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| shapd Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6150 days ago 126 posts - 208 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Modern Hebrew, French, Russian | Message 17 of 31 07 August 2008 at 5:41am | IP Logged |
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Lithuanian is more complex than Russian. Russians living in the Baltic states complain that it is impossible to learn Latvian or Lithuanian, which they now need to. This is of course partly political, but there is some truth in it.
Lithuanian has more complex declensions and much more complicated verb conjugations than Russian. It has variable stress in nouns, less predictable than Russian, and is also tonal. Good luck to you if you are attempting it. It is an attractive language to listen to, partly bacause of the tones, and is of great interest because of its archaic nature. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jurga Triglot Newbie Lithuania Joined 5438 days ago 19 posts - 24 votes Speaks: Lithuanian*, English, Latvian Studies: German, Arabic (classical), French | Message 18 of 31 05 January 2010 at 2:01pm | IP Logged |
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Good luck for all who have picked up this hard language!
And I'd be glad to help if anyone has questions, just pm me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Snesgamer Groupie Afghanistan Joined 6612 days ago 81 posts - 90 votes Studies: English*, German, Spanish, Norwegian, Scottish Gaelic | Message 19 of 31 05 January 2010 at 4:16pm | IP Logged |
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I find several things about Lithuania to be interesting, like how many archaic features are present in its language, and that it was the last European country to give up paganism.
If I wasn't so tangled up in so many other languages, I'd definitely love to learn Lithuanian. Maybe someday soon I'll look into at least the basics to get a basic idea of it. At least it uses a Latin instead of a Cyrillic alphabet. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jurga Triglot Newbie Lithuania Joined 5438 days ago 19 posts - 24 votes Speaks: Lithuanian*, English, Latvian Studies: German, Arabic (classical), French | Message 20 of 31 05 January 2010 at 7:18pm | IP Logged |
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Indeed, cyrilic alphabet is dreadful! (Though I liked trying to write in it a lot, reading is soo difficult.) And Lithuanian alphabet consists of 32 letters, majority of which are known for anybody writing in Latin alphabet,others....well, they are easy to write,pronounce and recognize, however, it's not that easy to learn all the rules when they should be used as more often than not,they sound just like others. (For example, 'ū' may sound just like 'u' and it's exactly like 'ų'!)
Oh, I should stop if I don't want to frighten everybody out of learning Lithuanian:) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| CanadaEh Newbie CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4945 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Studies: Lithuanian | Message 21 of 31 13 May 2011 at 6:24am | IP Logged |
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I realy appreciate all the help you guys have given me as I am also learning to speak, write and read Lithuanian! I am only eleven, so it may be more difficult for me but I'm going to try my very best.
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| Dragomanno Triglot Groupie Zimbabwe Joined 5004 days ago 80 posts - 98 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, GermanB2 Studies: Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Lithuanian, Albanian, Ancient Greek | Message 22 of 31 18 May 2011 at 10:39am | IP Logged |
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I lived in Lithuania for a while and have been desperately striving to study that amazing language. I found a quite useful book there, "Nė dienos be lietuvių kalbos" by Virginija Stumbrienė and Aurelija Kaškelevičienė, published by Gimtasis Žodis. It is a basic vocabulary-builder, very good to start picking the most useful words and sentences.
Glad to see finally there are some people interested in Lithuanian here! And Lithuanians too :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Mrs. Dalloway Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 4970 days ago 70 posts - 95 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, Russian Studies: GermanA2, French, Danish | Message 23 of 31 19 May 2011 at 2:56pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you soooooo much! I had lots of trouble finding materials! I luv yah! *w*
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| CanadaEh Newbie CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4945 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Studies: Lithuanian | Message 24 of 31 19 May 2011 at 5:34pm | IP Logged |
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I was wondering if anybody had websites I could use to learn Lithuanian. Thanks for any help you can give!
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