Exam 45 keturiasdešimt 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! where is he living? Vilnius? Klaipėda? kur jis gyvena? Vilniuje? Klaipėdoje? he’s living in Europe’s center – Lithuania jis gyvena Europos centre – Lietuvoje Lithuania is Europe’s center Lietuva yra Europos centras he lives outside of town jis gyvena...
Jun 03, 2009•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lediniai Tiltai Icy Bridges Hi there, I’m Jack and I’m Raminta and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. On 15 July 1410 Lithuanian soldiers fought in the Battle of Grunwald. The German Teutonic Knights never could get on well with Lithuanians. The Pope in Rome had given the Teutonic Knights carte blanche to invade and conquer Lithuanian and Prussian lands. The Prussians were linguistic and cultural cousins of the Lithuanians. In 1385 Grand Duke Jo...
May 25, 2009•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ingrida; Vyro Ir Moters Ingrida; A Man And Woman 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’ll continue with the interviews Raminta made at a Lithuanian party. In the background you can hear lots of frogs in a nearby pond, music and people talking. In this interview Raminta is asking Ingrida another question. Enjoy! kaip galvojat ar sunku yra sutarti kartu ir kas yra svarbiausia santykiuose, žmonių? turi o...
May 12, 2009•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Click below to download the pdf show notes for episodes 0151-0160
Apr 28, 2009•Transcript available on Metacast Exam 44 Keturiasdešimt 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! also irgi, taip pat if jei/jeigu somewhere, anywhere kur nors maybe galbūt or arba separate atskiras together kartu peace ramybė in peace ramybėje the world pasaulis old senas/sena in the old sename the forest miškas inhabitant gyventojas / gyvento...
Apr 28, 2009•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Exam 43 Keturiasdešimt 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! to live gyventi I live aš gyvenu you live (familiar) tu gyveni he lives jis gyvena she lives ji gyvena you live (formal) jūs gyvenate you all live jūs gyvenate we live mes gyvename they live (mm/mf) jie gyvena they live (females) jos gyvena to not li...
Apr 14, 2009•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Labuka mielieji, cia Raminta ir malonu, kad vėl esate su mumis! (Hi darlings, this is Raminta and it’s a pleasure you are here with us again!) Hi there, I’m Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. Today we’ll start a new series called Lithuanian Out Loud Chat. In this episode I sat down with Raminta and Antanas. Antanas is a native of Vilnius, Lithuania. In this chat series I toss out a phrase in English and I ask our native speakers to tran...
Mar 31, 2009•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Exam 42 Keturiasdešimt 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! work! (tu) dirbk! dance! (tu) šok! look! (tu) žiūrėk! work! (jūs) dirbkite! dance! (jūs) šokite! look! (jūs) žiūrėkite! let’s work! dirbkime! let’s dance! šokime! let’s look! žiūrėkime! to jump šokinėti jump! (tu) šokinėk! to look žiūrėti look! (tu) ž...
Mar 25, 2009•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey 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 have a special recording that a listener sent us. This is a story from Jonas who wanted to tell us about his days as a young man in 1969. First we'll play his recording for you and then we‘ll translate it and break some of it down. So, here is Jonas with a short story about his youth! Tūkstantis devyni šimtai šešiasdešimt devintaisiais metais buvau jaunas ir graž...
Mar 05, 2009•15 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. According to Wikipedia, the Nemunas is a major Eastern European river beginning in Belarus and flowing through Lithuania before draining into the Curonian Lagoon and then into the Baltic Sea at Klaipėda. The Nemunas marks the border between Lithuania and Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast. It is the 14th largest river in Europe, the largest in Lithuania and the 3rd largest in Bel...
Feb 24, 2009•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast LL0154 – Exam 41 keturiasdešimt 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! a son sūnus one son vienas sūnus two sons du sūnūs three sons trys sūnūs five sons penki sūnūs eight sons aštuoni sūnūs a person žmogus one person vienas žmogus two people du žmonės three people trys žmonės six people šeši žmonės nine people ...
Feb 11, 2009•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast LL0153 – Exam 40 Keturiasdešimtas 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! dawn aušra gate, gates vartai the gates of dawn or dawn’s gates aušros vartai a stone akmuo one stone vienas akmuo two stones du akmenys nine stones devyni akmenys five stones penki akmenys seven stones septyni akmenys the bowl dubuo one bowl vien...
Jan 31, 2009•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mano Gyvenimas Puikus My Life Is Excellent 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 Raminta and I got an interesting email. It seems we have been nominated for Persons of the Year by the news portal at Lietuviams.com in Lithuania. If you would like to see us and our competition at the Lietuviams website just follow the link on the Lithuanian Out Loud blogpage. Naturally, we’d love it if you have the time to...
Jan 13, 2009•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Flashcards Body Parts Hi there, this is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud. 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. The third and fourth pages of our pdf file have English only. So, if you print the pdf f...
Jan 12, 2009•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Download the pdf file for episode 151 here:
Jan 11, 2009•Transcript available on Metacast Click below to download the pdf show notes for episodes 0141-0150:
Jan 10, 2009•Transcript available on Metacast Exam 39 Trisdešimt 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! a room kambarys you have a room (jūs) jūs turite kambarį you don’t have a room (jūs) jūs neturite kambario idea idėja you all have an idea jūs turite idėją you all don’t have an idea jūs neturite idėjos a male doctor gydytojas they have a male doctor (m...
Jan 09, 2009•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Flashcards More Animals Hi there, this is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud. 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. The third and fourth pages of our pdf file have English only. So, if you print the pdf...
Jan 08, 2009•2 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. According to a Los Angeles Times article of September 2005, a Russian SU-27 flying from St. Petersburg to Kaliningrad went off course, flew over Lithuania, the pilot ejected and the plane crashed into an empty Lithuanian field. Everything about this story is bizarre. Russian authorities initially claimed the plane was unarmed but in fact it had air-to-air missiles and a ca...
Jan 07, 2009•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hi there, this is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud. 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. Photograph: Laisvės statula (Freedom Statue), Kaunas, Lithuania Photographer: Algirdas (Wikipedia) 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. The third a...
Jan 06, 2009•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Download the pdf file for episode 147 here:
Jan 04, 2009•Transcript available on Metacast Trisdešimt 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 don’t have aš neturiu you don’t have (tu) tu neturi he doesn’t have jis neturi she doesn’t have ji neturi we don’t have mes neturime you don’t have (jūs) jūs neturite you all don’t have jūs neturite they don’t have (m/m or m/f group) jie neturi they don’t hav...
Jan 03, 2009•5 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. According to the Wikipedia page entitled, Rimantas Antanas Stankevičius, on 9 September 1990, Lithuanian pilot Rimantas Antanas Stankevičius died while performing at an airshow in Treviso, Italy. He was flying an SU-27 high-performance jet and after performing a loop the aircraft was lower than it should have been. Rimantas could have ejected safely but the unpiloted aircr...
Jan 02, 2009•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. According to Radio Vilnius: News & Current Affairs Lithuania has the third lowest birthrate in Europe and Lithuania makes the list of the ten nations worldwide with the lowest birthrates. Naturally it’s difficult for parents to combine childcare with work and daycare isn’t easy to find. Lithuania has the longest maternity leave coverage in the world. The childcare giver re...
Jan 01, 2009•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. According to the free Wikipedia page Romuva; The Quendlinburg Chronicle mentions a missionary Bruno of Querfort, who was killed along with 18 men by Yotvingians because of entering The Holy Forest. This was the first time the name of Lithuania was mentioned in written sources. Lithuanians came to history as very conservative believers of an ancient European pre-Christian f...
Dec 28, 2008•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hi there, this is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud. 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. The third and fourth pages of our pdf file have English only. So, if you print the pdf file onto heavy paper o...
Dec 19, 2008•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Download the pdf file for episode 137 here:
Dec 18, 2008•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. Prašom... According to the Wikipedia page entitled, Russians in Lithuania, most of the present-day Russians in Lithuania are migrants from the Soviet era and their descendants. In Lithuania, Russian emmigration was resisted. In Latvia and Estonia, less was done to stop it. By 1989 Russians made up 30% of the population in Estonia, while in Latvia, ethnic Latvians made up j...
Dec 17, 2008•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Click below to download the pdf show notes for episodes 0131-0140
Dec 15, 2008•Transcript available on Metacast Hi there, I’m Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. This is our second installment of Gyvenimas Puikus. First, we’ll let you hear the conversation and then we’ll go over the conversation slowly and break it down a little. After that we’ll let you hear the recordings that we had to cut out because Raminta and her friend Dovilė just couldn’t keep from laughing. And by the way, I’d like to sincerely thank Dovilė for taking the time to help us...
Dec 10, 2008•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
