #### off. Thank you for a better understanding of my mother language , even though our family uses English exclusively. A superb video. ❤🇪🇪

[@kulnokaiklem]

Estonia the Baltic Tiger , Bald and Bankrupt Eastonia , Daily Bald The trip to the Lighthouse Paldiski , Offseason The islands of Estonia Vladimir Gavrilov - these are good documentaries about Estonia in YuuTuube.

[@emikoussi14]

Unfortunately Hungarian - my mother tongue - is in another branch of the Uralic language-tree than Estonian and Finnish. While people of Eesti and Finland can understand each other, we Hungarians do not understand a word of these two languages :( The only inscription I understood in Tallin was "muusikakool", because music is "muzsika" and school is "iskola" in Hungarian.

[@mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112]

Nope, we (Estonian / Finnish speakers) can't really understand each other. We only understand basic stuff (asking for a glass of water / the price of something, for example) and even that with a lot of possible misunderstanding because of the "false friends". It's almost impossible to understand more elaborate texts - in general, all we can do is guessing what it's all about (what the context is).

[@mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112]

There are Finno-Ugric languages far closer to Finnish than Estonian. For example, I can understand Votic ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votic_language ) songs far(!) better than Estonian ones because, apart from tons of loanwords from Russian / Estonian / German / whatever, it still resembles Finnish a lot more. The Institute of the Estonian Language, folklore.ee, has an online archive of such Votic songs at www.folklore.ee/pubte/eraamat/vadjaisuri/en/index - it’s certainly worth checking out for any Finnish speaker and trying to understand the texts. Note that I’ve also uploaded a unique LP, sung in Votic, to kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKfanIiFYsuhqLM (side A) and kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKWagIqvbcqdask (side B). They contain the same songs as the Institute version but with translations of the songs’ titles into three languages, one of them being English.

[@saapatald]

I have heard that word "Kutsu" exist in Hungarian too. (In Estonian it's like a cute version of dog (koer) even though "kutsu" is way older word than "koer")

[@emikoussi14]

@@saapatald Kutsu does not exist, but "kutyus" does. This is in fact the cute version of "kutya" (dog). Interesting that officially (I mean, in legal text for example) dog is "eb", but people never use this word in everyday conversations. They use "kutya" or "kutyus".

[@amjan]

@@mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112 Blah blah blah, that's enough to say they can understand each other. If they understood each other 100% it wouldnt be called languages.

[@juliesettle3443]

Thank you - clear and friendly teaching approach.

[@Raventooth]

Informative as usual! Thank you

[@JuLingo]

Glad you liked it!

[@omenoid]

Knowing Finnish gives indeed a pretty good head start, as we can understand 40-70% without prior knowledge.

[@andrej.mentel]

This is exactly what I wanted to ask - whether the Finns understand Estonian without learning. Because phonetically, it seems me to be VERY similar; however, I don't speak any of these languages, so it could be just on the surface level.

[@omenoid]

@@andrej.mentel It's not possible to understand very well without learning, save very simple constructions. When I first went to Estonia (I was 13 years old), we were however able to communicate with our host family in a very basic level. Now that I've had some more exposure with Estonian, I'm able to read e.g. Estonian wikipedia quite easily - so it's possible to learn the other language without formal studying but with just being exposed to it. The same process happened in the 80's, when Estonians watched to the Finnish TV, they just learned by watching and listening.

[@andrej.mentel]

@@omenoid thanks, well, so it is pretty similar to the relations between Slovak (my own language) and Polish. There are many people in the North Slovakia who understand Polish quite well simply because of the exposition - TV, shopping, personal contacts, etc. - but without this experience, it can be rather difficult.

[@omenoid]

@@andrej.mentel Yes, it's basically the same.

[@mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112]

@@omenoid BTW, I’ve just found this page: cooljugator.com/ee Of the common Estonian verbs, I can understand (without explicitly/formally learning them) probably 60% of them. Of course, there are completely “false friends” (words that mean something completely different or at least can’t be meaningfully used in the other language) even in this small basic list - for example, I thought “tarvitama” is “to need” (“tarvita” in Finnish), but it’s “to eat” in Estonian.

[@ahscreation4787]

Knowledgeable video Keep going ❤

[@JuLingo]

Thanks a lot 😊

[@SevenThunderful]

My great grandmother came from the Baltics and she eventually ended up speaking 5 languages. Estonian, Russian, French, English and Danish. She probably knew some Chinese too due to her refugee status.

[@athulanand4902]

Wow. That language sounds beautiful. Your vedios have great content👍

[@JuLingo]

Thank you so much 🤗

[@KingPaulW]

Like all your videos! Keep up the great work!

[@wa_daxm162]

Good to know some people know us Estonias✨

[@jakubkundzik3367]

Great video, one of many videos of yours I enjoy. Just to add a little more details: not only Germans and Russians ruled over Estonia, but Swedes too. Southern parts of modern day Estonia were briefly conquered by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as well. Best wishes!

[@mihkel86]

There was a time in history when only 30000 estonian speaking human beings were alive. Think about that... "There is at least one estonian in every port in the world" - Hemingway

[@believeinpeace]

Thanks!

[@nikoladd]

JuLingo: "Vowels do have a place in the Estonian language" Polish: WTF are vowels?

[@taekatanahu635]

Georgian: WTF r vwls?

[@monstrositizen]

Thank u for uploading this video....I really need it

[@louai009]

I'm Algerian and I'm trying to know more about this cool country (Algeria is your head's crown bro 🙂✋🏻)

[@cemyildiz7842]

Estonian sounds like moderner than Finnish, in Finnish, words sound more longer and non-pratical :) And for native Turkish speakers, the letter õ sounds almost same with Turkish ı. There is no vowel harmony in Estonian language but in Võru diaclect, the vowel harmony works in the same way as in Turkish. It is a deep topic to decide if Võru has a separated language or it is a dialect of Estonian.

[@anfisanechehova477]

Jäääär, welcome to Estonia :)

[@jakemarcus9999]

Estonia is such a lovely language. Best regards from the other side of the gulf 👋

[@eddykohlmann471]

Great that you mention the smaller Uralic languages. Not many people pay attention to that. They're very endangered.

[@JuLingo]

agree 👍 smaller languages are always worth mentioning

[@eddykohlmann471]

@@JuLingo have you heard of Livonian? It was spoken in Latvia. There's still people interested in it. Though not many.

[@mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112]

@@eddykohlmann471 BTW, if you’re interested in more info on Livonian, I have a Livonian LP on my channel: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJynknSZm7Jpbsk, kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWLVd2yDp8p4qNk (and those of three other “small” Finno-Ugric languages: Lappish, Ersa-Mordvinian, Votic-Izhorian ) The cover of these LP’s have a LOT of info (in addition to Estonian and, with 3 LP’s, Russian, also in English) on these cultures / languages.

[@xosga1968]

All your videos are great, thank u !!!

[@siimtulev1759]

5:30 "karbisse" is wrong. "karpi" is right. Its because "Karp" ended without vowel, so you just put "i" to the end. If you take for example "auto" then it would be "autosse".

[@JuLingo]

Thank you for the correction!

[@Djsillu22]

@@JuLingo not true, -sse suffix is always correct, although usually swapped with a shorter version example: "into a pool" both "basseinisse" and "basseini" are grammatically correct, although not once in my lifetime i've seen somebody use the first version

[@mariannvolkonski]

@@JuLingo You were correct. It is kind of true that the short illative forms are more often used, especially in spoken language, but the long illative forms are correct and indeed have their place, mostly in literary grammar, but also for certain words where the long illative is actually preferred. Besides that, I happen to use the less frequent forms in spoken language too, just for the beauty of the language. Because.. why not? :) Now quoting an example to illustrate that the long illatives are not that rare: “In general, the long illative is preferred with third-degree words without gradation (e.g. bussipeatusesse instead of bussipeatusse ‘bus stop’), third-degree ne- and s-final words (e.g. ajaloolisesse rather than ajaloolisse ‘historical’), government structures (e.g. loosse suhtuma insead of lukku suhtuma ‘to relate to a story’) and proper names (e.g. Tartusse instead of Tartu).” There is a whole dissertation about that: dspace.ut.ee/handle/10062/64787

[@traphex]

Just discovered your channel, it's fantastic.

[@IgorTraveller]

כל הכבוד יוליה! היה ממש מעניין! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@JuLingo]

תודה 😁

[@mehmetkurtkaya3106]

İt sounds like a very nice language. Very melodic as you said. İ did not this language ör vowels can make a language melodic. Thank you Julie you make great videos.

[@sallehmohamad8271]

ME From 🇲🇾 MALAYSiA... Likes Your Language... Hopefully To Visit ESTONiA Year 2021..💏

[@mihkel86]

Welcome - teretulemast

[@Balintrebeka]

Love these videos!! Can't wait for the Hungarian one :)

[@Burvedys]

I used to use this expression of "in Estonia, no sex and no future" when actually teaching English. Because nouns are also genderless (a cat might be a Tom or a pussy... no pun intended) and so you may use present tense for future (a train arrives at five o'clock; when now it's two only). So there is nothing very extraordinary although many still wonder how Estonians are able to speak like that. :)

[@akostarkanyi825]

Hungarian nouns are genderless, too. (Not like Gernan where "the woman" - das Weib - is not feminine but neutral... And we also often use present tense when we mean future tense (although we have grammatical way to emphasize future).

[@Burvedys]

@@akostarkanyi825 : funny though, but Hungarian is the same language group as Finnish and Estonian. :)

[@user-pb2kg1ng4g]

A love of languages is a love of humanity. What a wonderful video by such a charming. lovely and beautiful woman.

[@rogertemple7193]

"as an American especially from the state of Oklahoma I got influenced to Estonia by the contemporary music especially pop and rock music, I have been listening to Eesti language through the music and I can understand the language better when they sing, but when they talk it is to fast and hard to keep up with it, but still learning but slowly,thanks."-🤔🌐🌏🌍🌎🌐..

[@americanninny4918]

We can talking very quicly to, veery quicly,and noone who are not estonian cant understand where is start and finish, talk is only long word

[@caylandia]

Nice and informative video! Just got acquainted with this channel and love it already

[@mikkataas8989]

Eesti! Eesti! Eesti!

[@asyncasync]

"Väsimatus" actually refers to the lack of tiredness or even the state of not being able to get tried. Also this huge word does not necessarily state that the birthday party took place the whole week, but only that we are referring to the same week in which the birthday party took place. It is a bit ambiguous though. So "sünnpäevanädalalõpupeopärastlõunaväsimatus" refers to the lack of tiredness felt during the afternoon on a day at the end of the week in which a birthday part took place. lol

[@xarastewartmusic]

Thank you Julie! :)

[@JuLingo]

You are so welcome!

[@ivosarak959]

There were close relatives between Estonians and Latvians - Livonians, whose we managed to get rid of by the joint force of Latvians or by more complex formula under Germano and Russiano overlords...

[@Alex_Alx]

You pronounced Õ a little bit wrong. it's more like Russian Ы

[@Aleksandr017]

You can say she has Saaremaa pronounciation 😀😀

[@johnnorthtribe]

I have been to Estonia regularly since 1993. I know some bit of Estonian as well, but the letter "õ" I could never learn to pronounce. The same with Russian "Ы". We have a sound in Swedish as well that foreigners can not pronounce. Swedish letter "u". It sounds almost like "õ".

[@Alex_Alx]

@@johnnorthtribe I bet I can pronounce any letter. It's just about listening and concentrating well enough

[@johnnorthtribe]

@@Alex_Alx I bet you can not, since these sounds are extremly local. 😀

[@SihvkadPlussJalka]

@@Alex_Alx Actually, you might not. There was a study on finnish and estonians where they listened õ and ö sounds. If they heard a sequence, lets say ööööööõöööö, a specific brainwave appears in estonians but not in finnish brains. Look more: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9009189/

[@davidbates8295]

Thanks for this informative video. It brought back many good memories from my trip there with little knowledge of the language.

[@GarfieldRex]

So Estonians are actually the Maarahvas , sounds Indian to me, glad they adopted the Roman Aestii. Anyway, always awesome to see these "foreign" languages in a sea of indo-europeans.

[@JuLingo]

yeah, absolutely agree with you 👍

[@coobalt]

estonian people identified themselves as "maarahvas" ("country people" ...."rural people") only until the second part of 19'th century. then the national movement/enlightement started ....

[@1leon000]

2:56 õ is actually read as /ɤ/, the symbol you used represents the voiced velar fricative, the voiced version of /x/

[@BagdagulMirzali]

видео как всегда супер (:

[@JuLingo]

спасибо большое! ☺️

[@Sonicstillpoint83]

Wow! 😍 what an underrated language. That’s so pretty.

[@jorgepadilha1873]

Thank you, Julie! A very interesting language. The people in my country (Brasil) complain very often about our language (portuguese). They simply do not imagine how intrincate one language can be. Portuguese is a piece of cake compared to Estonian

[@JuLingo]

haha yeah they can't even imagine 😅 thanks for commenting 😉

[@nabilalkhlidi]

I liked your explanation of the topic

[@gomintgreen]

I'm looking forward to your video about the Lithuanian language. Your audience from Hong Kong

[@JuLingo]

Will do for sure ☺️

[@expreserge1]

Another great video!

[@АлишерДвачевский]

Õ - pronounce like russian "ы"

[@piretkivi3218]

Not really. The Estonian Õ is on the same level with O. The Russian one with U. I can hear the difference very clearly.

[@firstboyonthemoon8876]

I have been to Estonia, the people of Tallinn are very nice and friendly.

[@henri-laur1029]

im estonian and the grammar is still so hard😉

[@marieshka1]

Any suggestions on Estonian language movies or spoken word performances on KZbin? The small clip of native speakers sounded beautiful, and it would be nice to hear more.

[@eleigar1]

Estonian and Finnish has a same word for king. It's Germanic origins in both cases but I wonder how it came to be. Did Finnish have kuningas first and then it spread to Estonian or otherway around. It seems unlikely that both Finnish and Estonian would come up with exactly the same word independently. Also, do Finnish next!

[@JuLingo]

Elegia hmmm I wonder 🤔

[@S2nnuVEVO]

Estonian is highly influenced by German. Finnish is closer to the “original” form of the language. A part of Estonia was occupied by Germany for centuries (more than 3 if I’m not mistaken), we were part of the Hanseatic League and it was one of the main languages spoken here at the time - by the upper class though. If I’m not mistaken today’s version of Estonian language is most influenced by German (out of all the countries that have occupied us & are close by). I don’t know as much about Finland in the Middle Ages, but as they’re not too far from us, I’m not surprised we share the same loan words. :) Edit: just finished the video and most of this part was covered anyway haha. Oh well😂

[@coobalt]

@@S2nnuVEVO more like 700 years. estonia was occupied by teutonic order in 13'th century and the influences of that carried on until the first part of 20'th century (even if the power changed ....to swedish or russian .....the landlords were still the same ....old german families). AND estonian is of course influenced by german ....but not very much. it's just that serfdom in estonia draw a strict line between occupiers and slaves. they kept distance and therefore the influence was rather small. in 19'th century some estonians tried to look more "noble" (read "more german) and integreted german words into estonian ........but overall it hasn't influenced estonian very much ....

[@timoterava7108]

Actually the word kuningas (and many more) came with the early Germanic population before the Baltic Finnic speakers arrived - first to Estonia and then to Finland. At least in Finland there very possibly used to be people of various origins speaking several different languages: unknown, early Ugric, proto-Germanic, Sami and proto-Finnic.

[@chaoscontrolsok]

Nice video, greetings from Hungary! :)