Teach Yourself Estonian_Audios

[nhanvan]

Hi all,
I am beginner to study Estonian. I love this language but it seems not much materials available in internet for my reference. I am struggling in finding the audios of Teach Yourself Estonian book or even dictionary of Estonian especially English-Estonian with available speaker . I really appreciate if someone could share it. Thank you

[hashi]

The sharing of copyrighted material is prohibited by Unilang. There are places on the internet to find such resources, but unfortunately I cannot link to them here.

[nhanvan]

Thanks for your post reply, this is unfortunate, I have checked in Amazon for purchasing this kind of book. However, they don’t have to deliver to Vietnam. I tried to find some available resources throughout internet but I still haven’t seen it.
It’s hard study foreign language without audio or speaker for reference. Since we don’t know we pronounce it correct or not

[ainurakne]

... or even dictionary of Estonian especially English-Estonian with available speaker .

I guess Estonian is so small and little known language that even Google hasn't bothered to get an Estonian speech synthesizer for its translator.

But you can find one here: http://heli.eki.ee/koduleht/
There is a text box at the right side of the page, below which there is a choice of synthesizers, and a small clickable logo, which makes the text to be read out loud.

I'm not saying they are great, but some of these options can give a pretty good idea of how some words or phrases are pronounced.


NB: the synthesizers won't differentiate between different lengths of sounds (long/overlong) which are written the same way. For that you must use ÕS for example.

[hashi]

You could also use forvo to find out how a word is pronounced. I searched for a couple of Estonian words and there were recordings for these. Unfortunately I'm not sure how many words for Estonian are available on that site - but it's worth a try

[nhanvan]

Thanks for all you about sharing the resources. I am highly appreciated about it. I have to try and hope that would work for me.

[h34]

Hello nhanvan,
I found a very interesting website recently which offers free (downloadable) audio recordings of basic sentences used in everyday situations in many language combinations including Estonian. As I am new here I don't really know whether or not it's permitted to add a direct link to the site...
... but you might find it if you google "50 languages"...

[hashi]

Hello nhanvan,
I found a very interesting website recently which offers free (downloadable) audio recordings of basic sentences used in everyday situations in many language combinations including Estonian. As I am new here I don't really know whether or not it's permitted to add a direct link to the site...
... but you might find it if you google "50 languages"...

As long as it's not pirated, and from it's original source, then it's fine

[h34]

Hello nhanvan,
I found a very interesting website recently which offers free (downloadable) audio recordings of basic sentences used in everyday situations in many language combinations including Estonian. As I am new here I don't really know whether or not it's permitted to add a direct link to the site...
... but you might find it if you google "50 languages"...

As long as it's not pirated, and from it's original source, then it's fine

OK I'll just go ahead and add the link: http://www.goethe-verlag.com/book2/