This presentation focuses on computer-assisted learning of Estonian, one of the lesser taught European languages belonging to the Finno-Ugric language family. Impulses for this paper came from Estonian courses that started in the University of Tartu in 2010, 2011 and 2012. In all the courses the students gain introductory knowledge of Estonian and develop active skills in Estonian. E-courses include asynchronous learning activities available in Moodle and the synchronous computer mediated communication via Skype. This provides the learners with the flexibility of perfonning drill and practice tasks at one’s own pace as well as communicating extensively through the computer. This presentation addresses the linguistic challenges that the students face. The special linguistic characteristics of Estonian that make its learning and teaching via the Internet different from learning other languages will be discussed. The short overview also discusses the attitudes of the students towards the computer-assisted Estonian courses and considers both the positive and negative aspects of Internet-based language learning. Data was collected via a questionnaire survey.