Why Estonia's schools are abandoning teaching in Russian | Focus on Europe
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Estonian is hard, but it is rude to call it a punishment to learn.
In case you for some reason see my previous comment. Ignore it, Estonian is not a Baltic language, lol. I fucked up.
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Estonia's large Russian-speaking minority used to be taught in Russian. The government has responded to Russia's invasion with a reform to end this. Now, lessons will only be taught in Estonian.
Because fuck Russia.
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In case you for some reason see my previous comment. Ignore it, Estonian is not a Baltic language, lol. I fucked up.
Estonian is 100% a baltic language, but not a Slavic language.
Latvian and Lithuanian are also not Slavic. -
Estonian is 100% a baltic language, but not a Slavic language.
Latvian and Lithuanian are also not Slavic.Estonian is actually a Finno-Ugric language. That's why I removed my comment.
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Latvia did it a year ago, and the blowback has been less than expected.
I saw a Documentary on it that interviewed Russian ethnic Latvians, and they seemed to accept it, as long as there were no social restrictions. There were of course Russian nationalists who objected, mainly the older generation.So they accepted it except for the ones that didn't?
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As a person who started to learn Russian few years ago, it's sad to see, but ultimately it's a good choice for Estonian people or any other nation which is at risk of Russian expansionism .
Vladimir Putin is the worst thing that happened to Russia, Russian culture and Russian language.
Undoubtedly Putin is an evil, horrible dictator. But the worst? I'm not so sure about that. They had Stalin, that's at least a close contender.
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So they accepted it except for the ones that didn't?
Yes. That is how things work with large groups of people. One could even describe Leadership as the negotiation between groups of differing opinions. Good luck getting 10 people to agree on lunch.
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Estonian is actually a Finno-Ugric language. That's why I removed my comment.
Finnish and Estonian share a root - and I would call both languages Baltic. Latcian and Lithuanian share and equally ancient and separate root - but are still Baltic.
Hungarian not Baltic, but Finni-Ugrech.
You have a point, bit don't carellessly deny them their Baltic definition.
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Yes. That is how things work with large groups of people. One could even describe Leadership as the negotiation between groups of differing opinions. Good luck getting 10 people to agree on lunch.
So they didn't accept it
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So they didn't accept it
Which "they" do you mean? What percentage of the pop was it?
Do you have a stake? Or are you just being pedantic?
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