Why does everyone think that Lithuanian sounds like Russian?

[JeanBaMac]

Lithuanian sounds like an "hybrid" language, somewhat Slavic, Finnish, Romance or Greek...
It's a nice sounding language IMHO.

[RussiaPrussia]

I don't think we sound Russian. then again, I'm in no position to judge.

here's a lecture in Lithuanian. what do other Europeans think?

language doesnt sound russian but here voice kinda

[Hercus Monte]

language doesnt sound russian but here voice kinda

Her voice sounds russian? what does that mean?

here's the exact same video.

one of them is in lithuanian - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuOdfyPF9pw

another in russian - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chg_TwUjzG4

[Açores]

My ex girlfriend is from Alytus, Lituania and now I have a Latvian girlfriend. To my amateur uneducated observation, and I am a fan of the Baltic countries, where I have been visiting a few times in my life, Lituanian is closest related to Latvian Lettonia and I have notiçed some words are similar. I also have noticed that Lituanian has some words that are similar to Russian (example - steklos vs. steklo = glass, begit vs. bezhat', iescoti vs. iskat', jveries vs. zver', ranca vs. ruka, galava vs. golova and so on) and Lituania language is probably older than Russian. Yet as much as I understood so far, to tell a Lithuanian that he or she is Russian has similar consequences as to tell a Greek that he is a Turk.

I have observed Baltic and Lituanian people talking, listened to Lituanian songs and watched news and videos over several years now and so far Lituanian to me sounds a bit like the following languages: Chinese (sometimes), Tchetchen, Tchec, Croatian, Espanish, French, German, Greco, Kurd, Latin, Portugues, Serbian, Turco-arabic, Ukrainian. Every time different. While it only sounds a bit alike to my untrained ears, but I think it is quite a beautiful language and I give it 7 out of 10 for the sound of it. It is definitely a unique language in the Indo-European language group and seemingly has similarities not only to Slavic, but also to Latin and Germanic languages, yet most of it is just unlike any other, apart from Latvian, an original language,and seems very archaic in form. I have now studied linguistics a little bit and I think that Lituania language is a transitional Centum-Satem language. This is my rather amateur observaçion and nothing more. I apologise if I offended anyone.

[Loxie]

I listened to news in Albanian language, and was amazed how much it reminded me of Lithuanian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AQw1aUDtZg

Albanian and Lithuanian are the most archaic IE languages, they are most similar to the proto indo-european language. It's not surprising there is some similarity in how they sound.

[Petros Houhoulis]

I listened to news in Albanian language, and was amazed how much it reminded me of Lithuanian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AQw1aUDtZg

Albanian and Lithuanian are the most archaic IE languages, they are most similar to the proto indo-european language. It's not surprising there is some similarity in how they sound.

Lithuanian is actually somewhat related to Greek, not Albanian:



Lithuanian is the closest living relative of Ancient Thracian.