Are these connections I'm making helpful? If you like what I'm doing, support the channel and my journey! www.buymeacoffee.com/rhapsodyinlingo 🌏 Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months free here ➼ go.nordvpn.net/aff_c?offer_id=808&aff_id=91200&url_id=25154 It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! ✌

@dannydetonator

9 ай бұрын

Hi Israel, fascinating watch as you try to grasp one the oldest languages in Europe, with unperceptable connection to indo culture. If you ever going to neighbouring Latvia, i could be your guide . L

I am simple Latvian, I see Lithuanian - I push "like" button.

@zaliasvelnias9085

9 ай бұрын

nice🙌

@evaldasa1891

9 ай бұрын

We Lithuanian are simple as well - we see Latvian - we click "like" button.

@vaidas_ma

9 ай бұрын

likewise, my potato brother :)

@Kannaxx

9 ай бұрын

Tā tas ir :)

@Svitojus

9 ай бұрын

Braliukas!

I live in Lithuania. It is always nice when foreigners are interested in Lithuanian culture and the Lithuanian language. Good luck to you!

@PutinGas

Ай бұрын

We need more bitches there.

Sveikas atvykęs ir sėkmės! Sveikinimai iš kaimynų Latvijos

Linkiu tau sėkmės!

Welcome to Lithuania, and good luck our language is not easy even for natives :) On the similarities to Slavic languages like polish, we live close and have quite a long common history, so a little bit of language mixing is expected.

I’m learning Lithuanian and it’s really hard but I’m enjoying it

Congratulations for your national holiday on 6th July Lithuainia from your friends in Germany

Good luck! As Lithuanian myself I can say we Lithuanians find it very hard ourselves to learn Lithuanian at school.

@fidenemini111

9 ай бұрын

Because of grammar.

@marieljackman1850

9 ай бұрын

⁠@@fidenemini111 Nothing special about the Lithuanian grammar ( if you speak Albanian , Czech , Slovakian , Belarusian , Serbian, Slovenian, Polish, Icelandic, Ukrainian, Latvian, Greek etc ) . People speaking any of the Romance languages will find it hard to master the case system. On the other hand, Lithuanians will struggle to master the complex verb system of these languages .

@marieljackman1850

9 ай бұрын

Same happens with my mother language. People fuck up the adjectives , the pronouns, the prepositions, the accentuation , the spelling , the endings of some grammatical cases … It will get even worse.

@dariuslavickas4844

9 ай бұрын

😂😂

@zinomanezinomybe8244

9 ай бұрын

​@@marieljackman1850i live in Lithuania and i still have to google how to write words because of letters that sound similar (p-b, k-g and so on)

I'm planing on moving to Lithuania to learn the language too, I have a Lithuanian family, and all of they prefer to speak english to teach the language, and it very hard, never really manage to get outside material outside Lithuania to learn, I wish you luck on your journey.

@RhapsodyinLingo

9 ай бұрын

If you do want to self study, you can easily get digital copies of Colloquial or Sėkmės online! Tho being here is amazing, I get to familiarise myself with the grammar and vocabulary through looking at signs and doing my groceries, and I get to try ordering things

@DatlyX

9 ай бұрын

If you do i suggest taking a look at lithuania explained he is from canada that moved to lithuania and is making content about his journey and other stuff, if im not mistaken he might have some lithuanian blood but i'm but not 100% sure

Sėkmės! Good luck! 😉🤝

I'm really happy and proud someone is interested in my native language. Ačiū!

Personally, I'm Lithuanian and am very much sued to our country and language being unknown. I think this goes for a lot of people from small countries, when you learn their language or even talk about their country it's a huge compliment.

can't believe how good your pronunciation sounds already. Keep it up! 🇱🇹

Hi! Thank you for your video. Absolutely thrilled how you noticed immediately that consonants can be pallatalized. Usually Lithuanians don't realize our consonants have two versions because that's just how we acquire the language from the very beginning, but then it turns into a headache for foreigners because there's suddenly a game of is it pallatalized or isn't?😂 Anyway, thank you for giving this language a chance. It was really interesting to see how systematically you approach it, and also, very clear pronunciation! 👍

from my experience as a lithuanian, they will try to speak english to you a lot, you might have to force them to speak lithuanian :).

@RhapsodyinLingo

10 ай бұрын

Oh no, even in Lithuania? My friends and I call this "the Scandinavian treatment".

@simona_merkinin

10 ай бұрын

@@RhapsodyinLingo sorry! We probably just want to make it easier for you, but if that ever bothers you just explain that you are trying to learn. Goodluck!

@RhapsodyinLingo

10 ай бұрын

Of course! Happens a lot nowadays, when everyone speaks English :') that's why my first phrases are always "I want to practise" (and kava su pienu be laktozės)

@taurasjucys8827

9 ай бұрын

Try to play a fool, tell the random local: -Atsiprašau, aš nekalbu angliškai. :)@@RhapsodyinLingo

Dude, i think i saw you in a bus 34 a few days ago:DD and now i got your vid recommended! Thats crazy, good luck

@RhapsodyinLingo

9 ай бұрын

Say labas next time 😂

@benikobrazas

9 ай бұрын

Sure🤗

Good luck! It's a hard language even for us native speakers, but it's definitely special. The good thing is that it's very forgiving. What I mean by that is that lithuanians will understand you even if you mix up the case endings or if you stress the words wrong.

@RhapsodyinLingo

9 ай бұрын

Can confirm, have experienced that already :)

@Bdrbs

9 ай бұрын

Its forgiving language because of almost free sentence structure. Synthetic languages tend to have this perk.

I think the Lithuanian accentuation is the hardest to learn, even natives in professional setting (including politicians and tv presenters) often make mistakes placing accent in correct spot. It is often joked that the only ones speaking correct Lithuanian are Lithuanian linguists 😅

@RhapsodyinLingo

9 ай бұрын

So that's why our teacher decidedly skipped all of it 😭 all I can do is imitate

@Rasytojas1980

9 ай бұрын

Suvalkija do it right

@aidasmatulaitis5175

9 ай бұрын

Thats true. I know a lot of Lithuanians who can't even speak lithuanian language, they speak broken language and using a lot of russian, polish and english stolen words.

@Rasytojas1980

9 ай бұрын

@@aidasmatulaitis5175 that’s Vilnius

@secretperson8321

9 ай бұрын

​@@aidasmatulaitis5175speak for yourself.

as a native lithuanian (and someone who struggled with my lithuanin grammar classes in school) - props to you man.

Wow! I love the way you can see similarities to all those other languages. Your pronunciation is very good!

6:10 In general, "You read as you see".

Lithuanian here -- good luck learning the language! I can attest that many natives have troubles learning Lithuanian at schools, not to mention of using the language in full scope properly. I suspect due to deep grammatical variety and complex vocabularly. I myself have interest in learning it at a deeper level. BTW, the The Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian, is one of the most extensive lexicographical works in the world (comparable to Oxford English Dictionary).

Some recomendations.Visit trakai while its still summer its next to vilnius or near and its really beutifull.Overall the castle and lake. Also the best thing you can do is what you are doing.learning the language.Lithuanians like me are alot friendlier and chatier when people talk to us in lithuanian or try to learn it.

@kastytisn6557

9 ай бұрын

You didn't know that countries, cities, etc. are names capitalized? Only one name in the world is written with a lowercase letter, russia....

It is always a pleasure to hear that people from other countries are intestined in our language! And it was interesting to see the compare between other languages. Good luck in learning Lithuanian!

Sėkmės studijuojant!

I am a simple latvian, when i see lithuanian - i explode ''like'' button immideately.

Subscribed! Best of luck learning Lithuanian from a Lithuanian who studied in Hong Kong and lives in the UK ☺

Lithuanian is my 2nd language. I think your Lithuanian accent is fantastic.

Ą Ę Į etc are called nasal as they longer and they kind of remains of when they there sounds "an", "en", and then just became ą, ę keeping length of pronunciation but dropping the n. Like way back word oak must have sounded like anžuolas, but with time passing and language changing it just became ąžuolas, that is long Ą but no longer clearly pronounced n. Some dialects did keep the closeness to "an" in pronunciation but not the common language

Best wishes with learning Lithuanian. I've often thought of learning this language out of interest because I heard it was the most similar to sanskrit, like you sid, but I haven't come across enough Lithuanian people in my environment to make me think it would be useful. I look forward to seeing a future video and hearing about your experiences. Will you be at the Polyglot Conference in Budapest?

@martavdz4972

9 ай бұрын

I can recommend Laisves TV. It's an online TV that does good analyses and satirical programmes and it's become better than any American late night show. If it was in English, it's be known worldwide. Brilliant, insightful, imaginative and hillarious. It's worth learning Lithuanian just for it. (I'm Czech, with a Master's degree in Baltic Studies and I use Laisves TV to keep up with both the language and the news ☺️ )

Good luck learning! You seem to already have the hang of it and your accent is very good so it won't be very difficult for you I believe 😊

Hey!! It's so cool you're learning lithuanian, it''s so underappreciated. Had no idea they offer courses/scholarships like that so i might offer them to some of my friends!:D I'll give you some details/tips i saw from this video The Ą Ę Ų being "nasal" is not true as you said, they are just "stronger" ( for example Ū and Ų sounds exactly the same), the reason why it might translate as nasal is because it's called " *insert letter* nosinė" nosinė means napkin/tissue, but it comes from the word nosis-nose :D And theres this other thing my lithuanian teacher taught me back in highschool i think(?) - there's a difference how to pronounce the letter O, depending on whether the word is a lithuanian or an international word. If it is Lithuanian, the O is going to be stronger and longer. If it's an international word, it will be shorter and lighter. Might not apply to EVERYTHING but works for the most part. Like "mOtina"(mother) and "atomas" (atom). I don't know how much of help it is, but:D it's out there now

@RhapsodyinLingo

9 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, I do notice that the o can vary a lot (even more than the a), especially how it's generally more open than I expect, but didn't notice that pattern. Ačiū

@Bdrbs

9 ай бұрын

Stuff about nasal letters is incorrect. Its called "nasal" because of the sound coming from your mouth and kinda your nose at the same time. Its a specific sound thats why its called "nasal" letter. And indeen in modern Lithuanian its no longer the case but in old Lithuanian nasal letters were pronounced using mouth and nose at the same time. Its a historical relic now nothing more.

@martavdz4972

9 ай бұрын

@@RhapsodyinLingo The "nasal" vowels used to be pronounced as nasal (like in Polish or French), but later, they changed to long vowels. So you have a weird situation where letters denoting nasal vowels actually denote long vowels. But in reality, they aren't always pronounced as long.

as a local Lithuanian good luck soldier im in highschool and still dieing proud of u

Great pronunciation already. Good luck and enjoy!

Good luck mate. As a russian speaking lithuanian I found a lot of similarities too, even with old russian, like esi and еси etc as we all other slavic languages like polish or ukranian dekoju дякую dziekuje. There are way more than I was expecting before I started to analyse that

Good luck! Ive been learning for a bit over a year and while its definitely not easy but its super beautiful and its definitely worth it.

You are fast learner, so nice to hear someone willing to learn you language. Good luck :)

Video is short, but your skills are showing well. With those, I am sure you will be pretty successful.

Sveikas atvykęs! Welcome

Best wishes!

Wow this was amazing to watch :)

As far as I rememeber, Lithuanian letters with that tiny hook (ogoniek) used to be nasal, but they lost the "n" sound throughout the years. It still has words that have both forms, for example "to endure" in Lithuanian means "kęsti" (spelled as simple "e" but longer), but there's another perfectly usable and common form "kentėti" (this one sounds like Polish "ę"). So that's that. By the way, I studied linguistics in Lancaster once, they had very good linguistics department and professors were quite familiar with this language, naturally.

@ubangis1

9 ай бұрын

You"re basically right (about ą,ę,ų,į). They are not nasals at all. They're simply long open sounds, f. e. kąsti sounds like English "last". This always frustrates our neighbours poles, where these letters are literally nasal. And also gives headaches to our pupils and foreign students, as the rules for using these letters are a nightmare!

@antasosam8486

7 ай бұрын

@@ubangis1 kąsti - kanda? Ha?

Sveikinimai !!!

BEST OF LUCK🎉

Daaamn, your pronunciation is good!

Your prunounciation is great! Keep up the good work! Subscribed and look forward to seeing ALL future videos!

Perfect pronunciation! Good luck! Sekmes!❤

Good luck in your journey! Interesting insights at the end of the video

Good luck! And good luck for others who also want to learn Lithuanian!

Your pronunciation is amazing already! best of luck in Lithuania!

Great stuff man, you seem to learn get the gist of it very fast.

Perfect - YOU DEFINITELY CAN

You're a talented person, good luck and enjoy Vilnius

You're honestly doing great progress for just starting. I wish you the best of luck, even I fumbled my tests in the language, and I'm a native speaker lol

Good luck mate, Lithuanian living in the UK (my Lithuanian is getting worse, but definitely need to practise it more so I don't lose it)

Good luck, man! My cousin also took summer courses in Lithuania - Vilnius University.

Dude, ą and į in Lithuanian ones were nasal. Then they reduced to just specific long sound vowel . Honestly, I read Lithuanian į as "in" and ą as "am", like they were sounding few centuries earler and it sometimes helped me to understand a grammar, including a case system. Yes, it is very similar to Slavic in grammar and vocabulary. I am native Ukrainian and Russian speaker.

@martavdz4972

9 ай бұрын

Nope, it isn't "very similar to Slavic", it's SOMEWHAT similar to Slavic. There are lots of similarities in the basic grammar principles, but in vocabulary - not so much. You'll find lots of similarities if you look for them, but on the whole, it isn't that similar. (I'm a Slavic speaker, too, and I have a degree in Baltic Studies.)

The "tails" prolongue the vowels 😊. Good learning!!

Very interesting to see how you compare Lithuanian to other languages!

Hey I think I saw you on the bus today! Best of luck with the language😄

@RhapsodyinLingo

9 ай бұрын

Thanks 😂 say hi next time

Me my mom and brother visit family in Lithuania

Nice!

Lithuanian here! It really warms my heart when someone decides to voluntarily suffer through learning our language but mate you've even heard of the Singing Revolution! Haha anyways, I hope you enjoy your experience in Lithuania!

Great and amazing!!! Good Luck! I visited Lithunia during 13-15 June this year and have to say that I really love this country a lot. My friends from Thailand like Lithunia - Our first time of our life. I have been teached only one word: Lietuva means Lithuania.. by a nice lady that we bough a souvinir in Vilnius. People is very kind, freindly and helpful. I will visit Lithuania agian next summer 2024 in order to explore more. Thank you for your sharing.🙏😇 Best Wishes from STOCKHOLM - SWEDEN 🌼🌻🌷🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲

Thx for visiting my country ;)

your pronunciation is good

Bro! If you learned to speak po Polsku with all its diminutives and grammar idiosyncrasies and genders and cases, Lithuanian should be a breeze! My dad was Lithuanian and Polish (from that corner of Poland) and my mom was Masovian Polish. Even though I was born in the States, I learned Polish first. Dad knew enough Lithuanian to get by but never instilled it on us. I would LOVE to learn Lithuanian!! I'll be keeping an eye on your progress. Linkiu tau viso geriausio!!

Sėkmės!

Cool to hear, and judging by the date of the video... ... sveikas atvykęs pas mus į Lietuvą, tikiuosi tau čia patiks! :)

Labas. Good luck to you

9:21 ar can also be used as 'is' in the correct form of a sentence. To make it less confusing, I would highly reccommend using 'arba' for or, it is the exact same word but will make your life a lot easier.

7:47 Your accent is even better already than the japanese guy who has been studying for several years!!! I truly mean it!!

It’s a beautiful country! Make sure u visited Palanga!

Wow, one more foreigner that is willing to learn Lithuanian going to my subscribed chanel list! Be careful, you might not want to leave Lithuania ;)

@RhapsodyinLingo

9 ай бұрын

Yes I am absolutely worried about that prospect

Good luck, hope someday you gonna learn Latvian language too :)

You are cool! Subscription button pressed. Sėkmės!

ą - is "a with a napkin" :) its just a little bit longer than standard "a", the same goes for i/į, e/ę, u/ų, u even has "long u" - ū. But all they are basically the same. And depend more on position inside word then actual spelling difference.

Sėkmės mokantis!

I saw one guy from marocco who spent one year in lithuanian jail and was speaking fluent lithuanian. This amazed me.

Im Lithuanian, big respect for learning it!

Izraeli, šaunuolis esi.Sėkmės linkiu tau.Valio!

Holly Cows! your pronunciation is very good. Writing in Lithuanian is even more difficult than speaking. Kosmic language. ;))

While reading English texts, I have encountered quite a few words that are close to the old British vocabulary words. Here I add some of them: bairn - bernas, bee - bitė; bellow - bliauti, berate - barti; blank - blankus, bleat - bliauti, bulb - bulvė, bumble - bumbėti, but - bet, cade - kadagys; clack - klegėt, close - glaustas; ham -Heim - kaimas; cloth - kloti, crate - kraitelė, croak - krenkšti, cry - kriokt, crush - krušt, do - daryt, draw - traukti, dripp - dribti, thunder - dundėti; eat - ėsti, fall - pulti, fill - pilt; float - plaukti; get -gaut; gill - dauba (giluma), grind - grūsti, grip, grab - griebt, grope - grabalioti, groove - griovelis, grovel - griūti; gurgle - gurguliuoti, gully - gili dauba, griovelis, harsh - aršus; help - gelbėti, hole -ola, you - jūs, joke - juoktis; lap- lakt; lean - lenkti, liesas, let - leist, lip - lūpa, lull - liūliuoti, mind - manyti, moor - maurai, mother - moteris, motina, murmur - murmėti, night - naktis, or - ar; nose - nosis; pap (outd) - papo spenelis; per - per, persecute -persekioti, pestle - piesta; plumule - plunksnele; pot - puodas; ride - raitas, ruck - raukti; roan - rainas (širmas); roop - rypauti; spurn -spirti, scourge -skriaust, scuttle - skuosti, seek - siekt, senile - senas; sew - siūti, sieve - sietas, sit - sėst, sleaze - šlykštus; slide, slid - slidu, slink - slinkt, slog - slogus, slosh - šliukšt, slough - slogus, smug - smagu, snooz-snausti, soot - suodis, speed - spėti, spew -spjaudalai, vėmalai, spit - spjaut, sway -svaigt, swerve -svyruoti, swivel -svyruoti, tack - takas, think - dingoti; thorn - durti; throw - trenkt, thwart - tverti, utter - uturuoti, vie, vying - vajus, vomit - vemt, withe - vysti, wilt -vysti, werth - vertė, word - vardas, writhe - raitytis, wrath - rūstis; wreath - rišti..... and many of others. Respect.

🙌👏How has it been so far?! I'm from Latvia, speaking both Lithuanian and Latvian.

Fwiw the old glossika Lithuanian course is really good if you are looking for any extra resources

@RhapsodyinLingo

9 ай бұрын

Agreed, I'm focusing on the summer course rn but I might continue with that when I'm home

Regarding your name - my guess is you (as a person with that name) can choose if you want "is" or "as" added to your name. So Israelis or Israelas (both male suffixes). And since "Izraelis" is a country name in Lithuanian, I'd say Israelas is a "better" option that could help to avoid some confusion. But of course, it is up to you!

@slifer0081

9 ай бұрын

Izraelis skamba geriau

@kristinyt

9 ай бұрын

It sound more familiar, because it is a country name. Israelas sounds more like a name of a person to me.@@slifer0081

@NeritaPokvytyte

8 ай бұрын

It’s absolutely Israelis. Izraelas wouldn’t be correct at all. It’s about the ending of an international word or an individual name. If the last connecting consonant sounds soft then we go for -is, if it’s hard, then -as, or more complicated - us, -ius. For example Wolfgang-as Amadėj-us, Mozart-as.

🇱🇹 good luck, not easy task 🤟

Could you link to the program you mentioned? I’m of Lithuanian descent, working on gaining my Lithuanian citizenship. A program where you’re taught Lithuanian and even get paid sounds like exactly what I need for my next steps.

You have beautifull pronunciation. And great ability to compare languages you know already. Of course Lithuanian is not that original, being indoeuropean language. Also it has a lot of borrowed words from other languages, mostly Polish, sometimes German. Still it has old, archaic layers, some of them are already vanishing and even we, native speakers, are lost sometimes. As many had said before me - use those few Lithuanian words wherewer you go, we appreciate very high foreigners who dear that :) . Linkiu sėkmės!

Fun fact: in Lithuanian, similar to latin, you can rearrange words in a sentence and have the sentence have the same meaning (the difference is only the emphasis, as the last word is generally emphasized) and be grammatically correct. Example: I went to the shop. Aš ėjau į parduotuvę. Aš į parduotuvę ėjau. Ėjau į parduotuvę aš. Ėjau aš į parduotuvę, Į parudotuvę ėjau aš. Į parduotuvę aš ėjau.

@vytautassulcas6494

9 ай бұрын

yes, but.... every case has some specific: Aš į parduotuvę ėjau.

@Mindawga

9 ай бұрын

@@vytautassulcas6494 I mentioned this in my comment. The last word is emphasized. Thanks for pointing it out further though!

Labas welcome to lithuania :)

Sveikas atvykęs į Lietuvių kalbos pasaulį. Rasi kažką tokio kas neturi pabaigos :)) tai galūnės ir kirčiavimas. Netikiu, kad įveiksi ;))

@martavdz4972

9 ай бұрын

As esu ceke, lietuviskai mokausi 22 metu, turiu baltistikos magistro laipsni. Galunes nera taip jau baisios, galima ismokti. Bet kirciavimas tai jo - viso gyvenimo neuztenka, kad uzsienietis ismoktu 😂 Vis dar daug zodziu neteisingai kirciuoju.

6:42 these are not pitch accent. It's stress accent. Focus on stressing the syllable not on the pitch. The pitch will come by itself. The different markings show if it is short or long stress. Something like that 😁 We use 3 of these diacritics ◌́ ◌̀ ◌̃ in Lithuanian.

could you share the link for the Lithuanian language course you talked about? I'm Malaysian & am really interested too!

@RhapsodyinLingo

9 ай бұрын

I have the link for this year's courses, might be different next year! studyin.lt/learn-lithuanian/

Israel: rich and historically important choral culture me: wtf since when is there a coral reef in the Baltic Sea?

@RhapsodyinLingo

10 ай бұрын

😂😂 I literally thought the same thing when I rewatched it 5 minutes ago

Damn your pronouciation is really good for a starter

Sveikas atvykęs į Lietuvą :) sėkmės moksle :) please translete it for your self ;)

Your pronunciation is excellent, usually when foreigners try to speak Lithuanian you can instantly hear a very dense accent, you seem to barely have any from the get go.

Šaunuolis :)