You live here now
The pharmacist, the school gate, the letter from the city.
Estonian for the life you live here
Estonian that finally sticks
For example, raamat becomes raamatusse, into the book
The neighbor says hello. A coworker asks you something. You need the right words when someone’s looking at you, and Kodukeel teaches them fifteen minutes at a time.
- 7,102 words, 40,844 forms, and not one of them made up by AI
- 102 units, from your first hello at A1 all the way to C1
- Free, and it works offline
- Counts the real conversations you have, not the days you open the app
Who it’s for
Whatever brought you to Estonian
You love someone who speaks it
Their mom on the phone, the toast at the birthday party.
You have an exam to pass
Full mock papers from A2 to C1, marked by rules you can check.
How the real exam worksYou work in Estonian
Meetings, emails, the chat by the coffee machine.
The cases
Learn three forms.
Build the other eleven.
Fourteen cases is the number that makes people give up on Estonian. In practice you learn three forms of a word, sometimes four, and the rest are the same endings glued on, for every word in the language. When a word breaks the pattern, you’ll see what Estonians actually say right beside what the rule predicts. Press an ending and build one yourself.
Try a word
Learn three
raamatwhat?
raamatuthe stem
raamatutwhat? (some of it)
raamatuplus-ssemakes
raamatusse
into the book
Then glue on an ending, the same eleven for every word
0 of 11 built from raamat
Say it to somebody
Order a drink in Estonian. Right now, no account needed.
This is one of the 43 conversations inside: a café counter, and somebody waiting for your order. Here you pick what to say, from hello to paying. Inside the app, you type it yourself.
A small café, earlyYour bus leaves in ten minutes.
- Hello
- Order
- Size
- Bill
- Pay
- Bye
On the board
- Coffee, tea, water and juice, each with its price in euros.
Here you just pick a line, and they all work. Inside the app you type what you’d really say. Get an ending wrong and they still understand you, then say it back the right way.
Behind the counterwaiting for you
Six little moments, from hello to goodbye. Each time you pick what to say, and see how the person behind the counter reacts.
No account needed, and nothing gets saved.
There’s no AI in this conversation. Every line on both sides comes from the dictionary, or was read and checked by a native speaker.
Your first evening
18 minutes, eight words. Try the first step now.
Every evening is one lesson. You hear a short conversation, meet its words, see how they fit together, then say it yourself, and then the app says you’re done for the night.
- 1Listen2 minA short conversation in two voices, with the English under each line.
- 2Words3 minEvery new word from it in one table, with a speaker beside each. Nothing is asked yet.
- 3How it works2 minThe one idea of the evening, shown on the lines you just heard.
- 4Practice5 minPick, match and listen first, then type it yourself.
- 5Say it4 minAnswer questions about yourself out loud, or type them if you'd rather.
- 6Review2 minWords from earlier lessons come back, so they stay.
- 18 minutes, and then you’re done for the night. 260 evenings like this one take you all the way to C1.
Evening one, step one
First words
Say hello, thank you and goodbye, at any time of day.
- Tere!Hello!
- Tere hommikust!Good morning!
- Tere päevast!Good afternoon!
- Tere õhtust!Good evening!
- Aitäh!Thank you!
- Palun!Please.
- Head aega!Goodbye!
- Nägemist!See you!
Questions
Things people ask us
How this compares with other apps is the last question.
Do I need to pay for anything?
No, and there's nothing to install either. A few things cost us real money to run, so Anu, the writing feedback and the camera each have a daily limit. A normal evening never gets near it.
Where do the Estonian forms come from?
From a real dictionary, never from AI. AI makes up forms that look right and aren't, and a flashcard would drill that mistake straight into your head. When Anu translates a sentence for you, the app says so.
Is this only for beginners?
Not at all. It runs from A1 to C1, and the bits that trip up even advanced learners get extra practice: letters that change in the middle of a word, the case each verb insists on, and when an object takes which ending. Not sure where you are? Take the level check. There are mock state exam papers at A2, B1, B2 and C1 too, built fresh from real sentences and marked by clear rules rather than a model. The one exception is the spoken part, which you mark yourself.
Will it actually get me talking to people?
Yes. You'll practice with people who want something from you: a receptionist, a landlord, a clerk. What you say is checked against the dictionary, never graded by an AI, so you can't be told you were wrong when you were right. Every morning the app asks whether you spoke Estonian to anyone yesterday, and if not, it gives you one small thing to say out loud. It counts those conversations, even the ones where somebody switched to English. It can hear Estonian too: say a line instead of typing it, and it works out which words you said on your own device, so the sound never leaves it. It won't score how a word sounded: a recognizer quietly corrects most slips into the right word, so it can't tell you that.
What happens to my data?
It stays in your account, and you can download every bit of it from Settings whenever you like. Your record of every answer you've given is the one thing we could never rebuild, so we never change or delete any of it, unless you delete your account.
How does it compare with Speakly, Keeleklikk and Anki?
As of August 2026, Duolingo has never offered Estonian, so the real choice is between the tools that do. That month we checked ten claims against each tool’s own website, and another tool earns a check mark on seven of them.
Free, with no subscription
KodukeelSpeaklyKeeleklikkAnki
Built for Estonian and nothing else
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Teaches the cases one at a time
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Every form shows the dictionary it came from
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Brings a word back on the day you would forget it
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Any word you look up becomes a card
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Explains why the answer was wrong
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Keeps working with no connection
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Lets you rehearse a conversation with somebody who wants something from you
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Counts the conversations you have outside it
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Speakly
Made in Estonia, and the quickest way to get 4,000 common words into your ear. It's a paid app.
Keeleklikk and Keeletee
Free, state-funded courses where a real teacher answers you by email. Start there, and keep this open alongside.
Anki
Schedules anything you're willing to type in. Finding the Estonian is up to you, and so is getting it right.
The vocabulary apps
Drops, Mondly, Memrise, Ling and the rest are good at words. This is about which form of the word to use, and why.
How this table was checked
A check mark means yes, a dash means their own pages don’t say so, and a question mark means we couldn’t tell. We checked each product’s own website in August 2026. Every name belongs to its owner, and none of them has endorsed this. If we’ve got something wrong, tell us and we’ll fix it.
Fifteen minutes here.
Then say it to somebody.
Next time somebody speaks to you in Estonian, you’ll have something to say back, and you’ll have said it before.
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