Lithuanian Out Loud 0054 Beg - Žinoma Of Course

Do you have time for this short lesson now, on žinoma?  Sure!  Žinoma! 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.  Don't we dear?  We do.  We do… Dangus is the Lithuanian word for the sky or heaven.  Dievas is the word for a god.  According to the article, "Lithuanian Mythology" written by Gintaras Beresnevičius of the Lithuanian Institute of Culture and Arts, the Lithuanian God of the sky was Dangaus Dievas. Long ago Dangaus Dievas gave Perkūnas his powers of thunder and lightning and afterwards Dangaus Dievas fades into the background and becomes an inactive deity.  Perkūnas is pictured as a middle-aged man.  He has a large axe and arrows.  Perkūnas rides on a two-wheeled chariot pulled by a team of goats, similar to the Norwegian God Thor. Very nice, nicely done, very good!  Well done! --- In lesson 0046 we learned, galima and negalima, one can or one cannot.  Another word that can be extremely useful is the word for, of course! Žinoma! prašom pakartoti please repeat… of course!                             žinoma! of course!                             žinoma! of course not!                        žinoma ne! of course not!                       žinoma ne! can I pet your dog? of course!                             žinoma! can I be honest with you? of course!                              žinoma! can I have another hug, please? of course!                             žinoma! do you get mail delivery on Sunday? of course not!                       žinoma ne! can I borrow your car? of course not!                       žinoma ne! can I keep an elephant in my house? žinoma ne! of course not! can I?                                   galima? of course!                             žinoma! can I?                                   galima? of course not!                        žinoma ne! really?                                   tikrai? really!                                    tikrai! Sveikinu!  Congratulations for making it through another episode!  Sveikinu! Alright, that's it for today, we'd like to thank you very much for listening, we appreciate it. To leave us comments call our voicemail number that's in the title of every show or call our Skype voicemail at Lithuanianoutloud – that's one word, and leave us a message there. If you'd like to see the Lithuanian spelling of any word in this series just go to WWW dot Lithuanian dot L I B S Y N dot com. If you'd like to get these lessons every time a new one is available just go to iTunes and do a search for Lithuanian Out Loud and click subscribe.  It's completely free.  But, if you don't want to subscribe on iTunes, just send us an email asking us to alert you every time a new episode hits the internet.  And feel free to make copies of our lessons, put them on cds and pass them out to your friends. Thanks to CCMixter.org, Ditto Ditto and Vieux Farka Toure for the podcast music. Thanks for tuning in, tell your friends about us, we'll see you on the next episode of Lithuanian Out Loud. I'm Jack and I've never met a Lithuanian I didn't like.  Viso gero!  Sudie! http://www.Lithuanian.Libsyn.com Skype voicemail:  Lithuanianoutloud email Raminta and Jack at: [email protected] Thanks to:  CCMixter.org, ditto ditto, and Vieux Farka Touré for allowing us to use the music for this podcast. http://www.vieuxfarkatoure.com/ http://www.ccmixter.org/ LITHUANIAN MYTHOLOGY GINTARAS BERESNEVIČIUS Lithuanian Institute of Culture and Arts http://www.crvp.org/book/Series04/IVA-17/chapter_iv.htm