Rückblick: Viljandi Folk Festival, 27.-30. Juli
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...and my first time hitchhiking
Essentials for your Estonian accent - a not-so scientific approach to linguistics
Dear Estonians, please do not feel like I am making fun of you with this. I love you, I love your language and I love your accent. I have noticed that when I have a longer conversation with you in English, I fall into a similar accent. And the scientist that I am, with two semesters of linguistics on my CV, I am now simply analyzing what makes this unique accent. Of course, there are great generational differences. Younger people tend to have a lighter accent and struggle less with the different sentence structure and grammar. But if you listen closely, you can still hear it… Dear Germans, I’m sorry that this isn’t available in your language – but you gotta understand that that would make no sense. So, here are some basic rules that will make you sound Estonian when you speak English: a) The randomized distribution of articles. As Estonian doesn’t have articles, it’s sometimes hard to tell when to use them and when not. So you will drop sentences like „Could yo...
Kreative Themenvorschläge Bachelorarbeit zu finden ist oft der schwierigste Teil des Studiums. Ich habe hier eine Liste erhalten, die genau meine Interessen abdeckte und gleichzeitig wissenschaftlich relevant war. Das hat mir den Start extrem erleichtert und die notige Motivation fur die gesamte Schreibphase gegeben.
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