Sat, 30 August 2008 Hi, this is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud. This week we have two new verbs for you with lots of examples. After the examples we go through a list of new words in vardininkas to help you understand all of the example sentences. We’ve also got another super contribution done by Agnė iš Vilniaus. Thanks again Agnė, you’re awesome, please keep them coming. I know everyone listening is really enjoying them. Also, we’re up to 32 positive reviews on our iTunes page. If you’d like to help us get to our goal of 50 reviews, we’d really love to get some more from you. So please, help us out if you can. Before we get started with today’s Lithuanian, here is some input from Nicolas. Thanks for the input and we’ll try to keep the grammar coming for you. Specifically, what are you looking for? Please let us know. Hey Jack and Raminta, this is Nicolas, I’m calling from the Netherlands, but I’m originally from Colombia, I just wanted to tell you that your lessons have been very, very helpful. I’m learning Lithuanian because I have a girlfriend from there…and I basically wanted to learn her language which is proving very difficult for now but your lessons have been very, very helpful. I was wondering if maybe you could help with some of the grammar sheets, I’m only starting your lessons but it’s probably one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to learn in Lithuanian. So, if you could upload some of the basic grammar stuff, or more advanced grammar if you want to, that’d be great and of course you can use this feedback in your show. Thank you very much and I hope we’ll get to talk to you again, bye bye. Sveiki, aš Agnė. I know a lot of students are struggling with this, so let's practice. There are nine dvibalsiai in Lithuanian: let's try to repeat each of them slowly: If the stress is on the letter i, it sounds like this: vaikas, baigti, Klaipėda, laikas the second diphthong… the next one… ie - like in theater - pieva, vienas, miestas, Dievas oi - like in boy - oi, boikotas ou - like in home - klounas, šou uo - about the same as in watch... - uodas, duona, šuo, duoti ui - like in ruin - muilas, buivolas, luitas, muitas Congratulations, you went through all the nine diphthongs. So let's repeat all of them once more: Sometimes you can find three vowels in one place, starting with -i-: iai, iau, but it could be helpful for you to know, that "iai" is pronounced almost the same as "ei", and iau - as "eu": for example… That's it for today :) Enjoy practicing :) Mėgti – to like Hi there, I’m Raminta and I’m Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. According to Wikipedia, Lithuania's special animals include the wolf (vilkas) and the bear (lokys). According to a popular legend, an iron wolf in Gediminas' dream encouraged the Grand Duke to establish Vilnius and make the city his capital. The Iron Wolf Mechanised Infantry Brigade (motorizuotoji pėstininkų brigada 'Geležinis vilkas') is now the core unit of the Lithuanian Army. The bear is an ancient symbol of Žemaitija, one of the regions of Lithuania, and appears in the coat of arms of Šiauliai district as well. An elk is shown in the Lazdijai district municipality coat of arms. Today we‘ll learn another way to say, for example, “I like Lithuania“ using a different verb – mėgti. I like Lithuania man patinka Lietuva So, you could say it either way? Man patinka would be more common. Aš mėgstu – kind of strange. Oh, then we need a different example. Mėgstu Lietuvą, not a good idea. What would you say is a good example? Man patinka ir aš mėgstu for the same thing? Aha, man patinka…kava? Yeah, man patinka kava, aš mėgstu kavą. Right, okay. Today we‘ll learn another way to say, for example, “I like coffee“ using a different verb – mėgti. I like coffee man patinka kava The difference between the verbs patikti and mėgti is that patikti is not a strong liking of something. Mėgti expresses a deeper emotion. When you use mėgti you‘re saying you deeply like something. Mėgti is a transitive verb so we decline the object of the sentence using the accusative case or galininkas. Nemėgti declines using the genitive case or kilmininkas. The verb mėgti is always used with accusative. Aš mėgstu kriaušę – I like the pear. prašom pakartoti, please repeat… to like mėgti I like aš mėgstu to not like nemėgti I do not like aš nemėgstu aš tu jis ji mes jūs jūs jie jos imperative – so, these might sound a little bit odd as imperatives or as commands but here they are: tu mėk! tu nemėk! and now, here are some miscellaneous examples... I like to disappoint aš mėgstu nuvilti vocabulary žodynas a fish žuvis Šaunu! Great! You made it to the end of another episode! Puiku! Excellent! You’re the greatest, Dear! Thank you! Symbols of Lithuania 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[7] |
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Tue, 26 August 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. According to the Wikipedia page, List of Lithuanian Gods; Teliavelis was a powerful smith who made the sun and threw it into the sky. This myth survived in folk tales up to the beginning of 20th century. In the last few episodes we learned how to use the accusative plural and genitive plural in conjunction with a transitive verb – valgyti – to eat. But, we only did masculine nouns. Today we’ll use some feminine nouns. Feminine nouns are declined in the plural accusative like this: words that end in –a change to –as now let’s go over some examples… a carrot morka a sausage dešra a pizza pica a potato bulvė a vegetable daržovė (now a conversation on whether or not people should eat squirrels - voverės) keep in mind when you say aš valgau, you’re saying I eat or I am eating, jis valgo, he eats or he is eating, mes valgome, we eat or we are eating. Also, if this all seems difficult, don’t worry, we plan to do hundreds or even thousands of examples using many, many verbs to make this easier for you. Puiku! Excellent! You made it to the end of another episode! Puiku! List of Lithuanian Gods http://www.Lithuanian.Libsyn.com Comments[2] |
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Sun, 24 August 2008 Hi there, this is Jack, and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud. Before we get to today’s episode, here’s another fabulous installment of Agnė iš Vilniaus. Take it away, Agne! Sveiki, aš Agnė iš Vilniaus. Hi, I’m Agnė from Vilnius. Today I will share with you some interesting phrases you can use with your Lithuanian friends. If you're hungry just tell your friend, aš alkanas kaip vilkas or aš alkanas kaip šuo. alkanas or alkana mean hungry vilkas is a wolf and šuo is a dog let's say it one time slowly but only a male would say alkanas, let's say it at normal speed, repeat after me aš alkana kaip vilkas aš alkanas kaip šuo Hi there, I’m Raminta, hi there, I’m Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. According to the free encyclopedia Wikipedia, a pre-Christian Lithuanian tradition of the summer equinox was a time of great festivals. The festivities included singing songs and dancing until sunset. Old stories were told and at midnight Lithuanians would search the forests for the magic fern blossom. People would jump over fires and in the morning the midsummer sun was greeted with a face washing ceremony using the morning dew. Young girls would float flower wreaths on the water of a river or lake. Rasa is the Lithuanian word for dew and this annual festival was known as Rasos – the Dew Festival. After the arrival of Christianity the day was renamed Joninės. Today’s episode will basically mirror the last episode covering valgyti but this will be nevalgyti – to not eat. When you use a transitive verb the object of the sentence is declined using the accusative case or galininkas. For example, I eat the banana. Banana is the object that receives the action of the verb, to eat. So, banana is declined using galininkas. The object that receives the action of a negated verb is declined using kilmininkas or the genitive case. The genitive singular and genitive plural were covered in episodes 0022, 0030, 0031, 0033, 0037, 0039, and 0050. now let’s conjugate nevalgyti – to not eat I do not eat aš nevalgau now let’s make some sentences using nevalgyti. a banana bananas the mushroom grybas an egg kiaušinis a sandwich or hamburger sumuštinis an apple obuolys a crab krabas eel ungurys a perch (a species of fish) ešerys 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. Joninės http://www.Lithuanian.Libsyn.com Comments[2] |
Sun, 17 August 2008 Hi there, this is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud, a lot of flavor, zero calories. Before we start today’s episode, just wanted to mention a couple of things. As of this recording the Lithuanian basketball team has won four games at the Beijing Olympics and lost none. Could this be the Olympic Games where they win the gold medal? I’m rooting for Lithuania! Valio, valio, valio! Now, here’s another Agnė iš Vilniaus contribution. Agnė says every Lithuanian aged three and older knows this song by heart. I looked for this song on Youtube and added links on the Lithuanian Out Loud blogpage so you can see the song with a video. Click on the links, I think you’ll enjoy them. Of course, if you want to see the lyrics to the song, you can read them on the show notes on the blogpage or you can get them off the episode pdf. Labai ačiū, Agne! You’ve created another fantastic contribution! You’re super! Du gaideliai (two little roosters) Du gaideliai, du gaideliai, Ožys malė, ožys malė, Musė maišė, musė maišė, translation: Two little roosters, two little roosters A goat (male) was grinding, a goat was grinding A fly was mixing, a fly was mixing, Du gaideliai tramvajuje Du gaideliai (in Iceland) Du Gaideliai by 'Merkuijus' 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 the month of August which in Lithuanian is rugpjūtis. Lietuvos zoologijos sodas is the only zoo in Lithuania. It’s located in Kaunas and it has over 2,000 animals and 270 species. doughnut spurga According to Radio Vilnius & Current Affairs of February 2008, a woman who was in charge of the animal cages was attacked by a bear that had escaped. Her screams attracted the attention of a man who was in the parking lot and he scared the 70 kilo or 154 pound bear off. The woman was hospitalized. In early February a zookeeper was gored by a musk ox. The man’s life couldn’t be saved. According to the Associated Press back in May of 2007 three university students climbed into a giraffe’s pen at night. The giraffe defended itself and stomped on 22 year-old Ruta Greičiutė, breaking her nose and collarbone. --- Back in episode 0059 we introduced the accusative case or galininkas. Today we’ll start in on the plural accusative or accusative plural. To do this let’s introduce a new verb – valgyti – to eat. When you use a transitive verb the object of the sentence is declined using the accusative case or galininkas. For example, I eat the banana. Banana is a singular object that receives the action of the verb, to eat. So, banana is declined using galininkas. You know the verb is transitive when you see the object receives the action of the verb. I open the window – the object, window is receiving the action of the verb, to open. Sonata drives the car. The object – the car is receiving the action of the verb, to drive. now let’s conjugate valgyti – to eat I eat aš valgau We’ve already gone over the accusative singular in previous episodes. I’m eating an egg is the accusative singular. I’m eating a single egg. I’m eating one egg. The egg is the object that receives the action of the verb – to eat. I’m eating the eggs or I’m eating two eggs is the accusative plural. The plural object – eggs – are receiving the action of the verb – to eat. In this episode we’ll focus on the accusative plural such as, I’m eating eggs or he’s eating mushrooms. Here are some of the plural accusative endings. Today we’re going to do only masculine nouns. Words that end in… -as change to –us Now let’s make some sentences using valgyti. Keep in mind that in Lithuanian to say aš valgau can mean I eat or I am eating, tu eini, you walk or you are walking. a banana bananas Some say Lithuanian is hard. Hmmm. Don’t worry if this episode seems difficult. Assuming we keep these podcasts coming for thousands of episodes, we plan to do a single episode for every new verb we introduce. Of course, there are thousands of verbs to cover so you’ll get tons of practice just like here with the verb valgyti. a mushroom grybas Attention! Dėmesio! Something else to keep in mind when conjugating any verb. You don’t need to say “aš valgau” since valgau makes - aš - obvious. You can just say, valgau. The word aš is not necessary unless you want to use it for emphasis. Same goes for tu valgai, “tu” isn’t necessary – you can simply say, “valgai,” tu is understood. Valgome is the same, you don’t need to say mes. Valgote is also the same, you don’t need to say jūs. In these examples the pronoun is unnecessary. an egg kiaušinis a sandwich or hamburger sumuštinis an apple obuolys a crab krabas an eel ungurys 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. Kaunas Zoo http://www.Lithuanian.Libsyn.com Comments[4] |
Sun, 10 August 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 August which in Lithuanian is - rugpjūtis. The Stelmužė Oak or in Lithuanian; Stelmužės ąžuolas is an oak tree which is growing in the former Stelmužė Manor Park. The oak reaches 23 meters in height and only side branches remain alive. It is believed to be at least 1,500 years old, possibly, as many as 2,000 years old; this makes it the oldest oak in Lithuania and one of the oldest in Europe. However, exact measurements of age are difficult as the inner part of the trunk has been removed. The oak is a nature heritage object in Lithuania and is the best known tree in the country. pradėkime, let’s get started This episode is based on a phone conversation Raminta and I had months ago but we’re only now getting around to putting it together. First, here is the audio from the phone call… O mano diena buvo ilga, važiavau į Klaipėdą autobusu, ahhh...., turėjau viešnagę Klaipėdoje, aplankiau brolius, registravau mašiną ir grįžau su mašina į Vilnių, pasiėmiau iš draugės šunį, ir grįžau visa pavargus namo. Now Raminta will repeat her words slowly with a translation. O mano diena buvo ilga, važiavau į Klaipėdą autobusu, turėjau viešnagę Klaipėdoje, aplankiau brolius, registravau mašiną ir grįžau su mašina į Vilnių, pasiėmiau iš draugės šunį, ir grįžau visa pavargus namo. O, aš tokia laiminga, aš turiu naują automobilį. Aš laiminga, aš džiaugiuosi, parskridau kaip vėjas iš Klaipėdos į Vilnių. Aš labai laiminga turėdama automobilį, negaliu sulaukti rytojaus kada galėsiu vairuoti į parką pasivaikščioti su šuneliu. O rytoj važiuosiu į Trakus su Antiku ir Dovile. Lietuviai turi tokią tradiciją, nusipirkę naują automobilį atidaryti šampano butelį ir aplaistyti automobilį šampanu. my day was long mano diena buvo ilga Puiku! Excellent! You made it to the end of another episode! Puiku! Stelmužė 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, 10 August 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 August which in Lithuanian is - rugpjūtis. According to the free encyclopedia Wikipedia page, List of Cities in Lithuania, Lithuania has 103 cities. The term city is defined by the Parliament of Lithuania as compact areas populated by more than 3,000 people of whom at least two thirds work in the industry or service sector. Those settlements which have a population of less than 3,000 but historically had city status are still considered as towns. Even smaller settlements or villages are called kaimas. Often the official status is not clear and people refer to both towns and villages as gyvenvietė which in essence means, settlement. Here are some words on this theme… vocabulary - žodynas city miestas pradėkime, let’s get started Long ago we learned how to use the genitive case or kilmininkas in order to express where we’re from. I’m from Vilnius, aš iš Vilniaus, she’s from Klaipėda, ji yra iš Klaipėdos. Now we know how to use the genitive plural. The fourth largest city in Lithuania is Šiauliai. Šiauliai, like many cities in Lithuania has a plural name. Here are some examples… Šiauliai iš kur, translates as “from where.” where are you from? iš kur jūs esate? Now let’s go over some examples of people saying, I’m from Šiauliai, I’m from Druskininkai, or they’re from Trakai, etcetera. Where are you from? iš kur tu esi? 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. List of Cities in Lithuania http://www.Lithuanian.Libsyn.com Comments[0] |
Sun, 3 August 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 a new month! August was named in honor of Augustus Caesar in the year eight before the common era (8 BCE). In Lithuanian this month is rugpjūtis, named after the word for rye, rugiai and pjauti, to cut. It’s rye cutting month. Here’s some food for thought. I remind people not to refer to Lithuania as a former part of the Soviet Union. Calling Lithuania a nation that was once part of the Soviet Union or as the former Soviet Republic Lithuania sounds like Lithuania and Russia went through an amical divorce. It’s like saying to a Frenchman or Dutchman, hey, aren’t you guys formerly part of the Nazi Empire? Nah, don’t do it, it won’t make you any new friends. pradėkime, let’s get started In past episodes we practiced a lot of possession using the genitive case or kilmininkas such as the wife’s name, žmonos vardas, or Eglė’s husband, Eglės vyras. Today we’ll tackle the genitive in the plural such as the women’s restroom, or the restroom of many women, the countries‘ history, as in the history of many countries, the car factory, or the factory which has many cars. You’ll be happy to know it’s easily learned with little study. On this episode we’ll focus on feminine nouns. feminine nouns end like this… -a changes to –ų The most important thing to remember here is that the plural genitive always ends in -ų vocabulary - žodynas factory gamykla 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 ending. the car mašina a sculpture skulptūra a bee bitė the store parduotuvė woman moteris a country šalis a rowboat valtis a daughter duktė sister sesuo 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 Comments[0] |
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