Monday, July 28, 2008

Learnin' Lithuanian

Travis and I are planning on going back to Lithuania in the Summer of 2009 for a follow-up to the mission trip we took in 2007. It will be an orchestra mission trip with many others from the Atlanta area. We really enjoyed our time there, but the language is tricky. So, we have decided to try to learn as much as we possibly can before next year. I have been searching the web for some Lithuanian lessions and have found a few so far:

Lithuanian Language Lessons - simple but good
http://www.slic.org.au/Language/LLL_index.swf

The Lithuanians - Saturday School - has a text recommended, which I think we'll buy.
http://www.thelithuanians.com/school.html

Accompanying Yahoo Group for The Lithuanians webpage
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LithuanianLanguage/

Teach Yourself Lithuanian Course - for purchase through Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Yourself-Lithuanian-Complete-Package-Courses/dp/007147840X/ref=pd_sim_b_1

Beginner's Lithuanian - the recommended book for the lesson site mentioned above
http://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Lithuanian-Foreign-Language/dp/078180678X/ref=pd_sim_b_2

Pimsleur Lithuanian - another book/CD package to teach Lithuanian
http://www.amazon.com/Pimsleur-Lithuanian-Understand-Language-Schusters/dp/0743550641/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217271628&sr=1-4

Colloquial Lithuanian: The Complete Course for Beginners
http://www.amazon.com/Colloquial-Lithuanian-Complete-Course-Beginners/dp/0415427088/ref=pd_sbs_b_2

Wikipedia Entry on Lithuanian Language Constructs
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lithuanian

Before You Know It - free downloadable language software (lite version) - full version costs $
http://www.byki.com/

NEW! 11/7/08 (I've known about this website/podcast for a while, but forgot to post it in my original post!) - Lithuanian Out Loud - http://lithuanian.libsyn.com/

As I find more resources, I will add them to this post for future reference

2 comments:

Amanda said...

Wow. You are really serious about learning some Lithuanian. Chris taught me some words from the trip but I forgot them all. :)

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