This handbook gives a short overview of Estonia – state, society and
language. Moreover, this handbook also includes an overview of the Estonian
language: its structure and orthography, and most important expressions.
It also describes shortly the attitude of Estonians towards the Estonian
language, and how important it is for them. This handbook also presents
some reasons why and how to learn Estonian. This handbook is the rst of
the series in Settle in the Estonia programme. You can nd the topics of
other handbooks on the last pages of this handbook.