Estonian Textbook Grammar Exercises Conversation
SearchWorks catalog The Stanford Libraries will be operating on a reduced schedule during the Stanford Winter Closure period (December 14, 2020 - January 1, 2021). More information about hours and affected services Responsibility by Juhan Tuldava; translated into English & revised by Ain Haas. Language English, Estonian. Translated from Swedish. Imprint Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1994. Physical description 379 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. Series Uralic and Altaic series v. 159. Description Bibliographic information Publication date 1994 Indiana University Uralic and Altaic series; v. 159 Note Includes indexes. Donated by Ursula Browning. ISBN 0933070349 9780933070349
Grammar for conversation
- Estonian textbook grammar exercises conversation with two
- Estonian textbook grammar exercises conversation with pictures
- Conversation exercises
You can find the basics of Estonian grammar on this page: Sentence structure The tenses Verbs and conjugations Cases Nouns, adjectives, pronouns etc. Estonian course for foreigners This course is suitable for everyone who speaks English and is interested in learning Estonian! Doesn't matter if you are a complete beginner - the course starts from the very basics and covers all the important rules about the Estonian grammar. After finishing this course you will be able to have basic conversations and express your thoughts and feelings. You can learn everything you need without having to leave your house! Additional Skype lessons to become a fluent speaker! We highly recommend you to take Skype lessons with one of our teachers. You will have a chance to practice your skills with a native speaker and get answers to all of your questions. Schedule a lesson according to your free time and become a master of Estonian! 1 Estonian sentence structure Learn the Estonian sentence structure and word order.
I would recommend you pick up a good Estonian/English dictionary (with two way translation), again written by a native Estonian speaker. Also of immense benefit, would be access to a native speaker to practice with, and who can fine tune your pronunciation! I'm over the moon about finding this book - it is light years ahead of trying to pick up Estonian using an eesti version of Gone with the Wind from my mother's bookshelf. Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2020 Verified Purchase This is easily the best Estonian textbook I've ever encountered. I wish I'd picked it up years ago. Instead of just throwing random situational phrases at you, the author breaks down the reasons behind the conjugation, then provides examples including phrases and sentences using the words. I understand another review's concerns with the book's organization, but I didn't find it to be an issue. Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2001 Verified Purchase Juhan Tuldava did a excellent job when compiling this Estonian Grammar Textbook.
Typologically, Estonian represents a transitional form from an agglutinating language to a fusional language. Over the course of Estonian history, German has exercised a strong influence on Estonian, both in vocabulary and syntax. In Estonian nouns and pronouns do not have grammatical gender, but nouns and adjectives decline in fourteen cases: nominative, genitive, partitive, illative, inessive, elative, allative, adessive, ablative, translative, terminative, essive, abessive, and comitative, with the case and number of the adjective(s) always agreeing with that of the noun (except in the terminative, essive, abessive and comitative, where there is agreement only for the number, the adjective being in the genitive form). Thus the illative for "a yellow house" (kollane maja) — "into a yellow house" is (kollasesse majja). The direct object of the verb appears either in the accusative (for total objects) or in the partitive (for partial objects). The accusative coincides with the genitive in the singular and with nominative in the plural.
At first it may look like nothing, but in fact, it is MORE than just a phrasebook. You can learn many useful expressions in everyday situations. The book also comes with audios, you can access to audio files by scanning the QR-code. Although the book is in German, I believe you could handle it. I used Wort für Wort to start off learning any language, especially rare ones. It offers more than 200 languages.
are clearly laid out for you to be able to grasp these concepts in appropriate bite-sized chunks, with material to practice and perfect as you go. I don't think it is possible to learn Estonian from a phrase book - you cannot memorize enough phrases to be able to converse. And you cannot just learn Estonian words and plug them into English style grammar. Also, learning from children's books doesn't give you the basics that Estonian children would have grown up hearing and knowing. This book gives you the fundamentals and framework that you can then plug your vocabulary into, and the rules for how you would tweak your vocabulary to get the proper grammar so that others can understand you! This book is ideal for me, but I think those with a variety of Estonian skills would find benefit; those new to the language who need a clean framework of rules, or speakers who learned at home, but not through the school system, and so may have missed out on many grammar concepts. (ie. those who want to know what the rules are, and why things are said a certain way, even though they have been saying it that way for years).