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Okay, well, we’ve got a lot to do so we should get started.  Okay, no blah, blah, blah, blah.  Hi there, I’m Jack and I’m Raminta and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language.  We’re not teachers, but we do the best we can.

Do remember the word for the month of March in Lithuanian? …kovas.

How cute!  Do you like this little bird kovas?  Oh, I love kovas, I’m waiting for kovas so bad in Lithuania.

According to the Wikipedia page entitled, The Hill of Witches or Raganų Kalnas is an outdoor sculpture gallery in Juodkrantė, Lithuania.  The Hill of Witches is on a forested sand dune on the Curonian Spit near the town of Neringa.  On the hill you can find about 80 wood sculptures and a series of trails.  The artists are following a tradition of woodcarving from the Samogitian culture.  The artwork depicts characters from Lithuanian folklore and the traditional Lithuanian religion.  This is a must-see part of Lithuania and admission is free.  We’ll paste a link to a photo gallery of the artwork on the Lithuanian Out Loud blogpage.

Very nice.  On this episode we’re going to work on the sounds of letters.  In episode 0050 we introduced the accusative case or galininkas.  Some listeners have been asking us to clarify the sounds of letters that are associated with nosinė.  These are the letters that have a little tail on them and they have a long sound.  What does nosinė mean?  Well, I read somewhere that it means, nasal but I can’t find the reference.  Nosinė also translates as handkerchief.  Let’s focus on the difference in sound between nosinė and non-nosinė letters…

Lietuva                      Lietuvą
Palanga                     Palangą
gatvė                         gatvę
kavinė                       kavinę
bokštas                      bokštą
parkas                       parką
pilis                           pilį
automobilis                automobilį
kambarys                  kambarį
traukinys                   traukinį
muziejus                   muziejų
Sidnėjus                    Sidnėjų

So, again here is the accusative case.  Words with vardininkas endings change to galininkas endings.

-a changes to –ą nosinė
-ė changes to –ę nosinė
-as changes to –ą nosinė
-is changes to –į nosinė
-ys changes to –į nosinė
-us changes to -ų nosinė

Now, here are the sounds one last time

-a   –ą
-ė   –ę
-as  –ą
-is   –į
-ys  –į
-us  -ų

We hope that helps clear it up a bit for you.

Here are some more sounds.  Don’t worry too much about learning all these new words.  All we want you to learn here are the new Lithuanian vocal sounds.  The combination of the letters, c, and, h, makes a sound like, ch.  Here are some examples…
prašom pakartoti, please repeat…

chameleon                      chameleonas
chaos                             chaosas
chemistry                       chemija
surgeon                          chirurgas
chorus                            choras
chronic                           chroniškas
hooligan                         chuliganas
ha ha ha                         cha cha cha

to jingle                          džerškėti
jazz                                džiazas
jungle                             džiunglės
jeans                              džinsai
joy                                 džiaugsmas
a Lithuanian folk-dance    džigūnas
a dryer                           džioviklis
a thin, emaciated person  džiūsna

Kaip aš (like me), Oh sorry!

a piece of dry bread        džiuvėsis
toast                              džiuvėsiukas

Don’t worry too much about learning all these words, we just want you to be familiar with these Lithuanian sounds.

Šaunu!  Great!  You made it to the end of another episode!  Šaunu!

The Hill of Witches or Raganų Kalnas
http://www.pbase.com/mkuncaitis/witches_hill

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I’m Jack and I’ve never met a Lithuanian I didn’t like.  Viso gero!  Sudie!

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