What is the time

[YuKillHer]

Manau, turėtum mokyti literatūriškai kirčiuojamų žodžių, o ne pagal tarmybes. :) Šiaip tai šaunuolė.

[lietausdebeselio]

Puikus atradimas Naujiesiems metams. Ačiū, kad vykdai tokią iniciatyvą! Irgi prisijungiu prie stebinčiųjų sąrašo :) Su Šventėmis!

[kristytamo]

@lietausdebeselio

Aciu

[serevincis]

I´m learning and yours videos will be so great to me.. Thanks ! Anderson Serevincis From Brazil

[asdmanager]

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[kristytamo]

@asdmanager

Dekui!

[SaBracaSam]

Hey Kristi! Just wanted to drop a "thank you" for doing this tutorial. It is hard to find any audio source for Lithuanian here in Germany so you are kind of a "24/7 data base" for me, your vowel lesson helped a lot! Keep it up :)

[mrtommynazi]

I was told that Lithuanian is a language not based on latin and is not related to any other language.Is this true?

[kristytamo]

@mrtommynazi

Well we have latin letters with few specific Lithuanian characters. We have a lot of borrowed or international words, quite a lot of slang coming from foreign languages (Russian and English).

[kristytamo]

@kristytamo

However some say that it is one of the oldest Indo-European languages very similar to Sanscrit.

I would like to believe it. Lithuanian is one of the Baltic group languages (Latvia, Lithuanian, Prussian). Prussian is dead now, so only Latvian and Lithuanian are left. These two languages are related.

[kristytamo]

@mrtommynazi

I fele proud that I speak Lithuanian! :) All the best to you!

[asCii88]

@mrtommynazi That is true. Lithuanian is not a romance language, thus it is not based on latin. The romance branch by no means comprises a huge quantity of languages, so that belonging or not belonging to it makes any difference.

Both lithuanian and latin have the same root, which is proto-indo-european.

[gghrtx2]

@mrtommynazi

Yes an no.

Lithuanian is classified in the Indo-Europen language-family, this family is including a lot of various actual languages belonging to several sub-families. So it still has some common points with other languages even if it did evolute independently for centuries.

Anyway nowadays common points are also coming from influence of other languages, like Russian, Polish, and English for new words like 'Computeris' for example.

[MrNEPTUNEMADNESS]

brilliant video

[asCii88]

pagal dlkž valandà yra 3b kirciuotes. ty, jis kirciuojamas valandŲ. tačiau lkž galime matyt dar kitą vA~landa, pirmosios kirčiuotės, kuris yra antroj vietoj, gal norint žymėt, kad tai kažkokia tarminė variacija. vA~landa turi dar kitą reikšmę: balanda.

tai va, greičiausiai priimtiniausia sakyt kiek valandŲ?

[kristytamo]

@asCii88

Thank you.

[kristytamo]

@asCii88

I have added annotations for that.

[paulmattt]

You are back!!!!!

[kristytamo]

@paulmattt

Hope you are still learning a bit even when I'm not posting vids :)

[paulmattt]

@kristytamo I am, but you are my favorite teacher ;-). And Argar is right, you did loose your Scottish rolling r's....

[rafalblazejowski]

it's great to see you back! hope you've been well...

[kristytamo]

@rafalblazejowski

Thank you!. I am really well! :)

[rjpancerniCAUSA]

Is Seibak a Lithuanian last name? (or Polish?)

[kristytamo]

@rjpancerniCAUSA

It sounds more like Polish, but it could have been shortened into this version from something like Seibakas or so, then it would look more like Lithuanian.

In most cases male's surename end in -as, -is, us.

[rjpancerniCAUSA]

@kristytamo

Thank you Kristy.

[paulmattt]

@kristytamo I would say, it is more German. Didn't you once say, your family comes from Lithuania Minor? (Mažoji Lietuva)?

[kristytamo]

@rjpancerniCAUSA

Actually I have googled the surname Seibakas, and I could find Lithuanian ppl having this surname. In some dictionary I have also found Seibutis, which is similar to Seibakas. And Seibutis is Lithuanian as well.

So my theory is that you surname 'Seibak' is Lithuanian, but it was simplified for the English speaking country.

[rjpancerniCAUSA]

@kristytamo Wow! Thank you for the research and replies. (just to let you know, my surname is Polakiewicz). In town, there is a very talented woman named Ewa Seibak. Ms. Seibak is very involved in Polish dancing and Polish culture. I believe she is actually from Lithuania.

[Argar1980]

You have lost your scottish accent!!

I visited klaipeda recently

the only words i could remember was LABAS, ACIU and IKI

Its very hard to find phrase books in lithuainian! in fact impossible as i couldnt find any!

[kristytamo]

@Argar1980

That is a shame that I lost my scottish accent, I want my Scottish accent back :)

It seems I can adapt very quickly to other ppl accents. I moved out of Britain half a year ago. This could be the case.

[ilbogdan]

mi girlfriend will be proud of me. Aciu.

[kristytamo]

@ilbogdan

Great!