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Your Estonian works fine one-on-one with your partner. Then you're invited to a family saun (sauna) evening — a genuinely central Estonian social ritual, often shared with extended family — and the relaxed, quiet conversational style takes some adjusting to if you're used to louder, more talkative gatherings.Why frequency-based learning works especially well hereFamily gatherings throw real, unfiltered Estonian at you, in a culture that values comfortable silence as much as conversation. A frequency dictionary builds the vocabulary that actually matters: not a phrasebook of romantic phrases, but the 2,500, 5,000, or 10,000 most commonly used Estonian words — the...