Lithuanian Out Loud 0076 - Atleiskite Pardon Me

Vienas, vienas, vienas!  Crazy guys, with you again!  Okay, Hi there, I’m Raminta and I’m Jack and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language. 

European Route 67 is a highway that runs through Lithuania on its way between Prague and Helsinki.  It’s known as the Via Baltica and the section between Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki is covered by ferries that depart 20 times daily.  Oh, so nice, you speak so well.  Oh, thank you.  To improve the Via Baltica, Poland plans to build the Augustow bypass through the Rospuda Valley Wetlands just south of the Lithuanian border.  The European Union filed an injunction against this work because of the damage it would cause to the protected wetlands.  Poland faces fines if it continues with the project.

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Hey there!  Before Raminta and I get to the episode we recorded about six weeks ago, I wanted to go over some notes.

A listener wrote in with a good question asking about some terms of endearment we went over in previous episodes; meile, mylimoji, mylimasis, brangioji, and brangusis.  The question is, can you use these terms with children as well or only with adult couples?  Meile, mylimasis and mylimoji should be used between couples.  Brangioji and brangusis can be used between adults or with children.  Thanks for the interesting question!

Another listener wrote in to correct us on something.  Lietuviškai, angliškai, ispaniškai etc. are in fact adverbs, not adjectives as we described them previously. Thanks to David in Boston for catching the mistake, we appreciate the great editing job!

Thanks to everyone who answered our call for more iTunes reviews, today we have 18 reviews and we really appreciate your efforts.  If you have an iTunes account and if you enjoy Lithuanian Out Loud, our goal is to have 50 positive reviews and we’d really appreciate you writing one for us.  If you don’t have an iTunes account, just ask someone who has one to leave your review for you.  Thanks and we’ll be anxiously watching for those reviews.  Alright!  On with the program.

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kaip jūs kalbate? (how/what do you speak?) aš kalbu ispaniškai, angliškai, ir tik truputį lietuviškai. (I speak Spanish, English and only a little Lithuanian)mmm, an interesting guy! o jūs? (and you?)aš kalbu lietuviškai, angliškai ir rusiškai – šiek tiek lenkiškai. (I speak Lithuanian, English and Russian – a little Polish)ah, tikrai? (ah, really?)šiek tiek ispaniškai (– a little Spanish)kaip idomu! (how interesting!)

To add negation to a sentence it’s easy.  Just add ne- to the beginning of the verb.  He speaks Lithuanian - Jis kalba lietuviškai.  He doesn’t speak Lithuanian – Jis nekalba lietuviškai. Prašom pakartoti, please repeat…

I don’t speak                                                       aš nekalbu

you don’t speak (familiar)                                     tu nekalbi

he doesn’t speak                                                  jis nekalba

she does not speak                                               ji nekalba

we don’t speak                                                   mes nekalbame

you don’t speak                                                  jūs nekalbate

you do not speak                                                 jūs nekalbate

you all don’t speak                                              jūs nekalbat

all of you don’t speak                                          jūs nekalbate

they don’t speak (all males or male/female group)  jie nekalba

they don’t speak (all males or male/female group)   jie nekalba

they don’t speak (all females)                               jos nekalba

Now let’s do some complete sentences – Good luck!  Sėkmės!

I don’t speak English                aš nekalbu angliškai

I don‘t speak Chinese               aš nekalbu kiniškai

I don’t speak Indonesian           aš nekalbu indoneziškai

I speak Spanish                        aš kalbu ispaniškai

I speak Spanish well                 aš gerai kalbu ispaniškai

what does she speak?               kaip ji kalba?

she speaks Italian and Latvian    ji kalba itališkai ir latviškai

I don’t speak Italian very well   aš kalbu itališkai nelabai gerai

what does she speak?               kaip ji kalba?

she speaks Swahili                    ji kalba svahiliškai

she doesn’t speak Swahili         ji nekalba svahiliškai

what do we speak?                  kaip mes kalbame?

we speak Croatian                   mes kalbame kroatiškai

we speak Croatian well            mes gerai kalbame kroatiškai

we don’t speak Croatian           mes nekalbame kroatiškai

does he speak Malaysian?        ar jis kalba malaiziškai?

what do we speak?                 kaip mes kalbame?

we speak Portuguese               mes kalbam portugališkai

we speak Portuguese well         mes gerai kalbame portugališkai

we don’t speak Portuguese      mes nekalbam portugališkai

atleiskite is a word that is basically means the same as atsiprašau

pardon me                                     atleiskite

excuse me                                     atleiskit

I’m sorry                                       atsiprašau

do you speak Arabic?                     ar jūs kalbate arabiškai?

I’m sorry, I don’t speak Arabic very well  atleiskite, aš kalbu arabiškai nelabai gerai

do you speak Turkish?                   ar jūs kalbat turkiškai?

what do you all of you speak?         kaip jūs kalbate?

do all of you speak Lithuanian?        ar jūs kalbat lietuviškai?

excuse me, I speak very little Lithuanian  atleiskite, aš labai mažai kalbu lietuviškai

what do all of you speak?               kaip jūs kalbate?

do you all speak English?                ar jūs kalbat angliškai?

do you speak Indonesian?              ar jūs kalbate indoneziškai?

pardon me, no, I don’t speak Indonesian  atleiskite, ne, aš nekalbu indoneziškai

what do they speak?                       kaip jie kalba?

they speak Spanish                         jie kalba ispaniškai

they don’t speak Spanish                 jie nekalba ispaniškai

what do they speak?                        kaip jos kalba?

they speak Chinese                         jos kalba kiniškai

they don‘t speak Chinese                jos nekalba kiniškai

excuse me, I don‘t speak French     atleiskite, aš nekalbu prancūziškai.

excuse me, I don‘t speak Russian    atleiskite, aš nekalbu rusiškai.

excuse me, I don‘t speak Polish      atleiskite, aš nekalbu lenkiškai.

excuse me, I don‘t speak English     atleiskite, aš nekalbu angliškai.

do they speak French?                    ar jie kalba prancūziškai?

do they speak English?                   ar jos kalba angliškai?

yes, they speak English                   taip, jos kalba angliškai

do they speak Malaysian?               ar jos kalba malaiziškai?

they speak Indonesian                     jos kalba indoneziškai

but they don’t speak French            bet jos nekalba prancūziškai

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

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