Least religious?

The BBC reported that Estonia was the least religous country... by survey.
But do Estonians believe in anything?... or thats what they ask.
You can hear the radio version here This is quite interesting radio programme and includes a lot of interesting cultural and historical points... some can be read in the written summary here.

Here are some stats from wikipedia and interestingly it seems to be the "Scandanavian" countries that seem to have a low percentage of "Religion". On this page there is an additional column that says "I believe there is some sort of spirit or life force" and 54% Estonians said yes to this, along with the Scandanvian countries too.

Anyway no real comment apart from that interesting comparison.
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art by 5-year-old Mari Lee "a two"

a decent book to help learn Estonian?

no idea about decency but the only ones I found:

http://www.raamatukoi.ee/cgi-bin/raamat?166793

http://www.raamatukoi.ee/cgi-bin/raamat?157080








Does anyone know any possibility to learn Estonian online? Or a decent book? Or a good Estonian bookstore to ask?
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photo by Ian of the New Arched Bridge over the Unpronouncable Emajõgi in Tartu 2010

and for people who want to learn and experience Estonia/UK

 People who do may be interested in the following:

First of all in 2011 Tallinn (along with Turku , Finland) is the Capital of Culture for Europe. A few years ago in 2008 Liverpool was the Capital of Culture and was a major success and included many events including a big mechanical spider which climbed down a tower block and paraded along the street. I was lucky enough to see this whilst travelling to and back from Stockholm via Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
I am sure there are a lot of events planned for Tallinn too. The Official website can be found here : http://www.tallinn2011.ee/?id=91 (In English but other languages available :)) and also the current events can be found by downloading a PDF here
http://www.tallinn2011.ee/?id=258
It would be an ideal time to visit Tallinn and Estonia and learn a lot from it be it by Music, Literature , Plays or whatever is going on at the time.


Now probably not really in the main vein but maybe good time to visit the UK is London 2012 Olympics. The various Olympic events are of course taking part in London but there are events around other places too including Manchester (Old Trafford, if that counts as Manchester? :)) and Weymouth. Of course there are great events on like the opening event which always seems try and out do the last country. So if you love sport and want to see the UK maybe this is the best time to come? The offical page is here: http://www.london2012.com/(Please accept my apologies for lack of other language options! Pesky English!)
and of course I dont guarantee that this will go ahead as the end of the world is 2012 sometime... maybe.

Of course these are just two major events but there are plenty of other events and lovely places to see anyhow.
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photo by Ian of Estonia 2010

Uncyclopedia about Regions of England

Nothing as good as Estonia but
here you go

Quote 1:
" Lancastrians, so far removed from the others that scientists are considering changing their classification to a wholly different species".


Quote 2:
"Although claiming to be a separate country, the West-West country, locally known as Wales has in fact been owned by the British East India company"



http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Regions_of_England
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photo by Ian in Tartu University Museum 2010

Uncyclopedia About Estonia

Estonia, (pronounced Throat Wobbler Mangrove) commonly misspelled as Kohuke, Boneraniia, Stonia, Stanistan, Setomaa, e-Stonia, Elbonia, Estoina, Iceland, MiR, I'm stoned  or Australia, is the most important country in South-East-Western Afrasia, where everybody is stoned, being recognized by those with brains as the world's number one superpower because of its enormous army and cultural influence in the world, its colony Bolanga, and, last and definitely the least, because of its infamous  shashlyk. ...
More nice Uncyclopedic information here http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Estonia

Quite Creative :)
(and don't take it too seriously - Uncyclopedia is an encyclopedia full of misinformation and utter lies.)

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written by anonymous authors, copied by Katrin
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photo by Ian of the Estonian Independance Poem in Tallinn 2010