Episode description
Hi there, I'm Jack. Today's episode begins a long series of episodes that will introduce a lot of new vocabulary related to food. When I started digging into this I was surprised at how large the subject of food is. You have your basic foods like apples, oranges, chicken, beef, etcetera. Then you have all the ingredients used in cooking such as flour, cloves, rosemary, and then you have all the foods you can create or that you might order in a restaurant, such as eggplant casserole with cheese, linguini pasta with clam sauce or cinnamon rolls with cherry filling. This is a huge topic. Anyway, we have many, many, many episodes scripted for this subject. We won't give them all to you at once or one after the other. We'll intersperse the series with exam episodes and episodes on other topics. Evenutally, we'll get through dozens of food programs. Just so you know what to expect, we just shoot through the food types and we use phrases that you might use such as, I like bananas, I don't like bananas, I want bananas, I don't want bananas, and then we'll move onto another food. The episodes won't by organized by types of food. We'll mix fruits with meats and salads with bakery products. We hope it all comes in handy. Now, on with today's episode that I recorded with Vytautas, the ballroom dance competitor visiting the United States from Kaunas, Lithuania. Enjoy! Hi there, I’m Jack, I am Vytautas and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language.so, where are you from Vytautai?
I am from...
yes?
please...
I am from Kaunas
ah, okay, so, you speak aukstaičiai?
uh, yes,
yeah?
yeah
that's the dialect of Lithuanian they speak in Kaunas?
yes
yeah
yeah
okay
how do you say it?
aukstaičiai?
aukstaičiai
aukstaičiai
okay
it's the best Lithuanian, or..?
yeah, I think the best
the best!
alright, uh...
According to the Wikipedia article entitled, Kaunas Castle, in 1361 the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights sent spies to study the defenses of the castle. The following year, 1362, the German knights attacked and the siege lasted three weeks. The castle walls were 36 feet or 11 meters high but the Christian knights took the castle killing all but 36 of the 400 Lithuanian defenders. The Germans then commemorated the victory with a celebration on Easter Sunday 1362. Later the Lithuanians attacked the castle and drove the Christians away. In 1384 the Teutuonic Knights attacked and conquered the castle again. That same year the Lithuanians floated troops, cannons and trebuchets down the Neris River from Vilnius and smashed the German army.
Kaunas Castle
Just a short review before we get to the meat of today’s episode. If we’re talking about an unspecified number of a COUNTABLE object we use the genitive plural. If we’re talking about an unspecified amount of an UNCOUNTABLE object we use the genitive singular. Just keep this rule in mind. Today we’re going to be going over items you might want to order in a restaurant. Using a countable noun we might say something like this; I would like mushrooms norėčiau grybų Using an uncountable noun we might say something like this; I would like milk norėčiau pieno what you would like? ko pageidausite? I don’t know nežinau would you like a caesar salad? ar norėtum cezario salotų? yes, I’d like a caesar salad taip, norėčiau cezario salotų okay, now let‘s ask for some things you might find in a restaurant a menu valgiaraštis (valgyti + raštas) writing raštas a menu meniu meniu is a word borrowed from English and does not decline I'd like a menu norėčiau valgiaraščio I’d like a menu, please norėčiau meniu, prašom soup sriuba I’d like soup norėčiau sriubos would you like soup? ar norėtum sriubos? I’d like a little soup norėčiau truputį sriubos I don’t want soup nenoriu sriubos a salad salotos a leaf lapas salad leaves salotų lapai caesar salad cezario salotos iceberg lettuce isbergo salotos I’d like salad norėčiau salotų would you like a salad? ar norėtum salotų? I’d like a little salad norėčiau truputį salotų I don’t want salad nenoriu salotų I’d like a caesar salad norėčiau cezario salotų would you like a caesar salad? ar norėtum cezario salotų? a tomato pomidoras tomatoes pomidorai I’d like tomato norėčiau pomidorų would you like tomato? ar norėtum pomidorų? I’d like a little tomato norėčiau truputį pomidorų I don’t want tomato nenoriu pomidorų a cucumber agurkas cucumbers agurkai I’d like cucumber norėčiau agurkų would you like cucumber? ar norėtum agurkų? I’d like a little cucumber norėčiau truputį agurkų I don’t want cucumber nenoriu agurkų an onion svogūnas onions svogūnai blue onions mėlyni svogūnai I’d like onion norėčiau svogūnų would you like onion? ar norėtum svogūnų? I’d like a little onion norėčiau truputį svogūnų I don’t want onion nenoriu svogūnų an olive alyvuogė olives alyvuogės I’d like olives norėčiau alyvuogių would you like olives? ar norėtum alyvuogių? I’d like a little bit of olives norėčiau truputį alyvuogių I don’t want olives nenoriu alyvuogių cheese sūris I’d like cheese norėčiau sūrio would you like cheese? ar norėtum sūrio? I’d like a little cheese norėčiau truputį sūrio I don’t want cheese nenoriu sūrio feta cheese fetos sūris I’d like feta cheese norėčiau fetos sūrio would you like feta cheese? ar norėtum fetos sūrio? I’d like a little feta cheese norėčiau truputį fetos sūrio salt druska I’d like salt norėčiau druskos would you like salt? ar norėtum druskos? I’d like a little salt norėčiau truputį druskos I don’t want salt nenoriu druskos oil aliejus I’d like oil norėčiau aliejaus would you like oil? ar norėtum aliejaus? what do you think of the way... have you been in restaurants much? in Lithuania? here? no do you think people...how are they different? are they? they're always smiling right, Lithuanians always say, "why is everybody smiling so much?" it seems strange, huh? yeah, in Lithuania the people is very sad yeah it's different always smiling - Americans yeah wide smiling but, you don't know what they thinking about you (many Lithuanians are surprised by how much Americans smile - it seems suspicious to them) right oh, where were we? let's see, I’d like a little oil norėčiau truputį aliejaus I don’t want oil nenoriu aliejaus bacon šoninė baked bacon kepinta šoninė I’d like bacon norėčiau šoninės would you like bacon? ar norėtum šoninės? I’d like a little bacon norėčiau truputį šoninės I don’t want bacon nenoriu šoninės parmesan cheese parmezano sūris I’d like parmesan cheese norėčiau parmezano sūrio would you like parmesan cheese? ar norėtum parmezano sūrio? I’d like a little parmesan cheese norėčiau truputį parmezano sūrio I don’t want parmesan nenoriu parmezano sūrio an anchovy ančiuvis anchovies ančiuviai I’d like anchovies norėčiau ančiuvių would you like anchovies? ar norėtum ančiuvių? I’d like a little bit of anchovies norėčiau truputį ančiuvių anchovies? No, I hate anchovies! ančiuvių? Ne, aš nekenčiu ančiuvių! Šaunuoliai! Great! You made it to the end of another episode! Šaunuoliai!