Apparently the thumbnail I made for this video has offended a few people? I guess that’s one more thing to add to the list! To me it was a humorous exaggeration and not meant to have any seriousness… but it seems like a couple people are taking it literally. What do you think? Is the thumbnail offensive?
@@t.lokokokosavaip8591 dude by all means cepelinai is already cooked enough, and when they’re fried it is basically the fourth time it has been cooked.
@@Mendogology it already has been baked once and boiled twice, and when you fry it in a pan, well technically it has been cooked for the fourth time. If to be more specific: 1 Boil the meat (not a necessary step, but you should), 2 bake the meat with all the stuff you added (like caramelised onions, water and oil), 3 then you have to boil the shaped cepelinai.
I made a joke about how much my friend likes Russia (she grew up under the Soviet Union). She was so angry she didn't speak to me the rest of the day. I also had to do a lot of apologizing the next.
@@TankaZYT The Russian empire occupation lasted from 1795-1918. Russia imposed russification that caused the lithuanian language to be repressed. After WW1 Lithuania was independent until the Soviet Union invaded in 1940. The Soviet Union occupied Lithuania until 1991. So yes I do understand. I have been to the KBG museum in Vilnius and learned about book smugglers in Kaunas. I also served on the Korean DMZ and the East German border. I know full well what the Soviet Union represented. It was a joke but in very poor taste.
Don’t necessarily 100% agree on food. I don’t think any of Lithuanians would be really upset that you are not eating a lot or not finishing. However, some of them might comment or ask why nobody is eating or is it not good. But that usually means nothing. I don’t think any of us would be really upset if you haven’t finished your portion, but if someone will force themselves to finish everything we might not realise that you’re just being polite. Unfortunately I think majority of us would be offended if you came full or just eaten elsewhere as we would always care to make something special for our guests.
This is a great video. I have learned much about Lithuanian culture in the last 20 years, particularly the last 7 or 8 when we have gone to visit family and friends, almost every year. Lithuanians are very warm, welcoming, family oriented people. Expect to be fed, no matter the time of day, and take your shoes off.
As a Pole I find some shared words between polish and lithuanian languages. For example: parlament, in lithuanian sejmas, in polish sejm. The grammary is totally different and I can understand only some words adopted from latin or polish into lithuanian. By the way, Lithuanian cousine is popular in poland during summer, chłodnik( cold soup) is cooked in whole Poland.
I was invited to dinner by a Lithuanian guy I’d met on Facebook and I told him in advance of my fish allergy and I didn’t drink and my host was very gracious. He picked me up from Vilnius and took me to his home. and I didn’t know about small talk so thanks for the info.
As a Lithuanian and a woman, I can't stand the thought of "it's rude not to drink". No, it is rude not to listen to the boundaries of a person and keep insisting.
There are genes in Lithuanians allowing to digest well fats, it is scientific fact. Therefore we like cepelinai so much. Heavy fatty food is good in cold climate. Other trend of Lithuanian cuisine is to use grown, farmed products together with wild hunted or foraged products, eg. dried mushrooms. We remain foragers, our laws allows herbs, berries and mushrooms collection in all private or state owned forests except very few nature reservations.
I am pure blood Lithuanian and I don't like cepelinai. I do not hate it, but I would never think that "hmm... šiandien noriu cepakų". Regarding drinkink, I hate if I am pushed to drink and I think that is changing. Some older folks still tries to force you to have a shot, but this thing is dieing.
on this one topic about the past occupations Lithuanians had to endure, I was lucky by coincidence. Before visiting Lithuania I had already made a difference in general when looking at parts of the world and trying to understand - making a difference between politics and nations on one side and cultures on the other side. - (There are mostly a lot of matches between the two - like countries as nations often derive from a cultural history, but as we know a top bad spark for bad conflict in every part of the world is each time when it does not match, like nations and politics go over the head of the cultures they are governing.) - Before visiting Lithuania I had already looked at cultures for a long time as a result of such as local conditions. So people around the Baltic Sea have been in contact and exchange with each other for thousands of years because wandering the coast and getting across with a boat has always been easy in comparison to long distance travels across wild land, woods, and mountains. What today is russia was wild and inaccessible woodland for most of the time when people around the baltic sea were already in constant exchange with each other for millennia. (It's nordic travellers who built the first and biggest rest-stops along rivers in wild woodland south of the baltics that later would have slavic people settle there, Moscva/Moskow was a 'refuel' travel and trade stop of vikings and baltic people long before things formed that then became russia). Long story short: When I visited Lithuania the first time uneducated/ unprepared, Vilnius in particular, I felt like this could be Malmo (opposite in Sweden) or Oulu or Turku ( Finland) - and the language for a first-time blank head didn't sound slavic to me at all, rather like Finlands fin-ish.
I would say that ‘post soviet’ resembles to colonial or second-rate. Like all to know about us is that we were a colony of Russia once. Guess ‘Eastern Europe’ works same way. Like people from big countries don’t bother to get in to that small entities, simply ‘once belonged to Russia, not much more to know about them.
@@tas_velnias😂 big guys are sensitive, they obey etiquette towards each other. Who cares about those so called cultures, simply former yours or former ours, quick and simple.
Lithuanians have persevered and fought through the ages beginning with the northern crusades in the 13th century to the 20th century when they were occupied by the Russians and then the Germans and then the Russians again. Thankfully you are a sovereign nation now and able to speak your own language and practice your own customs and culture. I hope it remains so for a long time.
@@fidenemini111 "Paplepėti" is closer to gossiping than small talk. Small talk is a very Anglo thing. Most Lithuanians, regardless of age, don't find talking about the weather intellectually stimulating.
I'm a Franco-Estonian. In my part of France, we kiss 3 times when we greet friends. As for linguistics, my understanding is that Lithuanian (and Latvian) are ancient languages that belong to the Baltic language group. Slavic languages are more recently derived from a proto-Baltic root some 1600-2000 years ago. As for cuisine, I love seafood. Even in Tallinn at the market, there is a wide array of fish available every day. This is not so in Lithuania, where at least half the animal protein at grocery stores is porc. Whilst I love my choucroute at Christmas, I miss boudin noir (verimakara).
Keep in mind that this does not apply to everyone. For example I dont like getting flowers. Also I dont agree that not drinking would be offensive. If you want to avoid drinking just arrive with a car so you can always tell that you will be driving later :D Rest is pretty much true.
Number one: Absolute majority of Lithuanians are Roman Catholics (minority - protestants of different denominations) since the end of 14th/beginning of 15th century - clearly not Eastern European culturally. Number two: Lithuania is at the same latitude as Denmark, British isles and Ireland - clearly Northern European. Number three: The most scientifically and impartially calculated (done by 1989, by Jean-George Affholder, a scientist at the Institut Géographique National (French National Geographic Institute)) midpoint of European Continent is near Vilnius, though all Lithuania is right in the center of it - clearly not in the Eastern part of European Continent. Number four: The term "Eastern Europe" was coined in the end of 19th century ("Everything what is to the east of Germany is Eastern Europe") and got its wider use only after WW2, after the Iron Curtain divided Europe into NATO countries and those of Warsaw Pact (countries either controlled or annexed by Soviets) - at least for Baltic States (at least since 2004) this geopolitical term is outdated and holds no water.
@@Jay-mc2dz Number one - what it has to do with EU? While we are talking here about European Continent? Number two: Eurasia is a supercontinent combined of both of European and Asian continents. Number three: You confuse Nordic Countries with Northern Europe. Number four: Check what is Central Europe in German Wiki article Mtteleuropa. Number five: Laughing while posting your ignorance speaks volumes about the person.
I am married to a Lithuanian. We have Lithuanian friends and family, here in the UK. Most of these are true and I have experienced them, but I get offended by people getting offended. Lol
@@abouthammertime Seems fair, as I get offended by people who get offended by people that are offended by people who get offended by other people getting offended
i also not fan of cepelinai and i know many Lithuanians who are not too. For me only exception is mashed potato cepelinai which i like. Talking about wast, east I think from 90s-2010 we had east Europe life style that is why it was popular to say we are eastern European ( corruption everywhere; similar clothes; similar type of mindset, ect) but now i would say we have cleaned a lot of ourselves. I would not say we are Eastern or Western or Northern, but we heavily lean to the west while trying to learn and improve and not to get back to the past.
Lietuviška pop muzika yra totalus šlamštas. Yra keletas atlikėjų vidutinio lygio. ir viskas. Vien tai, kad visokie SELai buvo perkamiausi rodo apgailėtiną lietuvių muzikinį skonį
Not Slavic/Eastern, not Nordic/Northern just Baltic as most always called. Look up at any ratings and all three Baltic countries will be somewhere near, despite Estonia can go to closer to Fins. Also that flower thing sounds wrong.
As someone born and raised in Lithuania and someone who eats Lithuanian food more often than any other cuisine, cepelinai are really overrated. They can be good if prepared well but most of the time the meat inside is undercooked and the potato dough is somewhat gritty with a layer of slime on the outside. No amount of spirgučiai and sourcream can save it
Shoe thing was always strange for me as a Lithuanian to watch in the movies, especially US made, when people went with their outside shoes directly to their bedroom. Would be interesting where this custom not to take shoes off came from. Regarding this Soviet Union stuff, Soviet propaganda worked well, to mask totalitarian state. 1. Soviet union were part of coalition who defeated Hitler, so they must be on the good side.2 They sent man to space, so they must be very advanced. Even the the channel owner called Soviet union authoritarian state in this clip :)
This is just very different in different parts of the world and that's it. In the US and for example Italy you would always walk with shoes inside, in Japan you would be very, very rude to keep your shoes on inside (much more rude than in LT).
This may not be about offending Lithuanian people but I learnt that you have to dismount your bicycle when crossing pedestrian crossings here. It's very strange for me to do it!
I think being offended about most of the things mentioned in your video is a bit much. Maybe it's because I've been living abroad too much myself where I got used to questions such as "do people have running water in their houses in Lithuania?" etc. It was annoying at the start, but ultimately the responsibility falls onto our shoulders to correct those people who are simply unfamiliar with our country and generally disregard others who are being rude deliberately. With such approach taken, it is more likely we'd nudge someone towards them discovering our way of life more organically, where people can assess individually the things they do and don't like while also showcasing solid levels of maturity on our end as opposed to just getting angry and throwing a tantrum. Also, I respect your preference towards fried cepelinai. I like them fresh but fried are also super good. Same for kugelis by the way. 😋
Great content - very accurate. Forgot to mention that Lithuanians do not like to shake hands through the door step when greeting - Lithuanian will always take a step through the door or let you in before handshake. Also, Lithuania is kinda geographical center of the Europe - I think we should be considered as Central Europe country, not Northern or definitely not Eastern ;)
@@martynaspiliutis ha ha you’re funny Marty! You wrote that Lithuania is at the geographic center of Europe. Haha 😂. You should learn how to read a map dude! Let me help you understand what you see when look at a map. Your country is located on a latitude the same as northern Denmark and southern Sweden. You Have heard of Scandinavia right? Vilnius lies at 54.689 degrees north and the northernmost part of Lithuania is at 55 degrees north. The arctic circle ⭕️ begins at 66 degrees north. You’re such a funny guy that I’m still laughing at you.
@@martynaspiliutis so I did that and maybe you should also, but paying attention to detail. It seems there are numerous claims in numerous countries with numerous monuments. Each claim relies on a subjective interpretation of where the borders of Europe are. Your claim was made in 1989 by a Frenchman possibly computing the data alone. He may well be correct, but until a consensus of where the borders of Europe are and a reliable and verifiable measurement is made, I’m not buying it Marty. And claiming the Baltic region is not nordic is just plain nonsense.
@pauljackson4075 so you are saying that science peoole are stupid and only you are the smart one? I am not wasting my time dealing with flat earther anymore.
The best way to not upset is not calling our accents Russian(because the Lithuanian one is even more harsh and sharp and some other obvious historical reasons why).
If Lithuanian language would sound similar to Russian: Number one: Russians did not struggle battling their own accent when speaking Lithuanian. Number two: Lithuanian and Russian English accents would be identical.
I completely agree with you about the eastern/northern point. Saying that we're northern europeans because of our culture doesn't make much sense to me
Think again. What kind off person thinks that Lithuanian culture is close to Chechenya :). So you want to say Lithuanians look more like Romanians, totorians, moscovians than Finns or Swedes. Lithuanians even are totally different to Polish. Lithuanian is Northern 100%
Obviously you cant just generalize everything and everyone, but there are quite a few truthful statements in the video. No touching is 100% correct, unless you are a hot women that I am interested in, sorry I dont like to be touched lol. Drinking/eating in someones house is nuanced. We dont expect you to eat everything we potential give you(the guest) But its in the tradition to make sure you are full and enjoying the food. The whole stuff with russians is just taboo. The less you talk about that the better for everyone. We dont like them thats about that. Saying that the food is bad depends on the people and where you are eating. If you are eating out, and the food quality is bad, you can say everything you want about it, but if its just a dish you might not like, well tough luck, dont go acting like foreign cuisines should automatic cater to your tongue. Small talk? Depends on the person, time, and mood. Do we want to know everything that happened? no not really, unless you are really close to me. Otherwise if we ask "how is life" or "how is it going on", you dont just start giving a full report of your life. Few general words, and if we want to talk more we will just ask more to the theme of conversation.
Well geographically Lithuania is the most central Europe as it's literally in the center of Europe.... So we are either central Europe geographically or northern Europe politically.
If you look closer, Lithuania is Northern Europe by cultural and by geographical situation. It's not central and it's not eastern. Eastern is Russia, Belarus, Ukraine. Central is Poland, Chezk, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania or even Ukraine. And Lithuania, Latvia is closer to North, by everything. By culture, by geography, by skin and hair and so on. So wake up
I do not get offended by Easter European term, as long as it not in an offensive way. But, I do not like when people think that there are no differences between each of Eastern European countries, or when they think Russia and Lithuania are the same thing. And about USSR heritage, I do not get offended if someone shows interest in it. Is part of our history and personally, I do not want to erase any of our history.
Biggest insult is to go to Vilnius center and notice that 90% people talking in russian language. I never emigrated from my lovely Vilnius, but hearing russian language every day and everywhere i feel like this is not Lithuania anymore.
I respectfully request an explanation that explains why Lithuania's border guards mandate all bus travelers take everything out of all their luggage for inspection (including underwear) on a long table when crossing the land border. Belarus border guards use state-of-the-art x-ray machines with a conveyer belt like all airports to inspect luggage. I view this Lithuanian procedure as harassment that causes delays up to 4 hours at the border. Unfortunately, the EU has closed their air space for international travel from Belarus.
Sorry Lena, but the Lithuanian language does not, as you said, come from Sanskrit. The Lithuanian language is derived from proto-indo-European which was spoken by people from the Eurasian steppe north and east of the Black Sea. These were a pastoral people who through the use of ox drawn wagons spread their language west through Europe, south through the Caucuses, and east to northern India around 3600 bce. Greek is also an indo-European language.Due to the geographical isolation of Lithuania, your language has remained the most similar to what those people spoke. Probably more similar than Sanskrit. The Latvian language is also very similar to proto-indo-European. If you want to educate we Americans about your country you should probably know more about it yourself. And to the owner of this channel: I am one of those who is offended by your thumbnail! I wonder if you know who those boxers are?
Lina, you are stunning, such a beautiful woman and the national costume looks so good on you! But please, as a representer of Lithuanian culture and national costume, keep that top shirt button closed and show off that beautiful, hemstitched collar :). Also, traditional hair styles under a crown look so much better than loose flowing hair, which was never historically worn. I suggest putting your hair in plaits and pinning it into a low bun in the back. Thanks for the cool video and best of luck!
I have always called LT "Eastern Europe" ad have only, ever meant it in a geographical way (not some pejorative term for Lithuania) - sounds like the "Northern Europe" thing is straight from marketing! :) - But I guess I kinda understand their thinking, they ARE in Northern Europe (also Eastern) and, well, at least here in the West (USA) , there is this "stigma"(?) attached to Eastern Europe - not exactly a bad thing, but not super positive, so, I guess I get it, but, to me, it's still in the East of Europe
So Lithuania geographicly is in the center of Europe. Just call baltic states. Some country's have a joke tht is eastern Europe and it is country that is in the east of our perspective
Pff... As a Lithuanian I have to disappoint you but Lithuanian is literally from the same language family as Slavic languages are :) it's called Balto-Slavic language family 😂 moreover, there's around 5% loan words from Slavic languages and Slavic languages (esp. Belarusian and Ukrainian) have some words borrowed from Lithuanian
The whole Northern/Eastern Europe thing is stupid, feels like the people insisting on us being Northern European are just doing it for some kind of PR thing. I've never met anyone that cares, and you have to be really full of yourself to take offense to that.
Me too. My mother-in-law served it when I first met them and being a healthy eater the dish sitting in a bath of white fat was hard to take. Lots of good food though much of it comes from lands ELSEWHERE.
Speaking about the sound of Lithuanian language, yes, it DOES sound like Russian for people who can't speak any of these languages. Phonology is pretty much the same, both languages have palatalization (Belarusian has it too) which isn't present in Latvian, both languages have mobile word stress. But it doesn't mean that Lithuanian and Russian are mutually intelligible. Portuguese also sounds like Russian but is totally different. Spanish sound similar to Greek but they are very much different. That being said, you can't deny some lexical similarities between Lithuanian and Russian because both languages come from the same branch of Indoeuropean languages. The core vocabularies of both languages have many similar words: galva/golova (head), ranka/ruka (hand), nosis/nos (nose), diena/den (day), sėdėti/sidet (to sit), ežeras/ozero (lake), stalas/stol (table), vanduo/voda (water), šviesa/svet (light), žvaigždė/zvezda (star), žiema/zima (winter), žemė/zemlya (ground, Earth) and so on. And that's not somehow unexpected because both languages are related. But they are still very different if you compare their vocabularies. Speaking about being Northern or Eastern, Lithuanians are mixed. We have some Northern European traits (not Nordic!), some Central European traits and some Eastern European traits. Lithuanians claim that the geographical center of Europe is near Vilnius. So why is it surprising that we're Northern and Eastern and Central at once? But yes, saying "you're just like Russians" is VERY VERY much offensive.
If Lithuanian would sound like Russian in this case Russians would speak Lithuanian without an accent, right? I can reassure you Russians butchering Lithuanian pronunciation very badly and they accent very distinctly recognizable as Russian. It's always a subject of joke how Russians speak Lithuanian. But if you have no musical ear then ya
@@centrasseptyni8277Funnily enough, it's quite easy for a Lithuanian person to speak Russian without an accent, even as a beginner. That's because we're innately superior ;D
@@centrasseptyni8277Not right, because every who speaks a foreign language has an accent while speaking that said language. Latvian is similar to Lithuanian and Latvians have accent while speaking Lithuanian. Swedish is similar to Norwegian and Swedes/Norwegians have accent while speaking Norwegian/Swedish. German or Swedish are very much related to English and you can clearly hear an accent when a German or a Swedish speaks English. So what's your point actually?
The "Lithuanian came from Sanskrit" is a bit erroneous. Yes, Lithuanian's related to Sanskrit via Indo-European family, which is the oldest ancestor of the language family, but it diverged from that point right after, giving rise to the Indo-Iranian family which contains Sanskrit, and the Balto-Slavic family that contains Lithuanian. And yes, Balto-Slavic does contain both Lithuanian and Russian. I can see how vastly different they are, but they're more related than Lithuanian and Sanskrit are. That said, I still respect the Lithuanian sentiment to not get themselves involved with anything Russian.
Had Russians different government for the last 20 years, created better state and haven't started horrible wars our attitude would have been different. In 1991 Russian people supported us, our independence, there was about 100 000 demonstration in Moscow to support Vilnius, I still remember it. Now they can't demonstrate alone with a blank sheet any more.
When I think about the Northern Europe: I imagine something dark, cold, serious looking people, expensive, not that great food etc. When I think about the Eastern Europe: friendly and outgoing people, great food, affordable, funny traditions etc.
If you say oh lithuania likes russia because you were a part of it thats like saying the usa likes the colonial britan because you were apart of them. so don’t say it
@@Jay-mc2dzjezau sventas is kur tu cia istraukei tokia info?😂😂 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Lithuania#:~:text=Lithuania%20has%20a%20humid%20continental,64.6%20%C2%B0F)%20in%20July.
Even though we like to boast that our language is similar to Sanskrit, in fact there are many more similarities between Lithuanian and the Slavic languages than between Lithuanian and Sanskrit. In any case, nowadays we wouldn't mind that much if someone said that Lithuanian is similar to Ukranian or Czech, would we? It's only about Russian that we get irritated due to historical and political reasons. From a purely linguistic point of view, however, Lithuanian and Latvian languages do belong to the Baltic Branch, while Russian, Polish etc. - to a Slavic branch of Indo-european languages. But there are also theories that these two branches once belonged to a common Balto-slavic branch which later split into separate branches. And even though this theory is not considered to be proven, there is a definite feeling that there is much more commonality between Lithuanian and Slavic languages than, e.g wth Marathi, Punjabi, Pashto, Farsi , Swedish, Armenian or Gaelic, which are all also Indo-european languages. Also, due to the long historical contact of Lithuanian with the Slavic languages there are many loan words. Not necessarily from Russian, but also from Polish and Belarussian. The Medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuanian was to a large extent a slavic-speaking country, but that slavic language was not Russian as we understand it in a modern sense. It was much more similar to the modern Belarussian or Ukrainian.
Jus cia rimtai paraset? Ar trolis esate? Nes musu kalba tikrai neturi panasumo su slavu kalbomis. Kaip ir kiekvienoje kalboje galima rasti panasumu, bet tai nereiskia, kad jos slavu kilmes.
well... i dare say lithuanian and russian have similar... absent of rythm to them. as in: accent fluctuates, can be anywhere in word, and thusly, has no such rythm as do languages with fixed accent on first (finnish, estonian, latvian) or penultimate syllable (polish etc). so, while languages are not similar, they can sound similar, esp to person with no understanding of either. like, finnish and larvian could. also, while in separate baltic group in indoeuropean languages, baltic and slavic and greek share similar case system. maybe sanskrit as well, am not familiar.
I really don't like this trend of Lithuanians getting butthurt for being called eastern European, it's like some kind of inferiority complex because of our past, being ashamed of who we are and wanting to be called northern or western to get the feeling that we belong. Time to get rid of that. During the times of GDL or the Commonwealth, Lithuania was always like a link between the west and the east, between the catholic and orthodox parts of Europe and it's always been very multicultural and people were allowed to keep their different cultures and religions and coexist freely. However, in more recent history, mostly due to soviet occupation I guess, we were definitely eastern European culturally, and that's completely fine.
@@mikomiko762 First of all, we haven't been pagans for hundreds of years already. Second - nobody's telling you to "accept Slavic culture", I'm saying that you should accept the Baltic culture for what it is instead of trying to make it something that it isn't. Being an Eastern European does not equal being Slavic. And we have been living with and next to Slavs for thousands of years, it's only natural that our cultures are similar in many ways, yet different in other's and that's fine.
One correction, baltic and slavic languages are parts of the same language group called balto-slavic family. Difference being - baltic languages split off into their branches a bit earlier than slavic.
That is simply wrong, this was the way of thinking 50-100 years ago. Baltic and Slavic languages groups split about 3500 years ago. Baltic languages speakers arrived to Europe at about 1500 B.C. In the other side, Slavic languages speakers arrived at Europe at 500 A.C. This is very well documented by many archaeological and linguistic evidences. If you put Baltic and Slavic languages in the same group, by the same logic you can go even more back in the time and include also Germanic languages, as Germanic languages group split from Baltic and Slavic languages about 6500 years ago.
@@Mendogology i guess Robert Beekes, person who has PhD in indoeuropean languages was publishing his great grandparents manuscript in 2012 thinking it was still 1912. Same with M. Kapovic in 2017
@@Scheiseposter Antoine Meillet, Vladimir Toporov, Oswald Szemerényi, August Schleicher, Raimo Anttila, William R. Schmalstieg, Rick Derksen, Henning Andersen, Winfred P. Lehmann. There is a short list of all linguists who separate Baltic and Slavic languages groups. I guess Robert Beekes and M. Kapovic are simply wrong. Did they even took into account Baltic languages speakers arriving to Europe 2000 years earlier than first Slavic languages speakers? You know, right, that there are archaeological evidences of that?
@@Scheiseposter Also, if you want to understand about this, instead of just naming some linguists, who clearly have no idea, I recommend to check out about - Change of liquid consonants and how they are similar in Germanic, Slavic and Baltic. - Phonetical palatalization existence in Latvian, but not in Lithuanian, dismissing the myth of Baltic-Slavic having phonetical palatalization. - Similar vowel systems between German and Old Prussian. - How "ḱ" and "ǵ" consonants evolved in Baltic and Slavic languages.
the woman doesn't have a clue. Lithuanian does not come from sanskirt. There are some similarities, just like with other indo European languages, but nothing crazy. Lithuanian comes from sanskirt as much as it comes from Albanian or Portuguese. Apart from baltic languages (latvian being the only other surviving one), the closest languages are slavic. Slavic languages are close. Especially when comparing to sanskirt, which this silly woman thinks lithuanian comes from
I’m Lithunian (34 year) I almost never hear we are north europe.We are 100% east Europinians and nobody shame of that.We really not like Scandinavians😂 and nor russia but we definitely east europe and nothing to shame.About small talk its depends what age group you will take. 30 year and less like small talk.Its comes with soviet people who was afraid of communist neighbours
Ziurim ka turim. Geografija is wikipedijos: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Lithuania#:~:text=Lithuania%20has%20a%20humid%20continental,64.6%20%C2%B0F)%20in%20July.
I speak intermediate Russian and have visited Lithuania twice. Although shared vocabulary is limited, Lithuanian and Russian share linguistic features like cases, flexible word order, and complex verb forms-unfamiliar to me as a native Swedish speaker. Culturally, there are also parallels: not whistling indoors, customs around giving flowers and avoiding handshakes over thresholds. The dating culture in Lithuania also feels closer to Russia than Scandinavia.
For most part I agree. Lithuania got a lot of influence from Russia and visa versa especially in medieval times. That obvious for me too. But also is some fundamental differences. It's like someone would say Sweden and Germany are the same. And now when a lot of bad blood between Lithuania and Russia that differences especially obvious to us. We trying to keep distance as far as we can from Russia in all aspects. And since Soviet Russian occupation years distance only widening with every new generation. In another hand globalization slowly makes all world somewhat similar
Not entirely true regarding touching. I think it is more personal preferrence than cultural thing. I am lithuanian and I am pretty touchy person, I love to touch people's arms from time to time while talking to them.
Just curious - where have you seen such classification? Just checked that the Baltic States are part of the UN regional Group of Eastern European States (EEG).
Who cares. We were not Hanza. We are not protestants. Poland was and will be forever oir closest and logical ally. We are not northern Europe bu any means. You have no clue what swedish invation did to us. Historicallly, culturally, and believe systems wise we are central europe. We are aint Hanza, we are aint protestants, we were never northerners historically. Poles were (and I hope will) out best allies and neighbours. I dont remember any historical time (mac 1 year diff) when Lithuania survived after Poland failed. Never ever. Ever. We are bound forever! Greetings to the Poland!
Apparently the thumbnail I made for this video has offended a few people? I guess that’s one more thing to add to the list!
To me it was a humorous exaggeration and not meant to have any seriousness… but it seems like a couple people are taking it literally.
What do you think? Is the thumbnail offensive?
People will get offended by anything now days and the more attention you pay to such snowflakes the more they'll whine. Your thumbnail is fine man. 👍
Soon, breathing will offend someone. 😄
Ofc it's fine.
Naaah - nothing offensive with the thumbnail . On the opposite - kinda nice :) Don't worry - haters always hate :)
There are always some people who get offended by everything.
Im recently back from my 8th visit to Lithuania....Fantastic country and people! Respect to Lithuania! 🇮🇪👍🍻🇱🇹
You saved yourself with fried cepelinai
*cooked
@@t.lokokokosavaip8591 dude by all means cepelinai is already cooked enough, and when they’re fried it is basically the fourth time it has been cooked.
@@matask.7507 why fourth time and not second?
@@Mendogology it already has been baked once and boiled twice, and when you fry it in a pan, well technically it has been cooked for the fourth time.
If to be more specific:
1 Boil the meat (not a necessary step, but you should),
2 bake the meat with all the stuff you added (like caramelised onions, water and oil),
3 then you have to boil the shaped cepelinai.
@@matask.7507wtf man??? 🤣🤣 First time I hear this
I made a joke about how much my friend likes Russia (she grew up under the Soviet Union). She was so angry she didn't speak to me the rest of the day. I also had to do a lot of apologizing the next.
please say that now u know why?
I understand you meant it as a joke, but do you really understand the actual situation between Lithuania and Russia?
yeah thats a very weird joke to make, thats along the lines of joking to a jew that he likes nazi germany
@@TankaZYT The Russian empire occupation lasted from 1795-1918. Russia imposed russification that caused the lithuanian language to be repressed. After WW1 Lithuania was independent until the Soviet Union invaded in 1940. The Soviet Union occupied Lithuania until 1991. So yes I do understand. I have been to the KBG museum in Vilnius and learned about book smugglers in Kaunas. I also served on the Korean DMZ and the East German border. I know full well what the Soviet Union represented. It was a joke but in very poor taste.
How would you feel if somebody told that you like Hitler and Nazzi Germany very much? No offense, just trying to relay the feeling...
Don’t necessarily 100% agree on food. I don’t think any of Lithuanians would be really upset that you are not eating a lot or not finishing. However, some of them might comment or ask why nobody is eating or is it not good. But that usually means nothing. I don’t think any of us would be really upset if you haven’t finished your portion, but if someone will force themselves to finish everything we might not realise that you’re just being polite. Unfortunately I think majority of us would be offended if you came full or just eaten elsewhere as we would always care to make something special for our guests.
Refusing to drink alcohol is no longer ofensive. By big part you not even need to say "i drive" or somthing
I love Lithuanian food way more than French food.
This is a great video. I have learned much about Lithuanian culture in the last 20 years, particularly the last 7 or 8 when we have gone to visit family and friends, almost every year. Lithuanians are very warm, welcoming, family oriented people. Expect to be fed, no matter the time of day, and take your shoes off.
As a Pole I find some shared words between polish and lithuanian languages. For example: parlament, in lithuanian sejmas, in polish sejm. The grammary is totally different and I can understand only some words adopted from latin or polish into lithuanian. By the way, Lithuanian cousine is popular in poland during summer, chłodnik( cold soup) is cooked in whole Poland.
Great video! I enjoy all of them!
I was invited to dinner by a Lithuanian guy I’d met on Facebook and I told him in advance of my fish allergy and I didn’t drink and my host was very gracious. He picked me up from Vilnius and took me to his home. and I didn’t know about small talk so thanks for the info.
4:30 i feel the correct way to say to what region Lithuania belongs is to just say we are a country from Baltic region.
As a Lithuanian and a woman, I can't stand the thought of "it's rude not to drink". No, it is rude not to listen to the boundaries of a person and keep insisting.
There are genes in Lithuanians allowing to digest well fats, it is scientific fact. Therefore we like cepelinai so much. Heavy fatty food is good in cold climate. Other trend of Lithuanian cuisine is to use grown, farmed products together with wild hunted or foraged products, eg. dried mushrooms. We remain foragers, our laws allows herbs, berries and mushrooms collection in all private or state owned forests except very few nature reservations.
I am pure blood Lithuanian and I don't like cepelinai. I do not hate it, but I would never think that "hmm... šiandien noriu cepakų".
Regarding drinkink, I hate if I am pushed to drink and I think that is changing. Some older folks still tries to force you to have a shot, but this thing is dieing.
Same. I feel very misunderstood if I share this
on this one topic about the past occupations Lithuanians had to endure, I was lucky by coincidence. Before visiting Lithuania I had already made a difference in general when looking at parts of the world and trying to understand - making a difference between politics and nations on one side and cultures on the other side. - (There are mostly a lot of matches between the two - like countries as nations often derive from a cultural history, but as we know a top bad spark for bad conflict in every part of the world is each time when it does not match, like nations and politics go over the head of the cultures they are governing.) - Before visiting Lithuania I had already looked at cultures for a long time as a result of such as local conditions. So people around the Baltic Sea have been in contact and exchange with each other for thousands of years because wandering the coast and getting across with a boat has always been easy in comparison to long distance travels across wild land, woods, and mountains. What today is russia was wild and inaccessible woodland for most of the time when people around the baltic sea were already in constant exchange with each other for millennia. (It's nordic travellers who built the first and biggest rest-stops along rivers in wild woodland south of the baltics that later would have slavic people settle there, Moscva/Moskow was a 'refuel' travel and trade stop of vikings and baltic people long before things formed that then became russia). Long story short: When I visited Lithuania the first time uneducated/ unprepared, Vilnius in particular, I felt like this could be Malmo (opposite in Sweden) or Oulu or Turku ( Finland) - and the language for a first-time blank head didn't sound slavic to me at all, rather like Finlands fin-ish.
As a Lithuanian I can confirm- the biggest insult for me ever, is to be called ruZZian.
You're just jealous of Russian power and enjoy living on eu money.
You and Lina pretty much nailed it..
I would say that ‘post soviet’ resembles to colonial or second-rate. Like all to know about us is that we were a colony of Russia once. Guess ‘Eastern Europe’ works same way. Like people from big countries don’t bother to get in to that small entities, simply ‘once belonged to Russia, not much more to know about them.
None is referring to Germany as “former nazi” or to the US as “former native american” or whatever. Same rule applies here
@@tas_velnias😂 big guys are sensitive, they obey etiquette towards each other. Who cares about those so called cultures, simply former yours or former ours, quick and simple.
Lithuanians have persevered and fought through the ages beginning with the northern crusades in the 13th century to the 20th century when they were occupied by the Russians and then the Germans and then the Russians again. Thankfully you are a sovereign nation now and able to speak your own language and practice your own customs and culture. I hope it remains so for a long time.
I have found that most Gen Z Lithuanians are exception to the rule of small talk, they seem far more receptive to it.
We even have a special word for it - "paplepėti".
@@fidenemini111 I love that word. Thank you friend, I’m gonna add that to my Lietuviškai word bank. Ačiū labai 🙏🏽
@@fidenemini111 but it's not unique to GenZ only. Paplepėti is used among all age groups.
@@fidenemini111 "Paplepėti" is closer to gossiping than small talk. Small talk is a very Anglo thing. Most Lithuanians, regardless of age, don't find talking about the weather intellectually stimulating.
@@Fankas2000Gossiping- Pletkai
I'm a Franco-Estonian. In my part of France, we kiss 3 times when we greet friends.
As for linguistics, my understanding is that Lithuanian (and Latvian) are ancient languages that belong to the Baltic language group. Slavic languages are more recently derived from a proto-Baltic root some 1600-2000 years ago.
As for cuisine, I love seafood. Even in Tallinn at the market, there is a wide array of fish available every day. This is not so in Lithuania, where at least half the animal protein at grocery stores is porc. Whilst I love my choucroute at Christmas, I miss boudin noir (verimakara).
Keep in mind that this does not apply to everyone. For example I dont like getting flowers. Also I dont agree that not drinking would be offensive. If you want to avoid drinking just arrive with a car so you can always tell that you will be driving later :D Rest is pretty much true.
Number one: Absolute majority of Lithuanians are Roman Catholics (minority - protestants of different denominations) since the end of 14th/beginning of 15th century - clearly not Eastern European culturally.
Number two: Lithuania is at the same latitude as Denmark, British isles and Ireland - clearly Northern European.
Number three: The most scientifically and impartially calculated (done by 1989, by Jean-George Affholder, a scientist at the Institut Géographique National (French National Geographic Institute)) midpoint of European Continent is near Vilnius, though all Lithuania is right in the center of it - clearly not in the Eastern part of European Continent.
Number four: The term "Eastern Europe" was coined in the end of 19th century ("Everything what is to the east of Germany is Eastern Europe") and got its wider use only after WW2, after the Iron Curtain divided Europe into NATO countries and those of Warsaw Pact (countries either controlled or annexed by Soviets) - at least for Baltic States (at least since 2004) this geopolitical term is outdated and holds no water.
Absolute majority of Lithuanians are Roman Catholics only on paper. Average Lithuanian visits the church only on weddings and funerals.
@Jay-mc2dz Just look at the map how much Estonia is more in the east compared to Lithuania. Like a half country. Really hard to understand your logic
O kas nustatė tikslią ribą tarp Europos ir Azijos?
@@Jay-mc2dz Number one - what it has to do with EU? While we are talking here about European Continent?
Number two: Eurasia is a supercontinent combined of both of European and Asian continents.
Number three: You confuse Nordic Countries with Northern Europe.
Number four: Check what is Central Europe in German Wiki article Mtteleuropa.
Number five: Laughing while posting your ignorance speaks volumes about the person.
@@druginys Bendru pasaulio geografų sutarimu - smulkiau Google: The Borders of European Continent.
I am married to a Lithuanian. We have Lithuanian friends and family, here in the UK. Most of these are true and I have experienced them, but I get offended by people getting offended. Lol
I get offended by people who get offended by other people getting offended.
@@Mendogology I get offended by people that are offended by people who get offended by other people getting offended .
@@abouthammertime Seems fair, as I get offended by people who get offended by people that are offended by people who get offended by other people getting offended
i also not fan of cepelinai and i know many Lithuanians who are not too. For me only exception is mashed potato cepelinai which i like. Talking about wast, east I think from 90s-2010 we had east Europe life style that is why it was popular to say we are eastern European ( corruption everywhere; similar clothes; similar type of mindset, ect) but now i would say we have cleaned a lot of ourselves. I would not say we are Eastern or Western or Northern, but we heavily lean to the west while trying to learn and improve and not to get back to the past.
mashed potato cepelinai 🤮🤮🤮 you're being sent straight to gulag.
I know Lithuanian pop music deserves a lot more respect and attention than it's getting. I think it's awesome even on this side of the Atlantic.
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Lietuviška pop muzika yra totalus šlamštas. Yra keletas atlikėjų vidutinio lygio. ir viskas. Vien tai, kad visokie SELai buvo perkamiausi rodo apgailėtiną lietuvių muzikinį skonį
Šiurpuliukai is kinda cool :) (V ilius Popendikis) ... and Mūsų kaime by Bernužėliai is kinda fyre :) I give them an 8/10 :)
It does not. At least the majority doesn't. And I say this as a Lithuanian.
no, pop music is horrible, there is barely any good music now, i find good rock music from 1960-1970 (in Lithuanian)
I can confirm, all of these points annoy my Lithuanian wife 😂😂😂😂 and I'm usually the person doing all these no no's
Not Slavic/Eastern, not Nordic/Northern just Baltic as most always called. Look up at any ratings and all three Baltic countries will be somewhere near, despite Estonia can go to closer to Fins.
Also that flower thing sounds wrong.
Fried cepelinai are the best
As someone born and raised in Lithuania and someone who eats Lithuanian food more often than any other cuisine, cepelinai are really overrated. They can be good if prepared well but most of the time the meat inside is undercooked and the potato dough is somewhat gritty with a layer of slime on the outside. No amount of spirgučiai and sourcream can save it
Well yeah, pretty much any type of food will taste bad if it's prepared incorrectly.
Nuobody never ate cepelinai every day. Its a lot of work to make them. IT was always just for special occasions
Shoe thing was always strange for me as a Lithuanian to watch in the movies, especially US made, when people went with their outside shoes directly to their bedroom. Would be interesting where this custom not to take shoes off came from. Regarding this Soviet Union stuff, Soviet propaganda worked well, to mask totalitarian state. 1. Soviet union were part of coalition who defeated Hitler, so they must be on the good side.2 They sent man to space, so they must be very advanced. Even the the channel owner called Soviet union authoritarian state in this clip :)
This is just very different in different parts of the world and that's it. In the US and for example Italy you would always walk with shoes inside, in Japan you would be very, very rude to keep your shoes on inside (much more rude than in LT).
about 5 just ask if keep shoes on or off
cause some people are chill if you wear shoes inside
This may not be about offending Lithuanian people but I learnt that you have to dismount your bicycle when crossing pedestrian crossings here. It's very strange for me to do it!
Only because it is a governmental requirement. Not a social courtesy.
I think being offended about most of the things mentioned in your video is a bit much. Maybe it's because I've been living abroad too much myself where I got used to questions such as "do people have running water in their houses in Lithuania?" etc. It was annoying at the start, but ultimately the responsibility falls onto our shoulders to correct those people who are simply unfamiliar with our country and generally disregard others who are being rude deliberately. With such approach taken, it is more likely we'd nudge someone towards them discovering our way of life more organically, where people can assess individually the things they do and don't like while also showcasing solid levels of maturity on our end as opposed to just getting angry and throwing a tantrum.
Also, I respect your preference towards fried cepelinai. I like them fresh but fried are also super good. Same for kugelis by the way. 😋
Are you an American? This is why "most Europeans look down" on American tourist.
@@Swedishpolymath yeah, Swedish tourists, especially aholes like you, are looked down upon often.
Great content - very accurate. Forgot to mention that Lithuanians do not like to shake hands through the door step when greeting - Lithuanian will always take a step through the door or let you in before handshake. Also, Lithuania is kinda geographical center of the Europe - I think we should be considered as Central Europe country, not Northern or definitely not Eastern ;)
@@martynaspiliutis ha ha you’re funny Marty! You wrote that Lithuania is at the geographic center of Europe. Haha 😂. You should learn how to read a map dude! Let me help you understand what you see when look at a map. Your country is located on a latitude the same as northern Denmark and southern Sweden. You Have heard of Scandinavia right? Vilnius lies at 54.689 degrees north and the northernmost part of Lithuania is at 55 degrees north. The arctic circle ⭕️ begins at 66 degrees north. You’re such a funny guy that I’m still laughing at you.
@pauljackson4075 fyi
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@pauljackson4075 please google first ;)
@@martynaspiliutis so I did that and maybe you should also, but paying attention to detail. It seems there are numerous claims in numerous countries with numerous monuments. Each claim relies on a subjective interpretation of where the borders of Europe are. Your claim was made in 1989 by a Frenchman possibly computing the data alone. He may well be correct, but until a consensus of where the borders of Europe are and a reliable and verifiable measurement is made, I’m not buying it Marty. And claiming the Baltic region is not nordic is just plain nonsense.
@pauljackson4075 so you are saying that science peoole are stupid and only you are the smart one? I am not wasting my time dealing with flat earther anymore.
The best way to not upset is not calling our accents Russian(because the Lithuanian one is even more harsh and sharp and some other obvious historical reasons why).
If Lithuanian language would sound similar to Russian:
Number one: Russians did not struggle battling their own accent when speaking Lithuanian.
Number two: Lithuanian and Russian English accents would be identical.
You ate at Snekutis, it is the best.
shes speaking for herself on the 3rd
I completely agree with you about the eastern/northern point. Saying that we're northern europeans because of our culture doesn't make much sense to me
Think again. What kind off person thinks that Lithuanian culture is close to Chechenya :). So you want to say Lithuanians look more like Romanians, totorians, moscovians than Finns or Swedes. Lithuanians even are totally different to Polish. Lithuanian is Northern 100%
I would say, I'm middle european. East is in the past and north is just unreachable, not in economy way, but just by mentality.
... ring dings and Pepsi! The best thing to BRING and to SERVE at a get together! Yup, ring dings and Pepsi! :) (some of you will get that reference!)
@@seanshepard2000 you sho must like yo suga honey chile. Yeah seinfeld
Who doesn’t like cepelinai? My favorite Lithuanian food.
Obviously you cant just generalize everything and everyone, but there are quite a few truthful statements in the video. No touching is 100% correct, unless you are a hot women that I am interested in, sorry I dont like to be touched lol. Drinking/eating in someones house is nuanced. We dont expect you to eat everything we potential give you(the guest) But its in the tradition to make sure you are full and enjoying the food. The whole stuff with russians is just taboo. The less you talk about that the better for everyone. We dont like them thats about that. Saying that the food is bad depends on the people and where you are eating. If you are eating out, and the food quality is bad, you can say everything you want about it, but if its just a dish you might not like, well tough luck, dont go acting like foreign cuisines should automatic cater to your tongue. Small talk? Depends on the person, time, and mood. Do we want to know everything that happened? no not really, unless you are really close to me. Otherwise if we ask "how is life" or "how is it going on", you dont just start giving a full report of your life. Few general words, and if we want to talk more we will just ask more to the theme of conversation.
What about hugs?
Well geographically Lithuania is the most central Europe as it's literally in the center of Europe.... So we are either central Europe geographically or northern Europe politically.
If you look closer, Lithuania is Northern Europe by cultural and by geographical situation. It's not central and it's not eastern. Eastern is Russia, Belarus, Ukraine. Central is Poland, Chezk, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania or even Ukraine. And Lithuania, Latvia is closer to North, by everything. By culture, by geography, by skin and hair and so on. So wake up
In which country you dont hear russians?😂 they are everywhere
It is absolutely not correct to state that refusing alcohol is offensive. It is not at all!
I prefer being called Central European because Lithuania is the geographical centre of Europe in the Guiness Book of World Records
I do not get offended by Easter European term, as long as it not in an offensive way.
But, I do not like when people think that there are no differences between each of Eastern European countries, or when they think Russia and Lithuania are the same thing.
And about USSR heritage, I do not get offended if someone shows interest in it. Is part of our history and personally, I do not want to erase any of our history.
No comments. About that
Biggest insult is to go to Vilnius center and notice that 90% people talking in russian language. I never emigrated from my lovely Vilnius, but hearing russian language every day and everywhere i feel like this is not Lithuania anymore.
vien del to nemegstu to rusyno,kas antras rusiskai kalba
I respectfully request an explanation that explains why Lithuania's border guards mandate all bus travelers take everything out of all their luggage for inspection (including underwear) on a long table when crossing the land border. Belarus border guards use state-of-the-art x-ray machines with a conveyer belt like all airports to inspect luggage. I view this Lithuanian procedure as harassment that causes delays up to 4 hours at the border. Unfortunately, the EU has closed their air space for international travel from Belarus.
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Also don't quote statistics.
Sorry Lena, but the Lithuanian language does not, as you said, come from Sanskrit. The Lithuanian language is derived from proto-indo-European which was spoken by people from the Eurasian steppe north and east of the Black Sea. These were a pastoral people who through the use of ox drawn wagons spread their language west through Europe, south through the Caucuses, and east to northern India around 3600 bce. Greek is also an indo-European language.Due to the geographical isolation of Lithuania, your language has remained the most similar to what those people spoke. Probably more similar than Sanskrit. The Latvian language is also very similar to proto-indo-European. If you want to educate we Americans about your country you should probably know more about it yourself. And to the owner of this channel: I am one of those who is offended by your thumbnail! I wonder if you know who those boxers are?
Lina, you are stunning, such a beautiful woman and the national costume looks so good on you! But please, as a representer of Lithuanian culture and national costume, keep that top shirt button closed and show off that beautiful, hemstitched collar :). Also, traditional hair styles under a crown look so much better than loose flowing hair, which was never historically worn. I suggest putting your hair in plaits and pinning it into a low bun in the back.
Thanks for the cool video and best of luck!
I have always called LT "Eastern Europe" ad have only, ever meant it in a geographical way (not some pejorative term for Lithuania) - sounds like the "Northern Europe" thing is straight from marketing! :) - But I guess I kinda understand their thinking, they ARE in Northern Europe (also Eastern) and, well, at least here in the West (USA) , there is this "stigma"(?) attached to Eastern Europe - not exactly a bad thing, but not super positive, so, I guess I get it, but, to me, it's still in the East of Europe
So Lithuania geographicly is in the center of Europe. Just call baltic states. Some country's have a joke tht is eastern Europe and it is country that is in the east of our perspective
Well look at the map again then.
Pff... As a Lithuanian I have to disappoint you but Lithuanian is literally from the same language family as Slavic languages are :) it's called Balto-Slavic language family 😂 moreover, there's around 5% loan words from Slavic languages and Slavic languages (esp. Belarusian and Ukrainian) have some words borrowed from Lithuanian
Laikas pasimokyti daugiau. Visur šaltiniai sako, kad Baltic language.
The whole Northern/Eastern Europe thing is stupid, feels like the people insisting on us being Northern European are just doing it for some kind of PR thing. I've never met anyone that cares, and you have to be really full of yourself to take offense to that.
Sounds very old traditional indian culture
I am lithuanian and I hate cepelinai, it's no bad to say that, it's make sense 😁
Me too. My mother-in-law served it when I first met them and being a healthy eater the dish sitting in a bath of white fat was hard to take. Lots of good food though much of it comes from lands ELSEWHERE.
@@snuffle2269 really, in my family family me make cepelinai with very little fat. And I just eat my cepelinai with sourcream
Speaking about the sound of Lithuanian language, yes, it DOES sound like Russian for people who can't speak any of these languages. Phonology is pretty much the same, both languages have palatalization (Belarusian has it too) which isn't present in Latvian, both languages have mobile word stress. But it doesn't mean that Lithuanian and Russian are mutually intelligible. Portuguese also sounds like Russian but is totally different. Spanish sound similar to Greek but they are very much different. That being said, you can't deny some lexical similarities between Lithuanian and Russian because both languages come from the same branch of Indoeuropean languages. The core vocabularies of both languages have many similar words: galva/golova (head), ranka/ruka (hand), nosis/nos (nose), diena/den (day), sėdėti/sidet (to sit), ežeras/ozero (lake), stalas/stol (table), vanduo/voda (water), šviesa/svet (light), žvaigždė/zvezda (star), žiema/zima (winter), žemė/zemlya (ground, Earth) and so on. And that's not somehow unexpected because both languages are related. But they are still very different if you compare their vocabularies.
Speaking about being Northern or Eastern, Lithuanians are mixed. We have some Northern European traits (not Nordic!), some Central European traits and some Eastern European traits. Lithuanians claim that the geographical center of Europe is near Vilnius. So why is it surprising that we're Northern and Eastern and Central at once? But yes, saying "you're just like Russians" is VERY VERY much offensive.
If Lithuanian would sound like Russian in this case Russians would speak Lithuanian without an accent, right?
I can reassure you Russians butchering Lithuanian pronunciation very badly and they accent very distinctly recognizable as Russian. It's always a subject of joke how Russians speak Lithuanian.
But if you have no musical ear then ya
You probably speak about deaf people.
@@centrasseptyni8277Funnily enough, it's quite easy for a Lithuanian person to speak Russian without an accent, even as a beginner.
That's because we're innately superior ;D
@@centrasseptyni8277Not right, because every who speaks a foreign language has an accent while speaking that said language. Latvian is similar to Lithuanian and Latvians have accent while speaking Lithuanian. Swedish is similar to Norwegian and Swedes/Norwegians have accent while speaking Norwegian/Swedish. German or Swedish are very much related to English and you can clearly hear an accent when a German or a Swedish speaks English. So what's your point actually?
The "Lithuanian came from Sanskrit" is a bit erroneous. Yes, Lithuanian's related to Sanskrit via Indo-European family, which is the oldest ancestor of the language family, but it diverged from that point right after, giving rise to the Indo-Iranian family which contains Sanskrit, and the Balto-Slavic family that contains Lithuanian. And yes, Balto-Slavic does contain both Lithuanian and Russian. I can see how vastly different they are, but they're more related than Lithuanian and Sanskrit are.
That said, I still respect the Lithuanian sentiment to not get themselves involved with anything Russian.
Had Russians different government for the last 20 years, created better state and haven't started horrible wars our attitude would have been different. In 1991 Russian people supported us, our independence, there was about 100 000 demonstration in Moscow to support Vilnius, I still remember it. Now they can't demonstrate alone with a blank sheet any more.
Just go and learn more. Balto-Slavic - what are you smoking...
@@ASAS-dn4vedar vienas nesamones rasantis. Balto-slavic😂 nebegerk
When I think about the Northern Europe: I imagine something dark, cold, serious looking people, expensive, not that great food etc. When I think about the Eastern Europe: friendly and outgoing people, great food, affordable, funny traditions etc.
That does sound like Lithuania
@@travelvideos when I think about what you wrote: I imagine a narrow minded, bigoted, ahole.
To me, even fellow lithuanian do way too much small talking. I cringe. Just ask me something if you want to talk.
Pirmas!
a lot of these aren"t exactly true to be honest.
If you say oh lithuania likes russia because you were a part of it thats like saying the usa likes the colonial britan because you were apart of them. so don’t say it
The only in lithuania upsets me, is N-words in my school bro..
Deleting comments.... How ironic to Litwa "freedom" 😂
What was your comment? I don’t recall reading anything from you…
How ironic for a ruzzian troll to teach Lithuanians freedom
Geographically Lithuania is not eastern. It is central.
@@Jay-mc2dz you are so wrong in so many ways it is painfull. Good day to you, princess.
@@klevas17 Of course, anyone who disagrees must be wrong haha.. is it painful for you because you tried to use your brain?
@@Jay-mc2dzjezau sventas is kur tu cia istraukei tokia info?😂😂
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@@klevas17 Central Europe doesn't exist 🤣
Even though we like to boast that our language is similar to Sanskrit, in fact there are many more similarities between Lithuanian and the Slavic languages than between Lithuanian and Sanskrit. In any case, nowadays we wouldn't mind that much if someone said that Lithuanian is similar to Ukranian or Czech, would we? It's only about Russian that we get irritated due to historical and political reasons. From a purely linguistic point of view, however, Lithuanian and Latvian languages do belong to the Baltic Branch, while Russian, Polish etc. - to a Slavic branch of Indo-european languages. But there are also theories that these two branches once belonged to a common Balto-slavic branch which later split into separate branches. And even though this theory is not considered to be proven, there is a definite feeling that there is much more commonality between Lithuanian and Slavic languages than, e.g wth Marathi, Punjabi, Pashto, Farsi , Swedish, Armenian or Gaelic, which are all also Indo-european languages. Also, due to the long historical contact of Lithuanian with the Slavic languages there are many loan words. Not necessarily from Russian, but also from Polish and Belarussian. The Medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuanian was to a large extent a slavic-speaking country, but that slavic language was not Russian as we understand it in a modern sense. It was much more similar to the modern Belarussian or Ukrainian.
Jus cia rimtai paraset? Ar trolis esate? Nes musu kalba tikrai neturi panasumo su slavu kalbomis. Kaip ir kiekvienoje kalboje galima rasti panasumu, bet tai nereiskia, kad jos slavu kilmes.
well... i dare say lithuanian and russian have similar... absent of rythm to them. as in: accent fluctuates, can be anywhere in word, and thusly, has no such rythm as do languages with fixed accent on first (finnish, estonian, latvian) or penultimate syllable (polish etc). so, while languages are not similar, they can sound similar, esp to person with no understanding of either. like, finnish and larvian could. also, while in separate baltic group in indoeuropean languages, baltic and slavic and greek share similar case system. maybe sanskrit as well, am not familiar.
We are not Slavs, but our language does sound Slavic to foreigners, so getting angry over it foolish.
I really don't like this trend of Lithuanians getting butthurt for being called eastern European, it's like some kind of inferiority complex because of our past, being ashamed of who we are and wanting to be called northern or western to get the feeling that we belong. Time to get rid of that.
During the times of GDL or the Commonwealth, Lithuania was always like a link between the west and the east, between the catholic and orthodox parts of Europe and it's always been very multicultural and people were allowed to keep their different cultures and religions and coexist freely. However, in more recent history, mostly due to soviet occupation I guess, we were definitely eastern European culturally, and that's completely fine.
We were and we are BALTAI, pagonys. Why we should forget that but except slavic culture? People have wright to be Baltic nation not soviet nation.
@@mikomiko762 First of all, we haven't been pagans for hundreds of years already. Second - nobody's telling you to "accept Slavic culture", I'm saying that you should accept the Baltic culture for what it is instead of trying to make it something that it isn't. Being an Eastern European does not equal being Slavic. And we have been living with and next to Slavs for thousands of years, it's only natural that our cultures are similar in many ways, yet different in other's and that's fine.
One correction, baltic and slavic languages are parts of the same language group called balto-slavic family. Difference being - baltic languages split off into their branches a bit earlier than slavic.
That is simply wrong, this was the way of thinking 50-100 years ago. Baltic and Slavic languages groups split about 3500 years ago. Baltic languages speakers arrived to Europe at about 1500 B.C. In the other side, Slavic languages speakers arrived at Europe at 500 A.C. This is very well documented by many archaeological and linguistic evidences.
If you put Baltic and Slavic languages in the same group, by the same logic you can go even more back in the time and include also Germanic languages, as Germanic languages group split from Baltic and Slavic languages about 6500 years ago.
@@Mendogology i guess Robert Beekes, person who has PhD in indoeuropean languages was publishing his great grandparents manuscript in 2012 thinking it was still 1912. Same with M. Kapovic in 2017
@@Scheiseposter Antoine Meillet, Vladimir Toporov, Oswald Szemerényi, August Schleicher, Raimo Anttila, William R. Schmalstieg, Rick Derksen, Henning Andersen, Winfred P. Lehmann.
There is a short list of all linguists who separate Baltic and Slavic languages groups.
I guess Robert Beekes and M. Kapovic are simply wrong. Did they even took into account Baltic languages speakers arriving to Europe 2000 years earlier than first Slavic languages speakers? You know, right, that there are archaeological evidences of that?
@@Scheiseposter Also, if you want to understand about this, instead of just naming some linguists, who clearly have no idea, I recommend to check out about
- Change of liquid consonants and how they are similar in Germanic, Slavic and Baltic.
- Phonetical palatalization existence in Latvian, but not in Lithuanian, dismissing the myth of Baltic-Slavic having phonetical palatalization.
- Similar vowel systems between German and Old Prussian.
- How "ḱ" and "ǵ" consonants evolved in Baltic and Slavic languages.
@@Mendogology Yes, linguists who build whole career around indoeuropean languages are wrong. Yes. Legit.
the woman doesn't have a clue. Lithuanian does not come from sanskirt. There are some similarities, just like with other indo European languages, but nothing crazy. Lithuanian comes from sanskirt as much as it comes from Albanian or Portuguese. Apart from baltic languages (latvian being the only other surviving one), the closest languages are slavic. Slavic languages are close. Especially when comparing to sanskirt, which this silly woman thinks lithuanian comes from
One trol more as i see same story from different account😂🤦♀️
@mikomiko762 what?
How not to upset brits and americans: don't use such antagonistic thumbnails.
How not to upset Irish, Scottish or Welsh man calling him English.
I’m Lithunian (34 year) I almost never hear we are north europe.We are 100% east Europinians and nobody shame of that.We really not like Scandinavians😂 and nor russia but we definitely east europe and nothing to shame.About small talk its depends what age group you will take. 30 year and less like small talk.Its comes with soviet people who was afraid of communist neighbours
Ziurim ka turim. Geografija is wikipedijos:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Lithuania#:~:text=Lithuania%20has%20a%20humid%20continental,64.6%20%C2%B0F)%20in%20July.
I got charged by the police after I corrected a dude that told me Lithuania and Russia are the same. Niekad
I speak intermediate Russian and have visited Lithuania twice. Although shared vocabulary is limited, Lithuanian and Russian share linguistic features like cases, flexible word order, and complex verb forms-unfamiliar to me as a native Swedish speaker. Culturally, there are also parallels: not whistling indoors, customs around giving flowers and avoiding handshakes over thresholds. The dating culture in Lithuania also feels closer to Russia than Scandinavia.
For most part I agree. Lithuania got a lot of influence from Russia and visa versa especially in medieval times. That obvious for me too. But also is some fundamental differences. It's like someone would say Sweden and Germany are the same. And now when a lot of bad blood between Lithuania and Russia that differences especially obvious to us. We trying to keep distance as far as we can from Russia in all aspects. And since Soviet Russian occupation years distance only widening with every new generation.
In another hand globalization slowly makes all world somewhat similar
@@centrasseptyni8277I agree and noticed that in all the baltic states.
How about Lithuanians get out of the UK?
Aš esu lietuvis
Ok, as irgi Esu lietuvis, now what
Užuojauta tau...
Not entirely true regarding touching. I think it is more personal preferrence than cultural thing. I am lithuanian and I am pretty touchy person, I love to touch people's arms from time to time while talking to them.
UN classifies Lithuania and Baltic Stated as North Europe, and it's clearly seen on the map.
True. But try arguing in social media and you will be burned into the oblivion with these room temperature IQ people.
And it's clearly seen why.
Just curious - where have you seen such classification? Just checked that the Baltic States are part of the UN regional Group of Eastern European States (EEG).
@g26942 type "Northern Europe Wiki" and go to the classification...
Who cares. We were not Hanza. We are not protestants. Poland was and will be forever oir closest and logical ally. We are not northern Europe bu any means. You have no clue what swedish invation did to us. Historicallly, culturally, and believe systems wise we are central europe. We are aint Hanza, we are aint protestants, we were never northerners historically. Poles were (and I hope will) out best allies and neighbours. I dont remember any historical time (mac 1 year diff) when Lithuania survived after Poland failed. Never ever. Ever. We are bound forever! Greetings to the Poland!