Agence France Presse:
TALLINN (AFP) — Education authorities in Estonia Thursday warned that the hands-down dominance of English in its schools is depriving the Baltic state of the language specialists it will need in the future.
A hefty 84 percent of pupils in this country of 1.3 million people opt to study English, according to official statistics.
Some 41 percent take Russian as a foreign language. Russian is also the native tongue of around a third of the population.
German and French, meanwhile, come in a distant third and fourth, studied respectively by just 18 percent and three percent of pupils.
“As a result, Estonia is now lacking and also likely far into the future to lack a sufficient number of specialists able to work in other official languages of the European Union,” Kersti Sostar, head of the language department of Estonia’s state examination and qualification centre, told AFP.
I think it’s good. Not understanding the Russian propaganda is nice
Estonian is the nicest language for me.
However, Spanish or something like that would be nice aswell.
English is just easy and needed(!).
Russian, quite ugly and something that we don’t miss.
These were my opinions.