We tracked down 3 of the best YouTube channels for learning Estonian, including 2 you can use for free. Our top picks right now are Little Miss Squirrel, Learning Estonian and Easy Languages. Every entry below is hand-checked, and the ones that teach you come first — with free options ahead of paid ones wherever they are as good.
3 resources · 2 free
A word of Estonian a day, six hundred videos deep.
About this tool →Short daily vocabulary videos from a teacher in Estonia, each on a single word with pronunciation and use. Not a course, and the format is exactly right for the drip-feed a hard language needs between study sessions — Estonian vocabulary shares almost nothing with English or Russian, so it has to be built one word at a time.
Grammar lessons for the cases, explained in English.
About this tool →Forty videos working through the case system and everyday constructions. Small, and one of very few places where Estonian grammar is explained rather than merely drilled.
Street interviews with dual subtitles, produced in dozens of languages.
About this tool →A franchise of local producers filming unscripted street interviews, each episode subtitled in the target language and English, which is the closest free thing to hearing how people genuinely speak. All YouTube episodes are free; membership adds transcripts, vocabulary lists and exercises. Real-speed unscripted speech is hard early on — start with the slower 'Super Easy' episodes if you are below B1.
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