Tere!

I have mentioned that I completed Keelekilkk long time ago, but haven’t said that I took an A2 course in summer, have I?

There’s an opportunity to take a free Estonian language course. I took the A2 course online by using this opportunity in summer. This time I knew this “hack” so I used it again and got the opportunity to attend the B1 course.

The class is taken place twice a week, Monday and Wednesday evenings. Each session lasts three hours including a 15-minute break.

I published my school report when I was a student in Tallinn University (in Japanese). Since the coronavirus has prevented me from going to somewhere out of Estonia, I decided to resume this “project”. Ergo I’ll write a post about the Estonian B1 classes.

★Monday

This was the first class. There were around 15 to 20 people in the class and most of them are Russian speakers. Otherwise there’s one Japanese (me!), Korean (maybe, guessed from her name), Spanish, Indian or somewhere from South East Asia. Our teacher is an Estonian middle age old woman.

In the first class, we revised something from the precision level such as ordinal numbers, and some adjectives. We had some group work for ordinal numbers by using UNO cards and introduced ourselves with adjectives that started the same alphabet as our names. (For example, my teacher’s name is Kaja, and the adjective is Kuldne = gold in English.)

I knew that I didn’t have many vocabularies but the class made me realise that I literally didn’t have.

★Wednesday

On Wednesday, we did some activity while using numerical numbers and adjectives. It was like this: we made a big circle in the classroom, started saying number from one (1) and if someone had the magnification of five (5), they had to say some adjectives. That was actually fun.

In addition, we tried some quizzes in the A2 level online in the whole class. I wasn’t confident to answer the questions but it was quite easy.

On the other hand, when it came to speaking, I really couldn’t speak at all because of my weak vocabulary. We made a pair and each one of us had a partner who is a mentor for the other. So it’s like a peer system. I got one Russian speaking guy who can speak Estonian quite fluently in my opinion, which made me wonder why he was in the B1 class. His vocabulary is succinct but mine isn’t. Therefore I though I needed to increase my vocabularies again.

Overall, it seems the class is fine though my mentor is annoying (because he doesn’t speak clearly but speaks murmuring). Well, it’s the beginning of the class so let’s see.

Aitäh! 🙂