LITHUANIAN OUT LOUD

Thu, 10 September 2009

Exam 49
Keturiasdešimt devintas egzaminas. This is a quick response episode! We’ll say the word or phrase in English and you say it in Lithuanian – Out Loud! It’s too late for questions, the exam starts now. Ready, set, go! Pasiruošti, dėmesio, marš!

basketball                        krepšinis
health                             sveikata
the music                        muzika
tradition                          tradicija
the male doctor                gydytojas
the culture                       kultūra
hospital                           ligoninė
the territory                    teritorija
the history                      istorija
a system                        sistema
a pie                               pyragas
juice                               sultys
group                             grupė
school                             mokykla
director                           direktorius
association                       asociacija
exhibition                         paroda
food                                maistas
booth                             kasa
sanctuary                       šventovė
the flu                           gripas
man                               vyras
men                               vyrai
a men’s restroom             vyrų tualetas
men’s basketball             vyrų krepšinis
men’s health                   vyrų sveikata
a child                            vaikas
children                          vaikai
the children’s dog             vaikų šuo
a children’s doctor            vaikų gydytojas
a children’s book              vaikų knyga
a children’s hospital          vaikų ligoninė
an American male            amerikietis
the American males          amerikiečiai
the American’s auto         amerikiečių automobilis
the American’s music       amerikiečių muzika
the American’s history      amerikiečių istorija
a Lithuanian male             lietuvis
the Lithuanians                 lietuviai
Lithuanian‘s history          lietuvių istorija
Lithuanian‘s culture          lietuvių kultūra
Lithuanian tradition           lietuvių tradicija
train                                 traukinys
trains                                traukiniai
trains’ station or
the train station                traukinių stotis
train system                     traukinių sistema

Direct download: LL0169.mp3
Category: Language Course -- posted at: 8:57 PM

Comments[8]

Exam 49
Keturiasdešimt devyntas egzaminas.

klaida, turėtų būti devintas, ne devyntas.

Sekmės darbe ir moksle. :)

posted by: aleksandras on Tue, 9/15 05:07 PM EDT

Aleksandrai!

Oho! Labai ačiu! Mano kaltė.

Geros dienos! :)

posted by: Jack on Tue, 9/15 06:26 PM EDT

My daughter is saying "Welcome" in Lithuanian for Special Others Day at school. She is of Lithuanian decent, however no one is alive anymore who can help us.
I have found that it is "Sveiki Atvyke" Can you help us with a phonetic pronouncation?

posted by: Loreen on Mon, 9/21 08:07 PM EDT

Labas, Loreen,
I can do you one better. Just go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZW1VKvTG9I

This is a Lithuanian pop music song. The song is called "sveiki atvyke" and they must repeat the phrase 20-30 times. If your daughter listens to this entire video just once, I don't think she'll ever forget how to pronounce the phrase.

~ Jack :)

posted by: Jack on Mon, 9/21 08:09 PM EDT

Hello there,

My great-grandfather left Lithuania to come to Chicago and work in the stockyards about a year before Russia invaded, and was never able to go home. As Americans tend to do, our family lost the language, but then our cousin, who is a nun at St Casimir in Chicago, ran into our distant family in Vilnius while she was on a mission. Hurray!

So my aunt and I planned a trip to our motherland. I bought "Teach Yourself Lithuanian" which taught me enough Lithuanian to be polite and show the relatives that I wanted to greet them in their language, but I sure wish that I found this blog before I left. My pronunciation was incorrect, and I'm a little embarrassed in retrospect. One of the cousins learned a good deal of English, and kept smiling when I spoke Lithuanian. I urged him to correct me when I misspoke, but he just grinned and said that the family was happy - Americans usually don't take the time to learn at all.

I'm looking forward to my next trip to Vilnius, and listening to your lessons from the beginning. I'm up to #16, so I have some catching up to do, but it's a tremendous resource. Thank you both for putting so much time into this work.

Corinne

posted by: Corinne on Mon, 9/21 08:12 PM EDT

Labas, Corinne!

Thanks for the great email. I'll post it on the website. It's great to hear how people are using our podcasts. Have a great time in Lithuania, hopefully you'll be there in the summer. I can't wait to go back again.

Iki :)

posted by: Jack on Mon, 9/21 08:15 PM EDT

I have just found your site and am so excited. I grew up in Northern Ontario with parents Lithuanian and German who immigrated right after the war. Since it was necessary for my parents to learn English we were not encouraged to speak either Lithuanian or German. By the time it was acceptable and we were living in Toronto, we (children) were not interested in learning what we thought was a dead language! I am most interested now at 55 to learn more about my heritage and some of the language. Thank you for your wonderful site.

posted by: ALDONA on Tue, 9/22 12:37 PM EDT

Labas, Aldona!
Thanks for the post. We love to hear from and learn about our listeners. We hope the series is helpful.
~ Jack :)

posted by: Jack on Tue, 9/22 01:45 PM EDT

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