Hi there, this is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud. On previous episodes Raminta and I went over the nationalities of some of our listeners. We named the countries, named nationalities and drank toasts to the countries. Since then we’ve added many listeners from many nations around the world. Today we want to catch up our listeners from these nations by doing the same for them. Just so you know, we recorded this a few weeks ago and since then some more listeners in other nations join...
Dec 09, 2008•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hi there, this is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud. Today we’re in a new month! In Latin Decem means ten. December was the tenth month in the old Roman calendar. Later, when January and February were added it became the 12th month but retained its old name. In Lithuanian this month is gruodis from the word gruodas which roughly translates as “frozen mud clod.” In this month the mud choked dirt roads are made passable again as the ground freezes. According to a Baltic Times article en...
Dec 02, 2008•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hi there, this is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud. For this episode we’re going to do something a little bit different. This is a flashcard episode. To use this episode you have to download the accompanying pdf file and open it. Then just follow along with the audio. The pdf file has four pages. On the first two pages we give you the English and the Lithuanian text along with an image from the public domain clip art collection at WP Clipart. Thank you WP Clipart! The third and fourt...
Dec 01, 2008•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Download the pdf file for episode 137 here:
Nov 30, 2008•Transcript available on Metacast Hi there, this is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud. Today’s episode is not much of an episode. Raminta and I are starting to put together some episodes that are centered around common conversations. For instance, today’s script was supposed to go something like this… (good day) laba diena (good day) labą dieną Two for lunch, please Three persons? No, just two There’s about a 15 minute wait Okay, that’s fine Name? Kšanytė Kšanytė…okay, we’ll call your name when your table is ready Oh,...
Nov 29, 2008•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Exam 37 Trisdešimt septintas 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! daughter duktė / dukra in Lithuania Lietuvoje I have a wife aš turiu žmoną I have a question aš turiu klausimą do you have a car? (tu) ar tu turi automobilį? do you have a passport? (tu) ar tu turi pasą? he has a problem jis turi problemą he has a fema...
Nov 28, 2008•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast LL0134 – Exam 36 Trisdešimt šeštas 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! all visas / visa to Lithuania į Lietuvą I’m returning to Lithuania aš grįžtu į Lietuvą I returning to the fatherland aš grįžtu į tėvynę our mūsų family šeima to hope for tikėti to return sugrįžti to end, to finish pabaigti to finish baigti studie...
Nov 27, 2008•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey there! This is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud. Today we have a special program with a special guest co-host. Raminta and I invited Kristina to come on the show and do an episode. Kristina is orginally from Klaipėda, Lithuania but she is currently studying at a university in Aberdeen, Scotland. Kristina is the famous Kristina of the Lithuanian tutorials on Youtube. She is the author and star of some great free videos teaching Lithuanian to English speakers. Raminta and I highly ...
Nov 18, 2008•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Exam 35 Trisdešimt penktas 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! it is a pity that gaila kad it’s a pity gaila what a pity! kaip gaila! it is a great pity labai gaila to leave išvažiuoti to cease nutrūkti to not be enough, to lack pritrūkti Sonata’s and my friendship ended nutrūko mano ir Sonatos draugystė our communi...
Nov 17, 2008•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Prašom Palaukti Please Wait 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 November which in Lithuanian is lapkritis. According to Wikipedia, Eglė the Queen of Serpents is considered one of the most archaic and best-known Lithuanian fairy tales and the richest in references of Baltic mythology. Over a hundred slightly diverging versions of the plot have been collected. Its multi-layered myth...
Nov 16, 2008•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Click below to download the pdf show notes for episodes 0121-0130
Nov 15, 2008•Transcript available on Metacast Miesteliuose In The Towns Hi there, I’m Jack and I’m Raminta and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. In Latin novem is the word for nine. Today we’re in a new month! In the old Roman calender November was the ninth month. In Lithuanian this month is lapkritis – derived from lapas, the word for leaf and kristi, to fall. Lapkritis is leaf falling month. According to Wikipedia, in Lithuania trees of special significance include oak (ąžuolas), birch ...
Nov 08, 2008•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Trisdešimt ketvirtas 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! to lack trūkti missing, lacking trūkstamas we also miss Lithuania very much mums taip pat labai trūksta Lietuvos we also lack a car mums taip pat trūksta mašinos we also lack a ticket mums taip pat trūksta bilieto though, although nors often dažnai to associat...
Nov 07, 2008•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mano Tavo Jo Jos - Hi there, I’m Jack and I’m Raminta and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. The Lithuanian national flag is the tricolor of yellow, green and red. The yellow represents the golden fields of Lithuanian grain, the green represents the green countryside of Lithuania and red represents the blood that has been shed on Lithuanian soil. Pradėkime, let’s get started You already know the personal pronouns well; aš, tu, jis, ji, mes, jūs,...
Oct 31, 2008•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hi there, I’m Jack and I’m Raminta and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. In a previous episode we went over the Lithuanian ten litas or dešimt litų banknote. The twenty litas or dvidešimt litų bill is decorated with the portrait of Jonas Mačiulis who lived from 1862 to 1932. Jonas Mačiulis urged the Lithuanian people to fight against Russification policies and to fight against the occupation of Lithuania by Imperial Russia. The reverse side of ...
Oct 21, 2008•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Trisdešimt trečias 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! however tačiau to run bėgti in time, in due course, eventually laikui bėgant time laikas over the years bėgant metams over the years Justina began to miss Lithuania bėgant metams Justina pradėjo ilgėtis Lietuvos over the years Justina began to miss her family bė...
Oct 21, 2008•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Trisdežimt antras 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! and so taip ir to stay likti and so she stayed taip ir liko she stayed to live in America ji liko gyventi Amerikoje she stayed to live in Lithuania ji liko gyventi Lietuvoje husband vyras wife žmona she stayed to live with her husband ji liko gyventi su savo vyru...
Oct 21, 2008•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 October which in Lithuanian is spalis. According to Radio Vilnius: News & Current Affairs, sales of bicycles are up in Lithuania. There are government efforts towards creating bicycle lanes in cities. However, bicycles are not so ingrained in the culture so as to make bike riding safe. Cars still rule the roads. The European Union gave Lithuania...
Oct 19, 2008•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 October which in Lithuanian is spalis. The Lithuanian state flag is different from the national flag of yellow, green and red. The state flag has the national symbol of the Vytis on a red background. It’s a beautiful flag and it has a longer history than the tricolor but it was not chosen as the national flag mainly because it would have been di...
Oct 18, 2008•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 new month of October which in Lithuanian is spalis. In Latin octo means eight. In the old Roman calendar October was the eighth month. In Lithuanian this month is spalis, named after spaliai – flax. In the month of spalis, flax is harvested. According to the free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Aušrinė is the Morning Star, a feminine deity in the old Lithuanian...
Oct 17, 2008•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hi there, I’m Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud. Just a quick note before we get started, Agnė iš Vilniaus has honored us with another excellent contribution. This is probably the best work she’s ever done on this podcast. Thanks for all your hard work Agnė! Also, I did the math and in 13 months we’ve done over nine episodes of Lithuanian Out Loud a month. Most of the time I’m trying to put out three or four a week, but I rarely have that much time. For the next few months we need to ...
Sep 28, 2008•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Click below to download the pdf show notes for episodes 0111-0120
Sep 25, 2008•Transcript available on Metacast Trisdešimt pirmas 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! examples pavyzdžiai in front of / ago prieš (+ accusative) in front of the restaurant prieš restoraną in front of the car prieš automobilį one year ago prieš vienerius metus two years ago prieš dvejus metus three years ago prieš trejus metus a year metai to see o...
Sep 25, 2008•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hi there, this is Jack, Raminta and I would like to welcome you back to another episode of Lithuanian Out Loud. Today we’ll continue working on numbers combined with nouns. This episode covers numbers that end in the number zero. On the next episode we’ll take a break from numbers and explore the verb žiūrėti – to look at and nežiūrėti – to not look at. Back in May of 2008, Ola Halvorsen, a listener from Oslo, Norway wrote us saying he loved to view the show notes for our episodes in iTunes. But...
Sep 22, 2008•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Exam 30 Trisdešimtas 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! a miracle stebuklas the restaurant restoranas one restaurant vienas restoranas two restaurants du restoranai the restroom tualetas one restroom vienas tualetas two restrooms du tualetai the male friend draugas one male friend vienas draugas two male friends du...
Sep 18, 2008•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hi there, I’m Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud. Today we’ll start the show off with a very nice email, then on to another awesome installment of Agnė iš Vilniaus. Thank you Agnė for taking the time to record this for us. Starting with today’s episode we’re going to do a series of programs on numbers. It may not be the most exciting stuff we can offer, but we have to go over it sometime, so we’ll do it now. Also, we’re up to 33 positive reviews on the Lithuanian Out Loud iTunes page, ...
Sep 14, 2008•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Exam 29 Dvidešimt devyntas 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! good day! laba diena! good day! labą dieną! how are you? formal kaip jums sekasi? very well, how are you? labai gerai, kaip jums? healthy as a carrot, thanks sveikas kaip morka, ačiū how do you say it in Lithuanian? kaip pasakyti lietuviškai? the day die...
Sep 11, 2008•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hi there! This is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud! Before we start today’s episode, Agnė iš Vilniaus has something special for us. Agnė reminded me that in Lithuanian Out Loud episode 51 a song jumped from the lips of Margarita. This song is "Lietuva", and the music was writen by Galina Savinienė. The words were written by Justinas Marcinkevičius a well-known Lithuanian poet. Agnė says this song is usually sung in Lithuanian Song Festivals. Thanks Agnė for this fabulous recording! S...
Sep 06, 2008•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dvidešimt aštuntas 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! I have a question aš turiu klausimą I speak a little Lithuanian, and you? aš truputį kalbu lietuviškai, o tu? I speak Lithuanian well aš kalbu lietuviškai gerai but you know that, I speak a little English bet žinai ką, aš truputį kalbu angliškai a little Russian...
Sep 05, 2008•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Aug 31, 2008•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
