About the Estonian language 

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

An excellent reason to learn any small language!

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.

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. :')

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.

Mi like, that, anshwa

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.

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

@@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.

@dota vinkz I want to let you know that 'mongoloid' and 'caucasoid' are outdated nowadays.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.

well welcome to ENSV

what a language 🤣

thats the magic of uralic languages

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 ;) ............

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

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

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 😁

Hey Finland, thanks for helping us during the war😃

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

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.

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

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")?

@@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.

But reading it is a nightmare above all earth

And then mitmene osastav rolls in.

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

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

Night

And mine is töö

@Mängu Asi Tööõnnetus - Work accident.

Kuuuurija a tv show of some sorts

@@DixieBanjo Right.

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

@@takuan71 Haahhhaaaa 😂

Could not agree more 😀

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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).

People always say i speak finnish its annoying

Finnish derived out of Estonian

@@peterl5804 Nope.

@@peterl5804 Other way around

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)

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

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

Kuuuuria lol

'asjaajaja' is fun too, looks like keyboard smashing

@@nel2670 like spanish laugh of some kind

@@nel2670 me when I agree on something funny

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 😅

Thank you so much!

Haha, I know, language addiction is not curable 😁

@@JuLingo thank you for making this video about our country estonia and most Estonians know English very well idk why but we are pretty good at English

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.

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

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

@@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.

@@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.

Glad you liked it!

yeah super interesting 👍

Don't come here, you have been warned

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

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

@@martinantonov9380 juba liiga hilja

You're welcome 😉

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

I will for sure!

@Dylan Daley Jó tanulást, Dylan!

"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

@@tulilind2783 Eh? Esimest korda kuulen :D

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for your support!

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

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

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

Welcome - teretulemast

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.

I noted your suggestion ☺️ And thank you!

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) .... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OBR0ftuplNE.html&ab_channel=eestimusafann ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vFlUhVyp0cA.html&ab_channel=0ferda0 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_xZp2_iCM.html&ab_channel=NaisedK%C3%B6%C3%B6gis ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8PilONE2FjA.html&ab_channel=drg8 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BNHZce1TCa8.html&ab_channel=AnsambelGreip ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zsyxl1Z9DaE.html&ab_channel=HelenAdamson i know .......it's a pretty feminine list ;) .... if you want something more masculine then maybe ........ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PSQdnvzV8CE.html&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) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nFK7osEHB5Q.html&ab_channel=ILoveLanguages%21

@@coobalt Oh yeah, thanks. Happy new year

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

one more suggestion ....that jumped to my mind right now. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u25PQKYtZaU.html&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 :) ....

Thanks a lot 😊

Thank you so much!

and Finnish is just drunk Estonian

Estonian is Hobbit Finnish

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

@@Joonaskaa Hahahhaa The Best! 😁

@@Joonaskaa I like this description best lol

Glad you liked it

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.

You are so welcome!

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.

@@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.

@@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.

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

@@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.

Yes, I do plan a video on Euskara, it's one of the most curious languages out there 😄 but Hungarian, Sami and Finnish are not from the Caucasus 🤔

Oops... I meant to write Uralic and said Caucasus! My bad. Thank you for setting me straight.

@@foutocraite happens 😅 but I thought you actually wanted to say languages from Caucasus, because there is this Sino-Caucasian language macro-family theory that links together Basque, languages of northern Caucasus, Sino-Tibetan and Na-Dene languages 😳

@@JuLingo oh that is interesting. I had heard about the hypothesis that it was related to Hungarian but not from Caucasus roots. Fascinating. Thank you so much. Looking forward to your analysis even more now 😀.

The origin of the Hungarian language may be the Danube basin, where the Finno-Ugric relatives who migrated to the north and the Minoan relatives who went to the south came from. Therefore, both groups are somehow related to the Hungarians. Uralic languages: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jWi1vgG8-sI.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cHYR7vLVUmY.html

agree 👍 smaller languages are always worth mentioning

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

@@eddykohlmann471 BTW, if you’re interested in more info on Livonian, I have a Livonian LP on my channel: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6kDaAcfM68g.html, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c1rF9MreErw.html (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.

Thank you so much 🤗

Thank you very much!

Georgian: WTF r vwls?

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

Will do for sure ☺️