Wed, 2 July 2008  Hi there, this is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud. Well, we made it, here we are at episode 100! Did you ever think it would happen? We certainly had our doubts. It’s been so difficult for us to keep these programs coming that many times during the series we almost stopped. As a matter of fact, twice, I’d decided it was too much and I thought we were finished. It’s just such a big job, creating episodes on paper, writing them out, typing them up, rewriting them, retyping them, then finding time to record the episodes, tossing out entire recordings that were too poor to air, editing the recordings, cleaning up audio, moving sound bites around so it all makes sense, adding music, loading it up onto the internet with text and photos. It’s such a big time consumer. Photograph: Labunavos tvenkinys (pond) So, wonder why we do it all for free? Two major reasons, one, we started the series as a tool for me to learn Lithuanian – and I still need to learn it. The second reason is our community of listeners and all of your comments, plugs, emails, and new listeners joining the community every day. We’ve had over 120,000 total downloads and we are breaking 1,500 downloads a day. What can we say? You guys are super. You are one of the major reasons why we continue. Without you, Lithuanian Out Loud wouldn’t exist. We know you depend on us and so we feel a responsibility to keep the episodes coming. How could we possibly leave you hanging? Thanks for being there for us. So, I’d like to thank all of you for listening and for spending time with us. Above all, I want to thank the most perfect, the most intelligent, the most beautiful, engaging, interesting, the greatest woman I’ve ever met in my life, my wife Raminta. Thank you honey, you leave me breathless. Now, here’s another street recording asking passers-by about Lithuania. My apologies for the way this one was recorded. When I found out both guys here were from Spanish speaking countries I couldn’t help myself and I started to speak Spanish. Later, I regretted doing that since most of our community probably doesn’t speak Spanish. But, if you listen closely you’ll be able to make out these guys know the answers to all three questions. Where is Lithuania? What language do they speak there? What is the capital city? Great! Now, on with episode number 100 which Raminta and I recorded a few weeks ago. This episode covers the verbs gyventi and negyventi and it will be the pattern we’ll follow for future verb introductions. From here on out we’ll introduce a new verb, we’ll conjugate the verb, do many examples of the verb in sentences and we’ll negate this verb with examples. Then at the end we’ll go over the imperative that we introduced in episode 99. Now, let’s get started on the next 100 episodes and please, if you can, leave us a review on our iTunes page, we still don’t have 50 yet! Enjoy! Hi there, I’m Jack and I’m Raminta and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. According to Wikipedia, the Geographical Center of Europe monument is located in Lithuania. After an estimation of the boundaries of the continent of Europe in 1989 the French National Geographic Institute determined that the Geographic Center of Europe is located 26 kilometers north of its capital city, Vilnius, near the village of Purnuškės. A monument, composed by the sculptor Gediminas Jokūbonis and consisting of a column of white granite surmounted by a crown of stars, was erected at the location in 2004. This location is the only one listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the geographical center of Europe. 17 km away lies Europos Parkas, Open Air Museum of the Center of Europe, a sculpture park containing the world's largest sculpture made of TV sets, now partially collapsed. pradėkime, let’s get started Today we’ll go over the verb gyventi – to live. In episodes 0008 through 0013 we went over some uses of gyventi. Let’s dig into it some more, here are gyventi and negyventi conjugated in the present tense. to live gyventi vocabulary žodynas So, somebody can say, kodėl? – you can say, todėl! to pass, to spend praleisti miestelis, it’s like a small town? Yes, like Papilė. dormitory (dorm) bendrabutis okay, now let’s use these verbs in some examples examples - pavyzdžiai infinitive aš tu jis ji jūs (singular) jūs (plural) mes jie (m/m or m/f group) jos (female group only) and finally here are gyventi and negyventi using the imperative: live! gyvenk! Puiku! Excellent! You made it to the end of another episode! Puiku! Alright! That’s it for today! Thanks for the download! If you got anything out of this lesson please leave us a review on our iTunes page. Geographical centre of Europe http://www.Lithuanian.Libsyn.com Comments[2] |
Mon, 30 June 2008  Hi there, I’m Jack and I’m Raminta and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. Did you know Lithuania once had a dictator? At the end of World War One Lithuania was occupied by German soldiers. Lithuania declared its independence in 1918 and they left. In 1926 Antanas Smetona was one of the leaders of a military coup d'état. Lithuanian soldiers removed the democratically elected government, put the most conservative Lithuanian party in power, placed Antanas Smetona in the president’s chair and he ruled Lithuania until it was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1940. Photograph: Pond of the former Bečiai manor watermill, Vepriai elderate, Lithuania The dictatorship lasted for 14 years and all other political parties were outlawed. When the Soviet Union invaded in 1940 at the beginning of World War II they claimed they were doing Lithuanians a favor by defeating fascism. pradėkime, let’s get started Back in episode 0047 we learned two commands. Kiss me! Pabučiuok mane! Hug me! Apkabink mane! Today we’ll go over the imperative. We use the imperative to tell people or animals to do something. Such as, Look! Sit down! Come here! This stuff isn’t super difficult. Start with the infinitive of the verb, chop off the “t” – “i" or the “-ti” at the end of the verb and add “-k” or the Lithuanian letter “k.” the verb dirbti, to work, changes to dirbk! work! dirbk! dirbk! šok! žiūrėk! are all examples of how to command an individual using the “tu” form. We’d use this with a child, a close friend or an animal. To command a group of people or to give a command in a more polite way, we use jūs, we add –kite instead of just –k. work! dirbkite! lastly, to give a command to a group that we’re a part of, as in “us” or “we,” we add “–kime .” let’s work! dirbkime! Now, let’s practice with some examples. First, let’s do the familiar or “tu” form. We’ll say the verb in English, then the infinitive in Lithuanian. Then we’ll give the command in English and you try to guess the command in Lithuanian. Good luck! Sėkmės! to work dirbti Now let’s give the same commands to a person using the “jūs” form which is also the form we’d use giving a command to a group of people. work! dirbkite! and of course, in normal conversation we can drop the tail end -e look! žiūrėkit! Great! Now let’s give a command to a group of people to which we belong. These commands would be equivalent to, Let’s work! Let’s dance! Let’s run! let’s work! dirbkime! Nuostabu! Wonderful! You made it to the end of another episode! Nuostabu! Alright! That’s it for today! Thanks for the download! If you got anything out of this lesson please leave us a review on our iTunes page. Antanas Smetona http://www.Lithuanian.Libsyn.com
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Mon, 30 June 2008 Exam 24 a duke kunigaikštis I’m not a specialist aš nesu specialistas
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Mon, 30 June 2008 Exam 23 to go on foot eiti
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Sun, 29 June 2008  Hi there, I’m Raminta and I’m Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud. One fascinating location in Vilnius, Lithuania is the Green Bridge or Žaliasis tiltas not far from Pilies gatvė in the old town or senamiestis. There are four old Soviet statues on the bridge, two on the north end, two on the south end. Each statue has a unique theme, peace, youth, agriculture and industry. It’s a great place for a photo. Photograph: Green Bridge (Žaliasis tiltas), Vilnius, Lithuania. Photographer: Algirdas (Vikipedija) pradėkime, let’s get started Today we do unusual plural nouns. Remember masculine nouns have to be matched to masculine numbers and feminine nouns have to be matched to feminine numbers. sūnus is the Lithuanian word for son and it’s a masculine noun a son sūnus žmogus is the Lithuanian word for person and it’s a masculine noun a person žmogus The word for uncle is unusual – dėdė. This word looks feminine because it has a feminine ending but it’s masculine. an uncle dėdė stotis is the word for station, as in bus station or train station. This noun is unusual because it ends in the letter –s which makes it look masculine but it’s feminine. the station stotis moteris is the Lithuanian word for woman, it‘s unusual because it ends in the letter –s and it‘s feminine the woman moteris duktė is the word for daughter a daughter duktė Šaunu! Great! You made it to the end of another episode! Nuostabu! Wonderful! Alright! That’s it for today! Thanks for the download! If you got anything out of this lesson please leave us a review on our iTunes page. http://www.Lithuanian.Libsyn.com
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Sun, 29 June 2008 Exam 22 Hello on the phone klausau
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Sun, 29 June 2008 Exam 21 I’m planning to buy an auto aš planuoju pirkti automobilį to plan planuoti
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Fri, 27 June 2008  Septyni Akmenys Seven Stones Something you have to see in Vilnius are the, Gates of Dawn or Aušros Vartai. Between 1503 and 1522 the city was protected by a wall which included three towers and nine gates. This is the last of the nine gates to survive and it‘s beautiful. Photograph: Gate of Dawn, Vilnius, Lithuania dawn aušra --- pradėkime, let’s get started Alrighty! Now let’s continue working on plural nouns but today the nouns are a little unusual. These verbs end in –uo. Remember masculine nouns have to be matched to masculine numbers and feminine nouns have to be matched to feminine numbers. Akmuo is the Lithuanian word for stone. Most nouns that end in –uo are masculine and they have unusual endings in the plural. Thanks to Eglė Ribalkaitė of Klaipėda, Lithuania for reviewing this episode for errors. a stone akmuo dubuo is the word for bowl the bowl dubuo raumuo is the word for muscle the muscle raumuo ruduo is the word for autumn autumn ruduo asmuo is a word that means person a person asmuo šuo is the word for dog the dog šuo sesuo is unusual, it’s the word for sister and it’s the only feminine word that ends in –uo a sister sesuo Coming up we’ll continue with some more unusual nouns in the plural. Alright! That’s it for today! Thanks for the download! If you got anything out of this lesson please leave us a review on our iTunes page. The Gate of Dawn – Vilnius, Lithuania http://www.Lithuanian.Libsyn.com
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Fri, 27 June 2008 Exam 20 to Riga we went by bus į Rygą vykome autobusu
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Fri, 27 June 2008 Exam 19 the constitution is in the museum konstutucija muziejuje
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Wed, 25 June 2008  Hi there, I’m Jack and I’m Raminta and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. Today we’re in the month of June which in Lithuanian is birželis. Labai ačiū. O, prašom labai – with all my heart! Photograph: Kaunas Townhall (Kauno rotušė), Lithuania, 11 June 2006 Photographer: Creative (Vikipedija) A Danish company distributes a popular beer in Lithuania known as Kalnapilis. Do you like this beer? A lot! No! No, I don’t like beers. I’m not a b |
