The Finno-Ugric linguistic family occupies a special place in my linguistic imagination, as tongues impossible to learn. My roommate in the first year I was working at the Jagiellonian University was planning to learn that sort of things. I wonder how far she managed to go. Be that as it may, Estonian is a minor tongue even in that exotic, although not so distant, linguistic group. In the online encyclopedia I find the information that few people actually speak it. So what do they speak? Still Russian?
That would puzzle me; so close to Scandinavia, this neat Baltic country might actually belong to the same linguistic community stretching across half of the world. Perhaps I'm lucky to have been taught Russian, much against my will. And I should go to Estonia before the last of its wolves is gone.