I’m curious will you look to add dictionaries for any specific language? I see you’re a native speaker of Yiddisch and I must say I find that language beautiful. If you ever get the chance to add it to lingQ please do! It’s a minority language here in Sweden and most of Europe so it would be awesome to create another source of learning materials for those who have it in their family.
I might do something with Yiddish one of these days. There are others on my list, though.
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If you hesitate I must say that it really doesn’t take that long. The translating of the text can be done in maybe two weeks, three weeks tops. And the recording you can do over a weekend.
The grammar guide is also very easy if you’re grammatically inclined. But of course I understand that you don’t have so much time to it. I’m just very eager to see it on here
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Hi!
A collection of reliable Estonian dictionaries for different purposes can be found here: Sõnastikud – EKI.ee – Eesti Keele Instituut
As an Estonian I can say that we sometimes use Google Translate to amuse ourselves by letting it translate an Estonian text into English and laughing at the result. Google Translate and DeepL can be used to get a very rough base for a translation but both need heavy editing by someone who actually speaks the language. This applies in both directions. These systems only understand the most literal sense of a word and phrase but very often that is not what was meant. And sometimes they just hallucinate and make up things that were not in the original text at all.
Estonian television shows, series, etc can be viewed here: https://jupiter.err.ee/. I`m not sure how much is available outside Estonia, though.
Best wishes with getting the Estonian course up!
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If you are really interested in learning Estonian, there is a very interesting English-language Estonian Studies program.
Wonder if people involved with the program might be interested in helping develop Lingq?
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