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Re:The Australian Government has greenlighted compulsory int... by selven on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @06:54AM (#996302)
What about languages? Does English work fine there? What about Russian? The native language is very unlike any of the Indo-European ones I've studied.
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Re:The Australian Government has greenlighted compulsory int... by etherael on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @06:41PM (#997712)
From what I've heard from a friend who has already moved over there, English is fine for Tallinn (the capital). That said, if I do end up making the move permanent, I'd want to learn the language fluently regardless.
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Re:The Australian Government has greenlighted compulsory int... by henrikschroder on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @07:35AM (#996345)
That might be because it belongs to the Finno-Ugric family which are completely separate from the Indo-European languages. :-)
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Re:The Australian Government has greenlighted compulsory int... by mindaugas on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @08:40AM (#996426)
Usually - English is fine, at least in bigger cities.
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