Lithuanian text translated into 10 languages

**Skomand** · 10-20-2013, 02:04 AM

**Skomand** · 11-01-2013, 02:39 AM

Would a native speaker read and record the Lithuanian text and make it available?

**Hercus Monte** · 11-01-2013, 05:00 PM

I don't understand the purpose of this thread. It's not like it's the first time a lithuanian article was translated to english or german, etc.

and why would we record ourselves reading it? that's really weird.

**Skomand** · 11-01-2013, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by Hercus Monte

I don't understand the purpose of this thread. It's not like it's the first time a lithuanian article was translated to english or german, etc.

and why would we record ourselves reading it? that's really weird.

Read the end of the sentence "and make it available."
Antoine Meillet once said "If you want to hear Indo-European spoken, you must go to Lithuania."
When the Swiss Alfred Senn crossed the Lithuanian border after WWI and listened to Lithuanian voices for the first time he was in a state of exciitedness.
Hercus Monte, you are a living fossil through your language and that's why people might be interested in listening to it.

**Hercus Monte** · 11-01-2013, 06:22 PM

Originally Posted by Skomand

Read the end of the sentence "and make it available."
Antoine Meillet once said "If you want to hear Indo-European spoken, you must go to Lithuania."
When the Swiss Alfred Senn crossed the Lithuanian border after WWI and listened to Lithuanian voices for the first time he was in a state of exciitedness.
Hercus Monte, you are a living fossil through your language and that's why people might be interested in listening to it.

Do you want me to put a funky samogitian accent on as well?
we're not a dying species. if they want to hear Lithuanian the can just go on youtube.

there's a website where you can hear lithuanian recordings with all the dialects. I'll try to find it.

**Rudel** · 11-01-2013, 06:29 PM

Well, at least the article isn't uninteresting. For some reason all the little countries in Europe seem pretty comfortable with "opening to the world" and disappearing as a people.

**Hercus Monte** · 11-01-2013, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by Rudel

Well, at least the article isn't uninteresting. For some reason all the little countries in Europe seem pretty comfortable with "opening to the world" and disappearing as a people.

for every 1000 men we have over 1200 women, I'm afraid we need to open up. as a matter of fact we are going to open up because those ladies aren't going to stay single no matter what you tell them. I'm personally not really bothered by ''opening to the world''.

**Skomand** · 11-01-2013, 06:38 PM

No, it was just this one, since there are so many translations into other languages.

I do however have a larger project of my own: recording texts from Prussian-Lithuanian schoolbooks, so that this heritage can come to life a bit.
If you want to do that, I'll put you on my list as a male Lithuanian voice with a slight Samogitian accent. You are partly Sisioniskis or Buras, after all.

**Hercus Monte** · 11-01-2013, 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by Skomand

If you want to do that, I'll put you on my list as a male Lithuanian voice with a slight Samogitian accent. You are partly Sisioniskis or Buras, after all.

Sisioniskis, and I speak standard lithuanian, no slight samogitian or anything.
I can imitate dialects, but it's debatable if I'm any good at it.

Originally Posted by kamane

I'm not sure what populations of the world Rudel had in mind, but Lithuanians generally aren't particularly fascinated by the "open world" they see in multicultural West.

he's speaking of 'evil' Africans, which is rare for us.

when we marry foreigners it's usually Russians, Germans, Brits, Scandinavians or Irish people, mixed race Lithuanians are quite rare.

I don't expect that 200 surplus to stay single forever, so I would imagine they're going to get hitched to some guys from other EU states or North America.

Originally Posted by kamane

Anyway, our real problem is emigration not immigration. Immigration would be a result of emigration.

that's an entirely different topic on it's own. It is an issue of internal policy, not how much we 'love the world'.

**Hercus Monte** · 11-01-2013, 07:03 PM

Originally Posted by kamane

People whose partners are from economically well off countries usually stay in those well off countries. They find foreign partners in emigration usually to begin with.

but that's not necessarily true, the Czech republic has no immigration problems, in spite of not being well-off. as I said, it's a matter of internal policy not the economic situation.