lietuvių kalba
Language Facts:
Speakers: 3 million
Family: Baltic
Status: Official in Lithuania
Family: Baltic
Status: Official in Lithuania
Script: Latin
- The Lithuanian alphabet will be familiar enough for anyone coming from a language written in the Latin alphabet, but does include many diacritics (for example, Ę, Ą, Ė, Į )
- Pitch accent is an important feature, much like Finnish or Japanese.
- Lithuanian inflection can be complicated. There are two genders and nouns have seven noun cases.
Learn Lithuanian:
Books:
Teach Yourself Complete Lithuanian – large and easy introduction to learning Lithuanian.
Colloquial Lithuanian – an expensive book, but a good resource for spoken and everyday Lithuanian.
Youtube:
Basic Lithuanian by Spoken Lithuanian – This is the place to start, a two part series on the most basic words and phrases.
Lithuanian Lessons – 240 video playlist with short lessons.
Podcasts:
Lithuanian Out Loud