Do you have any stereotypes or things you associate with Estonia? For example from my view – Latvians put “s” to the end of everything (and it’s true). Generally quite friendly people. And amber and although it’s not on the flag – the colour yellow. And honey (your language just sounds like honey).
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From the distance our languages tend to sound a bit similar due to Livonian language influence (stressed syllables etc). Maybe that is also one of reasons which makes listening (and understanding) to Lithuanian more difficult than reading.
Also apparently Latvians are able to read and pronounce Estonian words in a phonetically correct manner.
Before we were the honourable 3rd place holder in the Baltic hierarchy we had a joke that you guys were slow. Like those dad anecdotes that no one found funny. Slow on the road. Slow while walking. Slow while talking etc.
Nowadays not so much. If anything you guys are the standard we compare our politicians etc. to
Stereotypical half jokes from someone living on the border:
– Estonians are physically slow
– bad (and slow) drivers
– many like the latvian word “saldējums”= ice cream, for some reason
– masses coming to the latvian side to buy hefty amounts of cheaper alcohol
– funky accent when speaking Russian
– funny to say and hear aitäh, as it means “a sheep” in latvian
– also wealthier than us here 🙂