English in my Life
The main language and also our mother
tongue is Estonian. Also Russian is a commonly spoken language because almost one-third
of the population in Estonia is formed by Russians.
Besides those two languages many Estonians are quite good at English. We are visited by
many tourists from Finland, Sweden, Latvia and many other countries. Tourists from the
Scandinavian countries and from other places of Europe don't speak in Estonian. So it is
quite important for us to speak itEnglish an international language. It also goes the other
way around when we go traveling somewhere in Europe or even further - then we mainly use
English to communicate with people.
Over the last 10 years the use of English has grown a lot in Estonia. We have many new TV
channels in English. Also some Estonians work abroad because of the salary or better
working conditions. There are jobs that require English even here in Estonia, as well. For