Young Lithuanians speak pretty good English. I was there in 2017. Lithuanians are sociable, kind and friendly.

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Agreed… thanks for watching my friend! 👍👌

@RichieLarpa

Ай бұрын

Young everybody speaks English these days, since it is a global language, yet we might encounter some exceptions here and there.

@TheRadistai

Ай бұрын

I am a native LIthuanian but i enjoy any chance to speak English in Lithuania :)

I live in Lithuania and meet a lot of people under 40 who speak English and am amazed at the young children who now speak English with no accent.

@Monte80

Ай бұрын

That's kind of true. My son at 10 years speaks at the level we were at the final exams.

I bet some of the people spoke english but did not want to talk 😅

@sabakag

Ай бұрын

Exactly my thoughts :D

@bellavampirella

Ай бұрын

Camera shy

@vaportwo3339

Ай бұрын

Yeah quite typical for lithuanians

Great video, I lived in UK for 18 years and came back to Lithuania. What I noticed is that everyone who's born after 2005, virtually impossible to find someone who doesn't speak English fluently. Seriously, I'm yet to find one.

@kazkaskazkas8689

Ай бұрын

Depends on what you mean by "fluently". Most people younger than 40 speak at least some English. For 20-30 year olds, it's much higher. But no more than 20% speak fluently in the common sense of the word.

“Everyone made in Taiwan?” Haha top class.. 😂😂

Some young girls who said NO and went their way were able to speak at least some English, but they did not want to be filmed and then made fun of by Justin and his viewers.

When I started teaching English in about 1998 - 2000, very few young people spoke good English (despite the fact that most had been taught it at schools even in the Soviet times). But during the last 20 - 25 years the situation has changed a lot, now most young people do speak it (better or worse). And I suspect the credit for that goes not to the improved teaching at schools, but to the internet, KZread, Netflix, movies etc. And of course to the open borders with the EU and the Western world. Back then we were still mentally part of the post-Soviet space, where Russian was the language. Now at least the younger generation born after 1990 are fully part of the West, now east of the border is as exotic as Africa or North Korea.

@Brazauskas123

Ай бұрын

I think you are being a bit too humble as an English teacher. Personally, I had great English teachers who were dedicated, methodical and understanding. I don't know the exact reasons, but English classes always felt more "western" than others. They felt less strict, but more interesting and engaging. ('99 to '11, Kaunas)

@user-qu6qg7sk4v

Ай бұрын

Lithuanians used to suck at foreign languages. I had some business up in Vilnius in the late 00's and hardly anyone understood any of my semi-broken russian or English. It was a challenge getting any service anywhere.

We definitely dont think like Brits, that you have to speak Lithuanian in Lithuania. 🤣

That was really interesting, they speak English way better that youngsters in italy 😅😅😅

@stevenhull5025

Ай бұрын

They spoke better English than a lot of youngsters where I live in England.

@crabLT

Ай бұрын

@@stevenhull5025 How many of said youngsters were actually English though?

@simonchilli2088

Ай бұрын

@@crabLT None. As someone born in London in 1961 I can assure that none were native English but they were all very pleasant and most gave at least a small amount of their time to help Justin.

Well you are very excited, joyfull and friendly. That is super sus 😃 for me at least. I would be cautious to speak to you 😅

@readanatic

Ай бұрын

Fair. I might talk to him but he cautious 😅

I imagine that a lot more people you spoke to speak English. The thing is, Lithuanians aren't that fond of socializing with complete strangers, unless it's night time at a bar. Some of the girls you spoke to probably thought you were going to hit on them or something :D

@rokaspetk5964

Ай бұрын

Grynai

@manometras

Ай бұрын

Because he came to. 😅 But no luck, I guess.

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your input!

@jurganooooos5579

Ай бұрын

Friendly advice. When you talk to people, especially Lithuanians, it is best to start with the phrase "can you help me". And only after that, test with the phrases "do you speak English?". The results will change immediately. People will try to help you, no matter how difficult or easy it is to speak English. In the worst case, they will pull out their phone, turn on the map and show you where to go with gestures. But changing the first phrase will open more doors, and then you can try to start a conversation. Thanks for the video btw, keep up the good work 😁👍

Nobody expects foreigners to speak Lithuanian if they are visiting country, it's a hard language. Knowing few polite words is a nice gesture, though.

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing, i really appreciate it! 👍🙂

Justin, I must commend you. Recently stumbled onto your channel. I love how well you naturally weave the edification of others into your interviews and casual banter. Well done, Sir. From So. Cal., JM

I would assume you actually wanted to get lost because after they gave correct directions you still ended up near the Town Hall :D Funny video gj

I love Vilnius, I visited 5 times my partner is from there. Not many speak English in general but all restaurants have an English menu’s and most young workers in shops and restaurants speak some English. The teenagers and early 20’s tend to be good at it

Thank you Mate.

Justin toujours original dans tes videos ! Bravo mon ami 🙌👏👏👏🙌

Trolleybus (Škoda 14tr or its variation) at 02:10 was made by Škoda in Czechoslovakia (it is possible that this one was made after 1994, so it would be in Czech republic then), so it was not made at USSR

wow such a bunch of positive vibes

well-done Justin stay active 😉

Nice Vilnius walk, Justin!

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Thank you!👍👌

thanks very nice videos. hay from lithuania.

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Glad you like them! Thank you so much for watching and commenting! 👍🙂

Enjoyable vid Just. 😊

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 🙂

I'm an Estonian. I went to school when it was still soviet time. I started to learn English in the first form already. But it wasn't like that in all schools. I was just lucky in that sense. In most schools children started to learn English or German in the 4th year. I mean, I'm talking about Estonia here, I don't know how it was in other Baltic countries.

@psy-lion

Ай бұрын

Russian will be half-banned in Latvian schools, you can learn only if you want to, it's not forced

@manometras

Ай бұрын

It was all the same in Lithuania in Soviet times. We had been learning Russian seriously from the second grade of school to the second year of university, and we learned English, German or French (none of which we expected to ever get to speak to the respective native speakers) from the 4th grade to the second year in the university, but way less seriously because we never used those languages anywhere in life afterwards.

Greetings from Lithuania.

Trolleybus is not from USSR.., he is from Czechoslovakian Socialist Republic until year 1993... But there times from what commes this vehicle, of course is soviet times... Šv. Stepono g. = Saint Stephen street... Dr. Justin, Lithuania (also Latvia, Estonia) from year ~2010 is declarated as country of Northern Europe, and prefix "Eastern" was canceled with intention to separate from soviet era... This decision makes European Commission through constultations with governments of all three Baltic Countries... Nice to see you in my own city! Vilnius city was celebrate 700 year birthday in 2023...

@bellavampirella

Ай бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏

Koks pozityvus ir geras video, ačiū. Thanks.

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Ačiū. 🙂👍

Lithuania is in Northern Europe mate, have some classes :D

@psy-lion

Ай бұрын

its North East

@BrokenBackMountains

Ай бұрын

​@@psy-lionAccording to the UN, it is Northern Europe.

@psy-lion

Ай бұрын

@@BrokenBackMountains You are so obsessed being called as "Northern" only because not to be associated vith Slavic people?

@BrokenBackMountains

Ай бұрын

​@@psy-lionI'm a Scot. Maybe fact check before commenting or look at a map...The UN classes the Baltics as Northern Europe. They don't need to differentiate from Slavs as they aren't Slavs. They are Balts and Finno-Ugric.

@Teskalis

Ай бұрын

@@psy-lionBalts are not slavs lmao

What a positive video ❤

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much, i appreciate the nice comment! 👍🙂

Nice, I'm from Vilnius, thank you for a lovely video about my home town, where I live. It was so fun and cringe to watch when at the beginning where the Einstein mural was, you took a wrong street away from Halės turgus (market actually being just at the other end of the correct street from Einstein), and then you needed to make your round trip through a maze of old town streets back to the Halės market.

Good video and funny .

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for watching and commenting! 👍🙂

props on the Vilnius pronunciation

I don’t think he is British 😅and he is just copying Ben from Bald and Bankrupt

You're a gentleman and its a pleasure to watch you explore psl Much appreciated 👍

Lithuanian here, I’ll (try to) give you some context. Most older people (40+) here speak Russian really well, but know little to no english cuz soviets and/or school (I’m not 100% sure), on the other hand people under 30 are much more likely to speak English, BUT, the people that speak the best are usually teenagers, but not all if us are the most extroverted haha Also, graffiti is pretty common, and when I say graffiti, I mean giant murals like the ones you came across in the video. I don’t live in Vilnius but in my city there are 4+ of those giant ones. They’re actually quite liked by locals, people don’t tend to graffiti over them :) Geros dienos visiems kas skaito ;)✨

@J.E.E

29 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing, i really appreciate it! 👍

The problem with speaking the language of any country you are in is that if you learn to speak for instance Bulgarian for an holiday fine. However if the next year you want an holiday in Portugal it follows that you need to speak Portuguese. However some basix of a language from an app would help. For instance greeting people and thanking them.

Lithuanians, but they don't want to talk to russian spies

Hey there, first time watching your video you seem a nice guy who likes to travel, im happy you found turgus in Vilnius. Hello from other town in Lithuania Klaipeda. Come visit us in summer time im sure you will like sea festival in the end of July.

@J.E.E

29 күн бұрын

Brilliant idea, stay tuned for more videos from Lithuania ! 👍🙂

Justin if you are still here... come to Kaunas!

those old soviet trollies still have windows on them with logos "made in Czechoslovakia"

Bro in Vilnius we have certain places where majority of people speaks. Universities, students pubs, clubs, tech parks....

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the advice 👍😃

Cool video!

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you so much for watching and commenting! 👍🙂

Thank you dear Justin

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

My pleasure, thank you so much for watching and commenting! 👍🙂

I wish I could visit it, but my English is very bad 😢

Keep it up pal It's a pleasure to watch you explore

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much, i really appreciate the support! 👍🙂

Hello ,greetings from lithuania ,i love that you like ours country,and ye with english language we doing better

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

I appreciate the kind comment, thank you so much! 👍🙂

bro could you tell me where tf you were in vilnius cause I've been there 7 times but never seen these streets

@vaportwo3339

Ай бұрын

This is old town vilnius, walk from railway station anywhere

Visit Kaunas next 🤙

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Stay tuned, i will be visiting Kaunas soon!! 👍🙂

Not "Alice" turgus, but Hales, or Halles in German (hall), that is a "market place nearby the Hall" (Halle in German, although nobody rememeber nowadays since those times that it was German word).

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing! 🙂👍

You should come to Kaunas 🎉

It is St Stephens street by the way

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing! 👍

0:49 This right here is a beautiful irony! I just want to clarify that not everyone acted like that and "aš jiems dėkoju", but when I have learned some Lithuanian language and then spoke that during my first stay, especially younger ones replied to me in English. No invitation, no polite question, they straight up answered in English and automatically assumed that I would appreciate it. I definitely do not appreciate this hypocritical situation of asking us to learn their language before visiting their country, yet answering to us in global English "suddenly", when we DO learn the language. Thank God in case of Lithuania, those speaking English were less than 50%, which was unexpected to me, but I still share it, since obviously, this happens in almost every country. To end it on a good note, I thank the author of this video, it was pleasant to me to learn about this situation from different perspective and to really see, how many people can speak English. Especially hats off for knowing at least something from various languages, especially you knowing some bits from Ukrainian caught me off guard!

@manometras

Ай бұрын

They don't ASK you to learn their language, unless you live in their country for years and plan to continue (which most Russian speakers do). Justin made fun of us because he comes here to make that fun.

Cool vid, bud.

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for watching and commenting. 👍

Home sweat home baby 🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹❤❤❤

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

👍🙂

so where is that damn hales turgus?

Good video

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much 👍🙂

You have some talent to get lost from the bus station to Hales turgus (literally ~500m) :D keep the good work!

👍

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

👍🙂

You should come to Kaunas. No soviet relicts, no soviet busses, everybody speaks english yet it’s the most patriotic and lithuanian city in our country.

I am sure way more people spoke English. They had to understand your question “do you understand English” to answer you “no” :) some people might be really introverted here and they just don’t like speaking with strangers.

@J.E.E

29 күн бұрын

Agreed… thanks for watching my friend! 👍👌

🎉

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

👍🙂

Eastern Europe is one of my favorite places on Earth

@BrokenBackMountains

Ай бұрын

Lithuania isn't in Eastern Europe.it is in Northern Europe.

@Yeeyeeenation

Ай бұрын

@@BrokenBackMountains It’s North Eastern

@BrokenBackMountains

Ай бұрын

@@Yeeyeeenation According to the United Nations, Northern European countries are Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. According to my Lithuanian relatives it is Northern Europe. Of course you know better than the UN and Balts /s

@Yeeyeeenation

Ай бұрын

@@BrokenBackMountains no. All former Soviet or former Communist countries are “eastern” Europe. Poland and Czech also like to pretend they’re not Eastern European but they are

@BrokenBackMountains

Ай бұрын

@@Yeeyeeenation Sigh. You are talking from an outdated political viewpoint. Maybe listen to the UN and the actual people who live there. The UNbhas classified the Baltics as Northern since 2002. Interestingly you originally claimed they were North Eastern and now you are saying they are Eastern...

Blimey just watched the whole thing, thinking you bumped into a Native English speaker and then reread your title. Nvm its been a long week

Lithuania 👍👍👍

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

👍🙂

That girl with pretty eyes pretended not to speak english.. :)

kzread.info/dash/bejne/g2iKtqePlLedcZs.html 80% of construction and city service workers are not locals.

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your input!

@MrVolodia19

Ай бұрын

@@J.E.E Just 20 years ago Lithuania was pure exporter of workforce to rich countries. It is so weird to acknowledge, we made a jump to importers range.

come back to Armenia

Turgus and Parduotuve has the same meaning in English

@J.E.E

29 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing! 👍

A lot more people in Vilnius speak English than in Kaunas (my home city).

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your input!

@Momas6996

Ай бұрын

No in Vilnius peoples more speeks russian and polish xD provincys speek english The best

@vaportwo3339

Ай бұрын

Not true at all

@unexplainedaf7469

Ай бұрын

@@vaportwo3339 lol tada tu negyveni kaune

They all made it in Taiwan

If you asking are you speak in English geting answer yes and there end english skills 😁

It's clear that for some strange reason youngsters "don't understand" english. The final score would've been higher if you wouldn't have asked structure workers, cause they're ussually foreigners from ukraine or poland. Plus "Hales turgus" was the weirdest destination ever. Did someone challenged you to search for that place? :D

2;10sek trollybus hahahahah

Bro, the first segmemt of the video you shot on Šopeno street near central railroad/bus station is close to local needle exchange, I am always extremely upset they set it up so close to the literal gates of our nation (I agree we need harm reduction facilities but for fuck sakes not at the main station in our nation’s capital). Please do not form false impression everyone here is a fentanyl user or some alcoholic, in mainland Europe central stations in bigger cities tend to harbor drug addicts and husllers. Just take trolleybus 1, 2, 7 from main station and take 3 bus stops and get out and you will get all the beauty and vibe minus all the degenerates. PS those trolleybuses are Czechoslovakian, I think made in early 1980’s, and I don’t think they will retire them in next at least 5 years - them bitches are reliable as fuck.

Justin you need go to Grutas park

@tadasdovii8262

Ай бұрын

Kam tą sovietinę skylę kam nors rodyti?

@dyttrich

Ай бұрын

@@tadasdovii8262 Justinui turėtų patikti

Google maps

I can bet you are from England, not Scotland or Welsh.

U know where to go u just make experiment on people 😂..

No ingles 😆

Bit of hair and few quid

U know what i didnt like?? Because u r feeling higher, walking on the streets like kings . But same time u r an only English speaking person.

They speak Chinese ……

In Vilnius people know mostly two international languege: english or russian, or two both.

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your input!

Come on mate. I was teaching English in Lithuania in 95. My Lithuanian colleagues had been teaching English decades before then. Thing is ,find some foreigners who speak Lithuanian. Still not many of us about.

Vilnius is not Lithuania, over there is only about 50 procent Lithuanians

@J.E.E

6 күн бұрын

Thank you very much for your input, i appreciate it!

wtf?? is it still 2013 there.?

@Icarusz7

Ай бұрын

what do you mean?

@workingclassilliuminaty

Ай бұрын

@@Icarusz7 everything is so old, maybe its an old video?

@ORCChannel

Ай бұрын

Do you ever hear about old town?

@workingclassilliuminaty

Ай бұрын

@@ORCChannel buses and transport are like in 2010

@ORCChannel

Ай бұрын

@workingclassilliuminaty you mean that one trolleybus which vilnius are getting ashamed about ? The rest of the transport is hybrid brand new buses ..

please make a similar video about them speaking Russian :)

@DJTKarlsson

Ай бұрын

@@A.Draganov y'arr he is (maybe)

@Legef

Ай бұрын

Noone speaks Russian there😊

@psy-lion

Ай бұрын

Fk Roosia bro 😮

@mustafabulut3475

Ай бұрын

@@Legef okey :)

@mustafabulut3475

Ай бұрын

@@A.Draganov не много, ты?

go to Kaunas, you won't find a real lithuanian in Vilnius anymore...

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the advice, i am planing to go to Kaunas this summer...Stay tuned!! 👍😃

:D BIG BS. If they people tell after the question "or they speak english?" and if they say yes - he put acceptable mark count. What a mess with that BS content. BLOCK. :D

Usually people 45+ Won't speak English. But majority of young people speak good English.

@J.E.E

8 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing, i really appreciate it! 👍🙂

I watch this video and understand even more what a shithole I live in... So sad to watch :/

Да, с английским проблемы есть. Главное, чтобы русский не употребляли!

Bald and bankrupt from wish

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

No no no... Ali express is better

What a chauvinist the author. Maybe to us many people speak in inglish, but you are so impolite. Do you know how many times we did hear vu govorite po russky, or now do you speak in inglish? And you? Do you know just few words in lithuanian language?

In Vilnius You need speak russian and polish😂😂

@tadasdovii8262

Ай бұрын

Kiba tu kavianskas kad taip kalbi.

Propaganda content

@dainiusm5436

Ай бұрын

👎👎👎

Before the war, Vilnius was one of the most important Polish cities and centers of culture and science.

@dovilekozikyte6102

Ай бұрын

Vilnius is not a Polish city

@gedastankoviciute6580

Ай бұрын

After Pols took Vilnius it lost the importance and was quiet a periphery with great past and undefined future

@jarojanu1

Ай бұрын

@@gedastankoviciute6580 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius_University

@psy-lion

Ай бұрын

Poland steal Lithuania territories

@manometras

Ай бұрын

One of the least important ones. And it would have been a capital of Lithuania if Lithuanians would have managed to keep the city.

Try to go Kaunas. Heart of Lithuania ❤

@J.E.E

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the advice, i am planing to go to Kaunas this summer...Stay tuned!! 👍😃

I don't know why you find it strange that people know English in European countries, we learn English in school and watch all the films cartoons and everything in English, or if the film is in another language, we have translation and not dubbing like you in England or US and in few other countries.

Puts the other bald lad to shame so he does

@daivalaureniene167

Ай бұрын

It is interesting that you interviewed people, workers, near the station area. These are not Lithuanians. Others worked and lived here. And the majority of Lithuanians are well versed in many languages. so is English...You filmed the worst district, where the majority of Russian speakers. 😜