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LEARNING LITHUANIAN

Lithuania is the geographical centre of Europe

Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm5lG6DmNxo

Merry Christmas = Linksmu Kaledu

Laimingų Naujųjų metų.= Happy New Year

May 2012 bring you lots of luck, love and laughter!

Tegul 2012 atneša tau daug laimės, meilės ir džiaugsmo!

Lithuanians are fond of Svyturys beer, here's an add

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mNn3t3QY4c

Lithuanians love their vodka- here's song about drinking it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3dO8FESBRM&feature=related

Here's a nice pub/wine bar called Prie Parliamento Near Parliament House in Gedimino Avenue. Click onto Translate. for a review in English]

www.diena.lt/.../gedimino-prospekte-atgimsta-rest.

Lithuanian Christmas traditions

http://www.labas.co.uk/jotter/2007/12/19/twelve-dishes-and-no-booze-a-lithuanian-christmas/

See Lithuania for free via photos at these websites

http://www.travel.lt/index.php?lang=2&pmode=gallery

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OStISjdmmSI

http://www.lietuvosmarsrutai.eu/index2.php?lang=1

http://www.lithuania-photo.com/photos/

Diminutives or pet names for people. Example: Full name Jurate Diminutives= Jura, Juratele, Juraciuks,

Listen to a beautiful Lithuanian song with words on the screen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Ucl9rIh1M

Traditional Lithuanian song about an arranged marriage sung by Rasa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KisOaZwJOJM

Listen to more Lithuanian songs here:

Here's Ieva Narkute singing As iseisiu I'm leaving at the Senamiescio Ziogas Old Town Festival

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f0IUV9MBFhw#!

This is an old song by Donis about a young man saddling his horse to go to war, with the background video clip footage from WW2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Awdyg8gxDA&feature=player_embedded#!

A more modern love song "Apkabink"= Put your arms around me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hAwO1ka0gcA#!

Here's another one by Slezas called Be Taves Without you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CaVmikZRSB4#at=38

Here's one called Be my love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NCHuDDdNwp4#!

For daily news about Lithuania, in the Lithuanian language go to:

http://www.balsas.lt/

LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE LESSONS FOR FREE :

www.slic.org.au

email:LLLinfo@slic.org.au

Learn Lithuanian language and history - Middle School students

http://www.ozomokyklalietuvaiciams.eu

Learn Lithuanian with games

http://www.kalbosnamai.lt

Lithuanian for children

http://www.mokyklele.net

Learn Lithuanian for Russian speakers

www.oneness.vu.lt/ru

Qualifications gained overseas that need to be translated into Lithuanian:

www.skvc.lt

Professional Qualifications Publications Unit

www.profesijos.lt

Lithuanian language explanations: phonetics, methodology, lexicon, syntax and other grammatical advice:

http://ualgiman.dtiltas.lt

International Lithuanian Language and Culture Summer Courses are held annually in the city of Kaunas in Lithuania:

www.vdu.lt.LTcourses

LITHUANIAN SLANG

Labutis= Hi . Used for good friends to begin an email.

Sveikute! = Hi there for a female friend

Sveikas! Hi there, hello for a male friend.

Grazuole= good looking female

Grazuoliuk= handsome, used to describe a really good male friend

Buciukas= a little kiss

Buckis= a big kiss

Bliamba= Oh no ! What a catastrophe!

Saunuolis= you did a fine jobto a male

Saunuole= You did a fine job to a female

Maladiets= Great job from the Russian language



E.G. WHAT IS A SIOPAS?

http://zodynas.kriu.lt/zodis/siopas

LITHUANIAN ACCENTS ON YOUR KEYBOARD

If you're wanting to type the accents, you have to 'add' that language's keyboard. The process is very simple. Assuming that you are using Windows operating system follow these steps:

1. Click on the start button in the bottom left-hand corner 2. 'Control Panel' 3. Under 'Classic View' click on Regional and Language Options 4. Click on the tab 'Keyboards and Languages' 5. 'Change Keyboards' 6. Another window should pop-up. Under the 'General' tab click on the 'Add' button and select you keyboard of choice.

FORMATTER ERROR (Malformed List) You may also notice a small button near the bottom right corner of your screen that looks like a keyboard. There you may also change/add different input languages.

See Lithuania for free via photos at these websites

http://www.travel.lt/index.php?lang=2&pmode=gallery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OStISjdmmSI http://www.lietuvosmarsrutai.eu/index2.php?lang=1 http://www.lithuania-photo.com/photos/



Lithuanian online dictionaries: Everyday Lithuanian:

http://www.autoinfa.lt/webdic/

A more detailed dictionary can be found at: www.lkz.lt

Place names online dictionary, including Lithuania, Latvia,Poland, Ukraine etc: http://lkz.mch.mii.lt/Vietovardziai/

The Language of Lithuanian banks, laws, documents etc: http://www.lki.lt/index.php?lki=12

Official Lithuanian terminology for the preparation of official documents etc: http://lkz.mch.m-ii.lt/Kanceliarinis/

Lithuanian goverment official language & explanation of terms:

http:// terminai.vlkk.lt:10001/pls/tb/tbse >

> British Council Lithuania > Facebook profile > posts information for general public on projects, programmes, > products and > events here: http://www.facebook.com/BritishCouncilLithuania?v=wall

LITHUANIAN FOR CHILDREN ONLINE RUN BY OZO JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS IN VILNIUS LITHUANIA

Visit www.ozomokyklalietuvaiciams.esu

email: ozomokykla@delfi.lt

address; 39 Ozo street, Vilnius Lithuania,LTo 07171 telephone; +370 61857580

Use google translate. You can try it at http://translate.google.com/translate_t#ar|en| And it also provides translation for other languages.

LITHUANIAN CHRISTMAS CAROLS

# Lietuviškas "Kalėdų giesmės" treileris 2 min - 24 Sep 2009 Uploaded by anpasxx youtube.com Kaledu Giesmes 2 - Sveikas Jezau Gimusis 3 min - 2 Jan 2008 Uploaded by hadroid youtube.com # giesmes videos | Punjabi video | Music video | youtube video ... Lietuviškas "Kalėdų giesmė.. Runtime: 2:27 mins. Views: 5687. Giesmės 2008 04 20.. Runtime: 6:45 mins. Views: 4133. Tautine giesme Dublino centre. ...

videos.mediaticks.com/?vq=giesmes&k=1



For learning
Lithuanian
Category
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