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Moved to Estonia? Here's How to Actually Learn Estonian as an Expat
You moved to Estonia — maybe drawn by its digital-nomad-friendly e-Residency program — expecting daily life to teach you the language as you go. Then you hit your first visit to register your isikukood (personal ID code) and someone switched effortlessly to English. Estonia is one of the most digitally advanced and English-fluent countries in Europe, especially in tech and startup circles, which makes immersion far less automatic than you'd expect.Why frequency-based learning works especially well hereEstonian isn't related to its Baltic neighbors at all — it's part of the Finnic language family, closer to Finnish than to Latvian or...