2006-10-19 21:41:34 · 12 answers · asked by llaura1115 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Most Lithuanians are Roman Catholic. One of the most impressive religious sites in Lithuania is the Hill of Crosses in the town of Siauliai. And Lithuanians have great folk music and folk customs and prepare the best stuffed cabbage rolls (koldunai) that my friends and I eat every year at the St. Casimir's festival in Silverlake, Los Angeles, California.
2006-10-19 22:17:45 · answer #1 · answered by crowbird_52 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lithuania is one of the three Baltic countries. It was absorbed into the Soviet Union by Stalin, in spite of having nothing in common with Russia. After the perestroyka, it became independent again and is striving to progress after the damage produced by the state economy
2006-10-20 06:49:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that Lithuania had one of the best Eurovision song contest entries I've ever seen. If you saw this years competition you'll know what I mean. LT United performing the very tongue-in-cheek "We are the winners", now that is what Eurovision is all about (well that and Terry Wogan). I also know what the national flag looks like (green, yellow and red horizontal strips) and that the code they have on their cars is LT; very boring and that just about wraps up my Lithuanian knowledge vault.
2006-10-21 22:38:34 · answer #3 · answered by onceuponatimeinhull 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately not that much, although I've been in the neighbourhood (Estonia). I know that it's one of the Baltic States and that Vilnius is its capital. Isn't your president a woman called something like Viberga? And I believe the language is related to Polish, but I'm not sure of that either.
This is really embarrassing, realizing how little I know, considering I'm European as well...
2006-10-20 07:56:45 · answer #4 · answered by Judith 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that it is an agglutinative language, akin to Finish, Magyar, Turkish, Mongolian, Japanese and Korean among others.
You can conjugate adjectives, and there are forms of verbs that indicate conditional, desire, misfortune, and a host of other states.
2006-10-20 15:32:43 · answer #5 · answered by john s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That if you give money to an elderly woman who is begging outside a pizza place in Kaunas and she actually gets down on the ground and starts kissing your shoes (i'm not kidding) while saying 'Aciu, aciu' (thank you), you need to say 'Prasau' (please/you're welcome) to make her stop. It very much helps if you can remember this off the top of your head, and do not need to search through your phrase book for it while someone is kissing your shoes.
2006-10-20 14:15:25 · answer #6 · answered by Meggy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a country bordering Russia, near Estonia & Latvia
guess it you type it into a search engine.... you'll find loads of stuff
2006-10-19 21:49:45 · answer #7 · answered by Breeze 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That it's one of the tiny Baltic states, and that until the collapse of the Soviet Union it was part of it.
2006-10-19 21:52:06 · answer #8 · answered by backinbowl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is a country...=P
2006-10-19 21:43:46 · answer #9 · answered by c00kies 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Little...
2006-10-22 04:38:28 · answer #10 · answered by manforallseasons 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋