EuroTalk Interactive - Talk Now! Learn Estonian

So...EuroTalk seems to have hired some really great native speakers to record the lessons in this CD, but they probably used most of their budget on the voice actors and had to skimp on the UI. Because, wow. It's really unfortunate. Like a second-thought, spare tire kind of unfortunate.Apart from the interface, the actual language instruction is pretty good. I learned enough to have a very basic conversation, mostly focusing on shouting vocabulary at my Estonian friends without bothering to conjugate anything. But since the interface is an important part of the language bit, I'm only giving this three stars. Also, I could not, for the life of me, get the iPod version to load into iTunes correctly.

My expectations were NOT met. The interface is ugly, jerky, slow to load all throughout and you CANT download the program onto your computer There is no real teaching method here. Not 1/10 as good as the free program that the Estonian government offers. Oh, it shows real people saying the words, only they are not really doing so, the lips are moving randomly in time with the words; pathetic. Pronunciation is good but as no real grammar is taught you only get part of the picture.

Well, as an Estonian living in U.S., and trying my children learn, this is an easy way to teach/learn basic estonian. They are using similar principle as Rosetta Stone, and doing truly a great job. Highly recommend.

If you want a little jump start on a language this is a good one and it is so much fun!!

This is an amazing product! It taught me so much about estonians and their language. They had real estonian people on the cd. This cd shows you how to speak and talk estonian. Plus you can learn it on your mp3 or ipod player. It downloads it on there! It is great and I highly recommend it!Hannah  EuroTalk Interactive - Talk Now! Learn Estonian