{"id":11818,"date":"2015-11-04T13:46:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T12:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=11818"},"modified":"2015-11-04T13:46:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T12:46:52","slug":"eesti-keel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=11818","title":{"rendered":"eesti keel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had an interesting chat with an Estonian student who is studying in Bangor about Estonia and the Estonian language. I knew a little about the language already, but realised that I didn&#8217;t know any words or phrases in Estonian, apart from its native name &#8211; <em>eesti keel<\/em> &#8211; and I wasn&#8217;t even sure how to pronounce that: [e\u02d0sti.ke\u02d0l].<\/p>\n<p>When I meet someone who speaks a language I haven&#8217;t studied, yet, quite often I know at least how to say hello or other phrases in their language, which usually impresses them, but I haven&#8217;t met any Estonians before, as far as I remember, and on this occasion I couldn&#8217;t think of a single word. I had an idea that hello was something like <em>terve<\/em>, but wasn&#8217;t sure &#8211; this is actually hello in Finnish. In Estonian it&#8217;s <em>tere<\/em>. So now I do know a few words in Estonian.<\/p>\n<p>One thing we talked about was the number of Russian speakers in Estonia &#8211; they make up about 20% of the population &#8211; and the fact that Estonia is quite a good place to learn Russian. I have considered this, and if I were to do a Russian language course there, I would try to learn some Estonian as well.<\/p>\n<p>Do you try to use whatever you know of a language when you meet someone who speaks it, even if you only know a word or two?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had an interesting chat with an Estonian student who is studying in Bangor about Estonia and the Estonian language. I knew a little about the language already, but realised that I didn&#8217;t know any words or phrases in Estonian, apart from its native name &#8211; eesti keel &#8211; and I wasn&#8217;t even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,106,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-estonian","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}