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Lithuanian Out Loud is a podcast series designed for fans of the Lithuanian language. Come along with native Lithuanian author/lawyer Raminta and her North-American husband, Jack. They'll teach you Lithuanian along with tidbits about the history and culture of Raminta's homeland - Lietuva!
Music: Vieux Farka Toure - Ana {Pocket Remix} by pocketproductions (c) copyright 2007 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/pocketproductions/8916 Ft: Pocket (Richard Jankovich)
Dec 17, 2007
Hey! Hey! Hey! This is Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where Raminta is the native speaker and I’m the beginner. Today we’ll learn numbers one through ten. On the episode after this we’ll learn some more ways of saying thank you for things and on the episode after that we’ll start working on numbers from eleven on up. But before we get to any of that, here’s a message from Eglė in the port city of Klaipėda, Lithuania.
Hello everybody, this is Eglė from Klaipėda, you’re listening to Lithuanian Out Loud with Raminta and Jack, enjoy!
Thank you very much Eglė, that was very sweet of you to say that for the show. Ačiū labai! In case you weren’t aware of it, eglė is the Lithuanian word for “fir tree."
Now, here’s a lesson that Raminta and I recorded a few weeks ago. Enjoy!
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Hello everybody! This is Jack and I’m Raminta and you’re listening to Lithuanian Out Loud, the world’s first Lithuanian language lessons in a podcast series!
According to the World Health Organization, of the ten nations
who have the highest rate of suicide, Finland comes in at 10th
place. Number nine, Kazakhstan, eight, Ukraine, seven,
Slovenia. Coming in at sixth place is Hungary, at fifth,
Estonia and at fourth place is Latvia.
I think you see where I’m going with this.
Now the final three nations with the highest suicide rate. In
third place is Belarus, in second is Russia and the number one
nation with the highest suicide rate in the world
is…Lithuania. What’s up with that?
According to the World Health Organizaton statistics, in the year 2000, 75 men and 16 women of every thousand people kill themselves in Lithuania. Evidently a number of health organizations are studying the problem but no solution as of yet.
Now let’s spend a few lessons talking about numbers. Yep, you knew it was coming sooner or later!
Unfortunately, we have both masculine and feminine numbers. Now, don’t get depressed, once you learn them you can show off to your friends. Here we go! Let’s do masculine numbers first.
please repeat
out loud
prašom pakartoti
nulis
zero
nulis
zero
vienas
one
vienas
one
du
two
du
two
trys
three
keep in mind this number is spelled with the letter “y" or y
ilgoji, so it has the long ‘eee’ sound, not the short “i" sound.
trys
three
keturi
four
keturi
four
penki
five
penki
five
šeši
six
šeši
six
septyni
seven
septyni
seven
aštuoni
eight
aštuoni
eight
devyni
nine
devyni
nine
dešimt
ten
dešimt
ten
keep in mind, dešimt is the same in masculine or feminine numbers
now the feminine numbers, please say them out loud
nulis
zero
nulis
zero
viena
one
viena
one
dvi
two
dvi
two
trys
three
trys
three
keturios
four
keturios
four
penkios
five
penkios
five
šešios
six
šešios
six
septynios
seven
septynios
seven
aštuonios
eight
aštuonios
eight
devynios
nine
devynios
nine
dešimt
ten
dešimt
ten
Okay, Raminta, let’s hear you count - one to ten really fast!
Labai gerai, ačiū, labanakt – labanakt