Lithuanian Out Loud 0031 - Veidas Face

In Lithuanian, veidas, means "face."  Are you familiar with the popular Lithuanian magazine called Veidas?  It's amazingly similar to the U.S. magazines Time and Newsweek, bursting with full color photos, national and international news, charts, graphs, entertainment news, history, etc. My hubby discovered this gem when he visited the webpsite Balticshop.com looking for a gift for some close Lithuanian friends.  One way to get a subscription to Veidas is to go to Balticshop.com.  They have a wide selection of Lithuanian gifts.  Balticshop.com will also send you a large, full color catalog full of photographs of their Lithuanian gifts.  They're based in the U.S. and no I wasn't paid nor did I receive any compensation to mention them on Lithuanian Out Loud.  The Veidas magazine subscription, as I recall, wasn't cheap.  I think it was around $200.00 but our friends get the magazine every week for a year.  It's a special gift for a special friend. Okey dokey!  On the last lesson we went over feminine nouns in the genitive case or kilmininkas.  Let's do some more on the same theme so that we've really got it. As we learned in episode 0025, Aš amerikietė is a female saying, "I'm American" Aš anglė is a female saying, "I'm English" Aš lietuvė is a female saying, "I'm Lithuanian" Aš rusė is a female saying, "I'm Russian" But, amerikietė can also mean the American woman or girl, anglė can also mean the Englishwoman or girl, lietuvė can also mean the Lithuanian woman or girl and rusė can also mean the Russian woman or girl.  Does it all make sense? So, let's take the Lithuanian word for wife – žmona.. The name of the wife or the vardas of the žmona The word žmona changes to žmonos prašom pakartoti please repeat The wife's name                      žmonos vardas The American woman's name   amerikietės vardas The Englishwoman's name         anglės vardas The Lithuanian girl's name         lietuvės vardas The Russian girl's name            rusės vardas Alright!  Now I think we have a very good understanding of how to change feminine nouns into the genitive case or kilmininkas. Ready for a challenge?  Please try to say it in Lithuanian Out Loud before and after me.  Here we go!  Prašom pakartoti… The American girl's book              amerikietės knyga The English girl's name                 anglės vardas The Russian woman's house         rusės namas The Lithuanian woman's brother   lietuvės brolis The Japanese woman's sister         japonės sesuo The Italian girl's room                   italės kambarys The Latvian girl's city                   latvės miestas The Polish woman's restaurant     lenkės restoranas Raminta's book                           Ramintos knyga Austėja's amber                          Austėjos gintaras The wife's room                          žmonos kambarys Sandra's restaurant                     Sandros restoranas Kristina's sister                            Kristinos sesuo Raminta's husband                      Ramintos vyras Austėja's house                          Austėjos namas Sandra's brother                         Sandros brolis Raminta's city                            Ramintos miestas Kristina's amber                         Kristinos gintaras Woo hoo!  Did you remember the word for amber?  Okay, that was bit unfair.  Please play this section over and over again till you've got it down pat. On the next episode of Lithuanian Out Loud we'll start in on the genitive case using masculine nouns. email Raminta and Jack at: [email protected] Lithuanian language lessons at the University of Vilnius: http://www.lsk.flf.vu.lt/index.php/pageid/154 Animation of Gediminas Castle or Gedimino Pilis: http://paulius.vkt.lt/pilis/files/pilis.swf