Estonia’s large Russian-speaking minority used to be taught in Russian. The government has responded to Russia’s invasion with a reform to end this. Now, lessons will only be taught in Estonian.
Great idea. Surely punishing your country’s children for the decisions of a foreign government will end the war.
Estonian is hard, but it is rude to call it a punishment to learn.
In case you for some reason see my previous comment. Ignore it, Estonian is not a Baltic language, lol. I fucked up.
Estonian is 100% a baltic language, but not a Slavic language. Latvian and Lithuanian are also not Slavic.
Estonian is actually a Finno-Ugric language. That’s why I removed my comment.
Finnish and Estonian share a root - and I would call both languages Baltic. Latcian and Lithuanian share and equally ancient and separate root - but are still Baltic.
Hungarian not Baltic, but Finni-Ugrech.
You have a point, bit don’t carellessly deny them their Baltic definition.
With a substantial native Russian speaking minority in Estonia and other baltic countries this is IMHO a very bad idea and will only result in resentment and kids struggling in school due to language issues.
Latvia did it a year ago, and the blowback has been less than expected. I saw a Documentary on it that interviewed Russian ethnic Latvians, and they seemed to accept it, as long as there were no social restrictions. There were of course Russian nationalists who objected, mainly the older generation.
So they accepted it except for the ones that didn’t?
Yes. That is how things work with large groups of people. One could even describe Leadership as the negotiation between groups of differing opinions. Good luck getting 10 people to agree on lunch.
So they didn’t accept it
Which “they” do you mean? What percentage of the pop was it?
Do you have a stake? Or are you just being pedantic?
