Apr 21, 2008
Okay, so are you ready to do another lesson? Let’s work with energy, with energy please! Woohoo! I’m excited too!
Hi there, I’m Jack and I’m Raminta and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. Today we’re in the month of April which in Lithuanian is balandis.
The common word in Lithuanian for horse is arklys. According to the Wikipedia page entitled, Ašvieniai, another word for horse is ašvienis.
Is that true? You know I – first time hear that word. Aha, interesting, the first time you heard this word, huh? It’s like really old maybe or something – you’d never understand what it…
In the old Lithuanian religion ašvieniai are twin spirits carved into the roof of some houses to protect the house from evil spirits. Sometimes ašvieniai are presented as the twin horses who pull Saulė’s chariot through the sky.
(note: in this episode we describe angliškai, lietuviškai, ispaniškai, itališkai, etcetera, as adjectives, when in fact, they are adverbs. Thanks to David of Boston for catching the error. We apologize for the mistake.)
Kalbėti is the infinitive or base verb, to speak, kaip pasakyti
lietuviškai? How do you say it in Lithuanian?
prašom pakartoti, please repeat…
I
speak
aš kalbu
you speak
(familiar)
tu kalbi
he
speaks
jis kalba
she
speaks
ji kalba
we
speak
mes kalbame
you
speak
jūs kalbate
you all
speak
jūs kalbat
all of you
speak
jūs kalbate
they speak (all males or mixed male/female group)
jie kalba
they speak (all
females)
jos kalba
Let’s go over some languages.
prašom pakartoti,
please repeat…
Lithuanian
lietuviškai
English
angliškai
Spanish
ispaniškai
ar tu nori kalbėti ispaniškai?
(do you want to speak spanish?)
aš noriu mokėtis ispanų kalbos.
(I want to learn spanish)
Malaysian
malaiziškai
French
prancūziškai
Chinese
kiniškai
Russian
rusiškai
German
vokiškai
Polish
lenkiškai
Japanese
japoniškai
Dutch
olandiškai
Italian
itališkai
Latvian
latviškai
Swahili
svahiliškai
Croatian
kroatiškai
Portuguese
portugališkai
Arabic
arabiškai
Turkish
turkiškai
Indonesian
indoneziškai
The words angliškai, lietuviškai, ispaniškai, itališkai, etcetera, are actually adjectives. Angliškai means, “in the English way.” Lietuviškai means, “in the Lithuanian fashion or style.”
In other words, to say, aš kalbu angliškai, literally means, I speak in the English way. Aš kalbu itališkai – I speak in the Italian style.
The adjectives lietuviškas, angliškas, itališkas, etcetera, describe something as being in the Lithuanian, English or Italian style. For example, a Lithuanian name – lietuviškas vardas, a Lithuanian (style) house - lietuviškas namas, an English (style) automobile – angliškas automobilis.
Can you say, “Italian word” – “itališkas žodis?”
Yeah, you can say – yes - itališkas žodis - itališkas žodis
When we say turkiškai, olandiškai, or ispaniškai, we’re saying, in effect, in the Turkish way or style, in the Dutch manner or style, in the Spanish manner or style. When we refer to the Lithuanian language as lietuviškai or English as angliškai, we’re using the plural of lietuviškas and angliškas because many people speak in the Lithuanian way or in the English manner.
Nicely done, nicely done, you speak excellent English. Oh, yeah, I know, thank you.
So, lietuviškas, angliškas, itališkas and ispaniškas are changed to lietuviškai, angliškai, itališkai and ispaniškai because many people speak these languages. We’ll go over more on the rules of using adjectives in future episodes. The important thing to remember here is that when we say, aš kalbu lietuviškai, we’re not exactly saying, I speak the Lithuanian language, we’re literally saying, I speak in the Lithuanian fashion.
Great, now let’s combine some languages with the verb
kalbėti.
To review the question word, ar, please listen to episode 0007.
prašom pakartoti, please repeat…
what languages do you
speak?
kaip jūs kalbate?
O, Raminta, prašom kalbėti lietuviškai, kaip tu kalbi?
(Oh, Raminta, please speak Lithuanian, how do you speak?)
aš kalbu lietuviškai
pakartoti prašom
aš kalbu lietuviškai
Ah, by saying, kaip tu kalbi, is this not saying, what languages do you speak, or not? No, not really, no, no, no, no, no. You would say – you would translate – kaip jūs kalbate? – how do you speak? Aha, kaip jūs kalbate, how do you speak? Yeah. So, what do you think about this translation? What languages do you speak, kaip jūs kalbate? No, it’s not correct to tell the truth.. But, it’s not that bad, you know, kaip jūs kalbate, when you – I don’t know, it’s not like really bad. So,
what languages do you
speak?
kaip jūs kalbate?
now, just to be clear, this is not a literal translation. Literally we’re saying, “how do you speak?”
I speak English
aš kalbu angliškai
what languages do you
speak?
kaip jūs kalbate?
I speak Chinese
aš kalbu kiniškai
I speak
Malaysian
aš kalbu malaiziškai
I speak English and Lithuanian
aš kalbu angliškai ir lietuviškai
I speak Spanish and Lithuanian
aš kalbu ispaniškai ir lietuviškai
I speak French and
Russian
aš kalbu prancūziškai ir rusiškai
I speak Indonesian
aš kalbu indoneziškai
do you speak
German?
ar tu kalbi vokiškai?
do you speak
Polish?
ar tu kalbi lenkiškai?
do you speak
Chinese?
ar tu kalbi kiniškai?
does he speak
Japanese?
ar jis kalba japoniškai?
does he speak
Dutch?
ar jis kalba olandiškai?
does he speak
Indonesian?
ar jis kalba indoneziškai?
does she speak
Malaysian?
ar ji kalba malaiziškai?
Great, on an upcoming episode we’ll study kalbėti some more.
(Antik the dog barking – a pug) Oh, my goodness! Antikai, stop it – at the end of the lesson! Ateik čia! (come here)
Nuostabu! Wonderful! You made it to the end of
another episode! Nuostabu!
And now Raminta will teach you how to say,
“I’m gonna kill you!”
aš tave užmušiu! (jokingly to the dog)
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