Sun, 27 July 2008 Hi there, this is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud. Before we get on with today’s episode it’s time again for Agnė iš Vilniaus! Agnė says the idea today is to repeat a sentence that has many similar hard to pronounce sounds as quickly as you can. In English these are called tongue-twisters. Thanks for sending us this contribution Agne! It means a lot to us that you’re helping us out. Take it away, Agne! How quickly could you say that? Geri vyrai geroj girioj gerą girą gėrė gerdami gyrė Geri vyrai geroj girioj gerą girą gėrė gerdami gyrė It’s easy, isn’t it? But, what about that? Šešios žąsys su šešiais žąsyčiais Don’t worry if you don’t succeed the first time because most Lithuanians will say it like that… It’s okay, you need just some more practice and soon you will be able to say it like this: Šešios žąsys su šešiais žąsyčiais Good luck! Prašom, Mylimoji! Hi there, I’m Raminta and I’m Raminta’s husband, Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. Today we’re in the month of July which in Lithuanian is Liepa. An old Lithuanian tradition says if you light anything with a candle, a sailor dies. Why? Long ago in winter months sailors didn’t have much of an income and some sold matches to make ends meet. So, if you light something with a candle, you’re cheating a poor sailor out of his paycheck. Have you ever heard of this, Dear? pradėkime, let’s get started In past episodes we practiced a lot of possession using the genitive case or kilmininkas such as the man’s name, vyro vardas or the dog’s water, šuns vanduo. Today we’ll tackle the genitive in the plural such as the children’s dog, or a dog which belongs to many children, a children’s doctor, or a doctor who treats many children, a children’s book, the men’s restroom, the women’s team, women’s health. You’ll be happy to know it’s easily learned with little study. On this episode we’ll focus on masculine nouns, feminine nouns on a later episode. -as changes to –ų The most important thing to remember here is that the plural genitive always ends in -ų vocabulary – žodynas basketball krepšinis Keep in mind that ų nosinė and ū ilgoji sound the same; they both have the long -oo sound. For plural genitive we use ų nosinė to be grammatically correct. So, let’s go over some examples. Don’t worry about learning every word. We just want you to learn the genitive plural. man vyras a child vaikas an American male amerikietis a Lithuanian male lietuvis train traukinys So, we think you get the idea. Here are some more examples. an apple obuolys an actor aktorius a museum muziejus a stone akmuo the dog šuo automobile automobilis the ticket bilietas bus autobusas a bird paukštis Šaunu! Great! You made it to the end of another episode! Nuostabu! Wonderful! 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. http://www.Lithuanian.Libsyn.com Comments[0] |
Sun, 20 July 2008 Hey, hey, hey! This is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud! We’ve got some great stuff for you today including an awesome installment of Agnė iš Vilniaus. But before we get to it… I forgot to mention on the last episode that we now have free pdf files for every episode of Lithuanian Out Loud on our blogpage. A pdf file is simply a downloadable print version of our programs. You can go to the page and download them or get them automatically using iTunes. If you don’t have iTunes on your computer you should get it, it’s completely free. One our listeners is Jim from Delaware. Jim has created a chat room using Skype and it’s called "Learning to speak Lithuanian for English speakers.” From what I understand this is a tool that beginner, intermediate and advanced speakers can use to practice Lithuanian. Jim is inviting native speakers to join the chat room if they like. We’ll post the web address of Jim’s chat room on the Lithuanian Out Loud blogpage. Good luck with your project, Jim! Today we have something special for our listeners. Along with this episode I’ll include a downloadable electronic book that Andrius Repsys of Šiauliai, Lithuania is offering to everyone for free. This is an awesome professional looking book that you can download to your computer, open and view. It’s got tons of interesting facts about Lithuania including pictures, graphics and text. You have to download it and look at it, you won’t regret taking the time. Andrius Repsys is an artist from www.qhoto.net and not only has he done a fantastic job with his book, he was kind enough to give Lithuanian Out Loud some free advertising by placing our name on each page of his book. Labai ačiū, Andriau! That was a kind gesture. Finally, we have some listeners who are traveling in Lithuania and some who live there. We’d like to invite all of you to post your experiences on the Lithuanian Out Loud blogpage. Have you had any interesting experiences? Good or bad, doesn’t matter. Have you learned any interesting words or phrases? How are your travels? As expected? Better? Worse? Just post your comments on the blogpage. Our community would love to read them. Alright, now here’s Agnė iš Vilniaus with an unbelieveable contribution! Take it away Agne! Hello, I am Agnė. Even if you don’t know Lithuanian well, this song could be just the right thing for you to start singing Lithuanian. Because this song has two voices and one of them is really, really, really simple. It would be like this… Tumba tumbararasa Actually, this tumbararasa doesn’t mean anything. It’s just made to keep the rhythm. Let’s repeat once more… Tumba tumbararasa Now, you will continue like this and I will add another voice, okay, so you are continuing this fragment of tumbararasa and let Lithuanians do the rest. Just totally relax, okay? Let’s start! Tumba tumbararasa and after this we need to learn the second part of this song which would be like this… Oi lylia oi lylia, oi lylia oi lylia Oi lylia oi lylia, oi lylia oi lylia Ready to repeat? Okay, let’s start…one, two, three… Oi lylia oi lylia, oi lylia oi lylia Oi lylia oi lylia, oi lylia oi lylia Oi lylia also means nothing, no meaning, but dainuok linksmai, dainuoti – to sing and linksmai – cheerfully, joyfully. So, dainuok linksmai would be, sing cheerfully. So, now let’s put together all the song. Just mixing first part, second part, first part, second part and see what happens. Ready! Let’s go! Tumba tumbararasa Ėjo senis lauko arti, pasiėmęs pypkę karčią Oi lylia oi lylia, oi lylia oi lylia Oi lylia oi lylia, oi lylia oi lylia Ėjo boba tuo keleliu, rado pypkę ant kelmelio Oi lylia oi lylia, oi lylia oi lylia Oi lylia oi lylia, oi lylia oi lylia Oi tu boba nekvailioki, man pypkutę atiduoki Oi lylia oi lylia, oi lylia oi lylia Oi lylia oi lylia, oi lylia oi lylia That was super Agne! What an awesome performance! Thank you for taking the time to record this, transcribe it for us, send it to us and allow us to share it with the world. Your contribution is priceless! Ačiū milijoną kartų. Thanks a million times. --- 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 July which in Lithuanian is liepa. Okay, I think we all agree that Lithuania is not one of the largest nations in the world. But, the next time you’re tempted to say Lithuania is a small country, think about this. Lithuania is larger than Denmark. It’s bigger than Taiwan, Netherlands, and Belgium. So, whenever I hear anyone mention Lithuania is small, I just tell them it’s not that small. It’s bigger than Switzerland. Today we’ll learn a new declension… Pradėkime, let’s get started! Oh! Good idea, we should get started first! Today we’ll learn a new declension. It’s called the vocative or šauksmininkas. Šaukti is the verb, to shout. Šauksmininkas is the declension we use when we’re shouting at someone, when we’re speaking to someone, when we’re addressing someone or when we just want to get their attention. Šauksmininkas is not difficult. The declensions are simple, except for words that end in –as. So, we’ll start with the words that end in –as and the rest will be easy. Romas! Romai! Vladas, Vladas, I like this word Vladas. Pretty name! But, I don’t think it’s Lithuanian. Vladas - Vladimir, it seems – Russian. If a person’s first or last name ends in –as, then –as changes to –ai. Jonas, look there! Jonai, žiūrėkite ten! If a noun, which is not somebody’s name ends in –as, it changes to –e. For example, the word for sir or mister is ponas. mister ponas Let’s get his attention. mister! pone! The word for father is tėvas. father tėvas Technically, you could talk to a mountain if you like. Good morning, Mountain! Labas rytas, Kalne! Previously we went over professions such as padėjėjas - assistant or gydytojas – doctor. If a noun ends with a suffix such as –tojas or –ėjas then this suffix changes to –tojau and –ėjau. Doctor, I feel bad Gydytojau, aš jaučiuosi blogai If a word ends in a diminutive such as –ukas or –iukas as in the diminutive names Justukas or Petriukas, just drop the –as. Justukas! Justuk! So, there are the words that end in –as. Big job! All the rest are simple. Here are the rest of the masculine words… If a word ends in –is the suffix changes to -i! Jurgis! Jurgi! There aren’t many words that end in –uo but here are three… Person! –as in asmuo Asmenie! The feminine nouns are extremely easy. If a word ends in –a the suffix changes to -a! Mrs. Malinauskienė! Ponia Malinauskiene! Žąsis is the word for goose. Antis is the word for a duck. We’ll use these two words here since they’re unusual. They end in the letter “s” but they are feminine words. Go away goose! Eik šalin žąsie! 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. To join Jim's Lithuanian Chat Room email him at: In the subject line of your email to Jim type: Request Lithuanian chat link http://www.Lithuanian.Libsyn.com Comments[4] |
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Sat, 12 July 2008 Hi there! This is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud! Well, a lot has been happening since our last show. Before today’s episode I want to get you caught up with the latest news. At least four news portals picked up a news article on Lithuanian Out Loud and we have many new listeners to our podcast. Also, it looks like some magazines might be doing some stories as well. Super! Welcome to all our new listeners! If you’d like to see the internet articles on Lithuanian Out Loud you can see the links on this episode’s notes on our blogpage. A big thanks to Deimantė Doksaitė for interviewing Raminta and me and for writing the story. Labai ačiū, Deimante! (internet stories on Lithuanian Out Loud) Lietuviams.com Alfa.lt Delfi Anglija.lt Remember the plug Bayram of Turkey gave us recently? Well, he just sent me an email. He was in Vilnius today in a coffee shop working on his computer and he heard a familiar voice. He went up to the woman and asked her some questions and then gave her a big hug. Raminta was really surprised someone had recognized her voice while she was chatting with a friend in a Vilnius coffee shop. What a coincidence! Thanks for the email Bayram! Today we have a special guest on the show. Someone who might be contributing something to Lithuanian Out Loud on a regular basis for a long time to come – I hope. So, here is Agnė from Vilnius or Agnė iš Vilniaus and her first contribution to the show. "čiau braške, susitiksim kompote" Agnė says this phrase is used by a lot by children in Lithuania to say goodbye. The literal translation isn’t really important, it’s better to learn this as a whole phrase, but for those of you who are curious it means, "goodbye, strawberry, see you in kompotas." Kompotas is a Lithuanian stewed fruit drink – very yummy. Here is it again, slowly… čiau braške, susitiksim kompote čiau braške, susitiksim kompote čiau braške, susitiksim kompote čiau braške, susitiksim kompote Again, Agnė says children use this a lot but adults use it as a joke or in order to sound funny. Try it on your Lithuanian friends. Agnė has a few hundred ideas on future contributions to the show and we love having her enthusiasm in our community. Thanks a million, Agne and welcome to the program! It’s super having you here with us. Okay, enough notes, let’s get on with today’s episode, enjoy! --- Hi there, I’m Raminta and I’m Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. Today we’re in a new month! July was named for Julius Caesar or Julijus Cezaris who was born in this month. In Lithuanian this month is liepa, the linden tree, which flowers during this month. The flowers scent the air, are used to make herbal teas and attract honeybees. Pretty tree! According to Wikipedia, Austėja is the ancient Lithuanian household goddess of bees. Austėja is a goddess of fertility, brides, and growing families. Austėja is the wife of Bubilas. Bubilas is the household god of bees. People may have sacrificed honey to Bubilas. They believed that doing so would make bees swarm better. pradėkime, let’s get started Today let’s talk about work. Here’s a Lithuanian proverb: Kas skaito ir rašo, tas duonos neprašo. He who learns to read and write will not beg for bread. Most of the time a person’s job has the suffix –tojas or –toja, –ėjas or –ėja, and –ininkas or –ininkė. Here we’ll list some infinitive verbs and then we’ll list the job title that follows it. to work dirbti The last three professions we purposely put together because they look and sound so similar. It’s worth the effort to memorize these. padėjėjas padėjėja Now some job titles that don’t follow these rules… to lead vadovauti Now, just before we finish, let’s combine some of these. To do this we have to use kilmininkas. a lawyer’s female assistant advokato padėjėja 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. Austėja (wikipedia) http://www.Lithuanian.Libsyn.com Comments[12] |
Fri, 11 July 2008 Exam 25. Dvidešimt penktas egzaminas. This is a quick response episode! We’ll say the word or phrase in English - you say it in Lithuanian – Out Loud! It’s too late for questions, the exam starts now. Ready, set, go! Pasiruošti, dėmesio, marš! to speak kalbėti Comments[0] |
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. 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[25] |
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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. 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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