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Battering down the language barrier

Sep 30, 1999
By Tricia Cornell

Never mind the linguistic hype. Tricia Cornell proves anyone can learn Estonian.His story is sad, but true. John* arrived in Estonia not knowing a word of the language and not sure whether the correct linguistic classification was Finno-Ugric or Fennel-Urgic.On the streets around him he saw confusing signs, full of double letters and funny accent marks. When he overheard locals talking, the only word he could pick out was "sex," which seemed to figure in nine sentences out of 10. This made him f ...

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