Language friend Darja: The most important thing is to overcome the shyness and fear of speaking Estonian!
Darja Rovba, a board member of a non-governmental organisation and a participant in our Language Friends programme, and her mentor, communication expert Maria Leis, shared with us their impressions of their spring cooperation.
Emine Cetinkaya: I enrolled in the Language Friends programme just out of curiosity, but completed it with pure joy!
Mailis Sütiste-Gnannt, an Estonian national who is a German and Estonian language teacher, freelance journalist, interpreter, and translator living in Guermantes, near Paris, France for most of the year, was a mentor to Emine Cetinkaya, a Turkish housewife living in Tallinn, for two and a half months this spring. The women kindly agreed to share with us their impressions of the journey they had together.
Language friends Ülo and Alexander: becoming language friends through internal compulsion
Read the experiences shared by language lovers Ülo and Alexander
