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Beginner's Lithuanian (Beginner's (Foreign Language)) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Leonardas Dambriunas, William R. Schmalstieg, Antanas Klimas
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 152310
Media: Paperback
Pages: 230
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1.4
ISBN: 078180678X
Dewey Decimal Number: 491
EAN: 9780781806787
ASIN: 078180678X
Publication Date: October 1998
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Product Description
This book includes 40 lessons, a complete grammar section, conversation sections, etc.
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 The Best for and English speaker learning Lithuanian March 26, 2007
Raymond C. Balta
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The is the reprint of "Introduction to Modern Lithuanian" that I have used for many years. Still the best text available. Also, get the Routledge "Lithuanian Dictionary," actualy three books in one.
These two books will be an excellent "Lithuanian Language Library" at your
fingertips.
Beginner's Lithuanian February 5, 2007
A. Zaragosa (San Francisco Bay Area)
A must to try to grasp the Lithuanian language, one of 2 baltic languages left.
Still your best resource for learning Lithuanian. January 27, 2006
Dagfinn Aaslid (Vardo, Norway)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I used this book to learn Lithuanian before going there to spend five years studying culture and traditions. Over time I have become familiar with (I believe) all alternatives for studying Lithuanian. Despite its age, this classic method still remains the best.
There was one thing missing: recordings to go with the readings and exercises. But this is no longer so! Five hours of .mp3 files indexed to the full text can be downloaded at a nominal charge. IMHO these make the book much more suited for sustained self-study. There is also a free online Lithuanian-English dictionary:
www.afoto.com/lith
To hear a sample and see the interface between the book and the recordings, take a look at: afoto.com/lith/lith.htm
Lithuanian is not an easy language to learn. But I found that by listening and reading regularly for half an hour mornings and evenings over a period of a year I was able to have basic conversations with people once there.
There is one final reason to choose this book. While some reviewers here construe the text as hopelessly outdated, I have a different view. The authors are scholars with a long and sustained grounding in traditional Lithuanian life. As you immerse yourself in the stories and conversations you are also getting an intimate cultural encounter. This dimension is, as a rule, completely overlooked in more "modern" methods. It has been my experience that awareness of these "non-discursive" dimensions is what opened the doors to experiences and friendships I otherwise would have missed.
Impressive Book on lesser-known EU language December 5, 2005
James Paul Lacas (Anchorage, AK USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I received this book as a starting place for my year long study of Lithuanian with the ultimate goal of going there for my Master's Degree, which will be taught in English, but I figure most of my fellow students will be locals. Despite the lackluster reviews and other grumblings, I found this book to be an excellent beginning text. It stresses proper grammar and does include many spoken phrases. I have previously bought Jurgita Batushaityte's Lithuanian Dictionary & Phrasebook and found it quite lacking. Perhaps good in a pinch while stopping through the country on a whirlwind tour of the Baltics. I visited Estonia for about 3 months over the course of 2 years and enjoyed the experience and it whet my appetite for more. I have yet to go to Lithuania, but when I do I will stay for a year or two and need to know how to communicate in letters as well as speech. This book accomplishes that goal very well. I also was able to grab a copy of the Po Truputi CD-ROM recently, which is only in Lithuanian and includes many phrases and words pronounced by native speakers.
From a tutor's perspective August 26, 2004
Duchess (Lithuania)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
I have read the reviews for the book, and was quite disappointed. I myself am a Lithuanian, and I have been teaching Lithuanian for the past three months to an English speaker. From what i have seen published, even recently, there is not any other book that would cover grammar and vocabulary as well as this one does. Most likely, i would arrange the topics differently, but over all, this is a great book for a guided or independent study of Lithuanian language.
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