🇪🇪Across Estonia's Russian-Speaking East: EASTonia Ep. 1🇪🇪

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Күн бұрын

0:00 Train From Tallinn
2:44 Journey Through Jõhvi
10:55 Arrival in Kohtla-Järve
This is the first episode in a multi-part travel vlog series called EASTonia, where we travel across mostly Russian-speaking towns in the eastern region of Estonia.
Estonia is an interesting country, full of cutting edge technology, beautiful traditional medieval buildings, modern high rise buildings, but also many architectural remnants of a Soviet past.
Travelling to the far eastern regions of the country, as we approach the Russian border, we encounter many towns where the majority of local people speak Russian as their first language. Throughout these towns we encounter friendly people, as I continue to learn the Russian language in my travels.
If you enjoy this journey, make sure you stick around for the upcoming Episode 2, so please subscribe to my channel so you will be notified of its release.
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Пікірлер: 95

@henrikmanitski1061 3 ай бұрын

The “farm building” are the ruins of an old windmill.

@borschbandit 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for that! That's good to know. How old do you reckon it to be? Maybe used for processing something?

@user-lj8kg4jd1l 3 ай бұрын

Funny fact: The word "вокзал" ("vaksaali" in Estonian) originates from the English word " Vauxhall".

@tiinapahk1997 24 күн бұрын

Vaksal estonian.

@giuseppecappelluti3626 14 күн бұрын

In the beginning, I didn’t understand if you wanted to go to Jõhvi or to Jõgeva….

@annaivanova3196 3 ай бұрын

You still got Jõhvi wrong 😂 It's a similar sound to Russian "Ы" but I get why it's complicated to pronouns, my international friends were having difficulties as well. Hopefully you had a chance to visit Toila Park and Valaste waterfall, beautiful places. In case you didn't, come back in summer, it's even better🔥

@borschbandit 3 ай бұрын

Its a hard one! Hahahah Tried our best! Great place, all the same.

@lucasrem 3 ай бұрын

Anna Nova Jõhvi, you never need the Russians pronunciation ! Etonian ! You Refugee in the west now ? To lazy to learn the language ? English will never work, lol !

@tiitsaul9036 2 ай бұрын

Interestingly, you'r first language is English, but you probounce Estonian names with russian accent.

@i.h.9829 Ай бұрын

It's because he's a tankie.

@viktoriamazurenko250 3 ай бұрын

It's so great to see someone visiting my city!

@borschbandit 3 ай бұрын

You will enjoy the upcoming second episode! In the next episode, we go to the beautiful House of Culture there.

@DomitoroDesu Ай бұрын

I myself was surprised that someone came to Jõhvi.

@sanmanchan 2 ай бұрын

Congrats on the vinyl purchase! Certainly an excellent piece of history. :)

@andreasveide 3 ай бұрын

What camera do you use? It looks so smooth

@borschbandit 3 ай бұрын

refurbished iPhone 13 Pro Max, believe it or not!

@georgkuznetsov5388 3 ай бұрын

Nice to see whole blog.

@lisamchugh2979 2 ай бұрын

Would you recommend going here to someone who wants to go Russia but to worried about smo to go there now ( eu citizen)

@borschbandit 2 ай бұрын

After I finish uploading next two episodes of EASTonia (Ep. 3 out this week), you'll see videos of me going to Russia. Crossing Estonia/Russian border to Kingisepp, and then I just got back from Kaliningrad on another trip. I travelled on my EU passport, on the quick and easy 40 euro new Russian e-visa all EU citizens can get online. I had an incredible experience in Russia, everyone was friendly, including border guards. I'd say go to Russia if you want to go to Russia, its amazing. You will have no issues. I would say for those who truly can't go to Russia, Ida-Viru County in Eastern Estonia specifically is a decent place to practice the Russian language, and has some interesting history elements intertwined with Russian and Soviet history, but its also a very different place in a way. It feels different. Still worth visiting! I enjoyed my time there.

@MariusYa 3 ай бұрын

7:52 , it used to be a temporary middle school. Also it was home to electricity company

@borschbandit 3 ай бұрын

Good to know! I think the building has a beautiful design. Was surprised to see it boarded up but it may be from renovations.

@iNF32Q 3 ай бұрын

Bald and bankrupt style😊

@ludmillajaps4490 Ай бұрын

Очень красивое старинное здание вокзала но требует ремонта

@raulolen3991 3 ай бұрын

Good video!

@orion10x10 3 ай бұрын

That train looked really nice 😍

@lucasrem 3 ай бұрын

Orion Are you India Pakistan, why you say that ?

@hangingontheWildside Ай бұрын

@@lucasrem Why the hell would they be indian or pakistani ffs? Europeans are far more interested in trains than you people are.

@Jamie71q 3 ай бұрын

That's a unusual Belfast accent :P, nice find in the thrift shop, I would of spent hours in there

@lucasrem 3 ай бұрын

Irish

@noco7243 3 ай бұрын

16:20 that album is from the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

@naturallanguageacquisition 3 ай бұрын

I visited Tallinn and had the opportunity to practice some Russian. Maybe when I'm a bit better I can venture East as well. How would you describe your method of learning the language? Do you use apps, teacher, books?

@borschbandit 3 ай бұрын

I spent my first year exclusively on Duolingo, fairly casually. I still use Duolingo but I also take an online class with a teacher from Tiraspol once a week. I also learn words from watching the Russian social media platform ‘VK’. I have more episodes coming from the eastern towns, so subscribe if you would like to see more!

@lucasrem 3 ай бұрын

@@borschbandit VKontakte, mad ! You need to learn Estonian, Who needs Putin ?

@user-lj8kg4jd1l 3 ай бұрын

@@lucasrem is it useful to learn the language which will most probably disappear within 30-40 years?

@minaolenella869 3 ай бұрын

I see it is full of delusional Russian bots

@i.h.9829 3 ай бұрын

@@user-lj8kg4jd1l You mean Russian after Russia getting curb stomped?

@mr0x013 3 ай бұрын

Here in K-J you are in video west-north side

@borschbandit 3 ай бұрын

Question for you, do locals call it K-J for short?

@mr0x013 3 ай бұрын

@@borschbandit yeah, correct and we call sometimes it by english as k-j

@ludmillajaps4490 Ай бұрын

Пятьдесят лет назад выглядело все чисто ухожено и красиво без грусти нельзя смотреть на бывшие ухоженные чистые улицы

@lucasrem 3 ай бұрын

Station and line opened in 1936, definitely Soviet era. The monument is for the Gulag deportations.

@Sirka888 3 ай бұрын

1936 OK. But soviet came 1940!

@SionTJobbins Ай бұрын

Not Soviet era in Estonia!

@mr0x013 3 ай бұрын

At the end of video you are in broddway center of k-j

@pettahify 3 ай бұрын

In all the baltics you can always assume that the olrder generations can speak some russian, while the younger can speak english. So when approaching the ticket-lady in Tallinn you try russian first 😉 And of course, almost half of the population in Tallinn considers Russian their first language, and a third considers themselves to be russian.

@i.h.9829 3 ай бұрын

No he shouldn't try Russian. Nobody should try Russian first in any situation.

@palmi7816 3 ай бұрын

Yes, in Tallinn and in eastern Estonia, most people know Russian. The service sector is also Russian-speaking in the majority. You can practice the Russian language. Very convenient.

@annika9930 3 ай бұрын

No! That is actually reallly insulting to Estonians. You should never approach anyone in Russian.

@i.h.9829 3 ай бұрын

@@palmi7816 Sure, if you want to be a lowlife.

@i.h.9829 3 ай бұрын

@@palmi7816 Parasite.