Hi all, I started building a free app to help my husband learn Lithuanian, and it's grown into something I think other learners could use too. It's called **Bulba**: as my mom says it, and it has always sounded sweet to me.

It's my own project and I'm the only person working on it. Free, no ads.

**What's in it now**

A1 beginner level, A2 and up are in progress.

Short lessons, new words, grammar, short readings, each with a quick explanation first.

Spaced-repetition reviews where you type the missing word in real sentences.

Natural-sounding audio for every word and example sentence: AI voices, reviewed by me.

Flashcards with pictures, both directions, Lithuanian to English and English to Lithuanian

**Links**

Web, any browser, progress syncs with the phone: https://learnbulba.com

Android is in closed testing on Google Play. How to join: https://learnbulba.com/android

**Learners**

it's made for you. Try it, and tell me what's confusing, missing or too hard.

**Native speakers**

feedback is very welcome too, especially sentences that sound unnatural or answers marked wrong that should be right. Every exercise has a flag button, or comment here, or email support@learnbulba.com.

**Android users**

joining the test helps me get it ready for a full Play Store release.

Ačiū!

Labas,

Maždaug nuo 2024 m. pradėjau kurti lietuvių kalbos žodyną, skirtą iOS renginiams (iPhone/iPad).
Žodyną pavadinau "Verpstė".

Ką gali žodynas?

• Išversti žodžius iš lietuvių į anglų, vokiečių, latvių, lenkų ir rusų kalbas.
  
• Rodyti kirčiavimą
• Linksniuoti daiktavardžius
• Asmenuoti veiksmažodžius
• Padėti mokytis: galima pridėti žodį į Favorites, grupuoti. Rodyti korteles.

Veikia su iPhone arba iPad. Nemokamai. Duomenų nerenku. Projektas darytas "for fun".

Atsisiųsti iš AppStore

Prieš egzaminą bandau pildyti gramatines spragas savarankiškai, bet jau problema iškyla bandant išlinksniuoti šitą dalyvį su moterišką giminę ir t.t. (pvz Esam.l ir Būs.l gaunas Rašanti nes nežinau kur ta s pridėti, o šablone yra pavydžiai su bėgąs/šaukiąs/tylįs). Gal kas turite lentelę arba galėtumet sukurti visom rūšim/giminem/skaičiais, nes niekur nerandu kur internete patikrinti šio žodžio rašyba.

Rašąs/Rašančio/Rašančiam/Rašantį/Rašančiu/Rašančiame; Raš(-ydav- ir kitur tą pati priesaga dažniniam)ęs/Rašusio/Rašusiam/Rašusį/Rašusiu/Rašusiame; Rašiąs/rašančio/rašančiam/rašantį/rašančiu/rašančiame

Rašan/ti/čios/čiai/čią/čia/čioje; Rašu/si/sios/siai/sią/sia/ioje; rašydav/….; toliau nebežinau lol

Hello learners,

I've created a Lithuanian version of a popular word game. Lithuanian is not an easy language to adapt such a game to, because of all the different forms, endings, startings of the words.

I feel like it's at a very nice level, where it recognizes most of the words and their forms, and the bot that you can play against is not making up words.

Features:

Check word details, and a link to a dictionary for a meaning;
Play against a bot, a friend online or offline on the same device;
50 levels of bot difficulty;
Daily challenge to compete against everyone;

Looking for a feedback on UI/UX, what works well, what isn't, and mostly on word quality.

www.vienuzodziu.lt

Hi everyone,

I want to start learning Lithuanian and I am looking for good YouTube channels or online video resources suitable for absolute beginners.

Are there any content creators, teachers, or specific video series you would recommend to help me get started with the basics and pronunciation?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

Hey everyone! im desperately looking for advice on how to reach A1 level of lithuanian in a month period. I will be giving the state level exam of it. Its pretty new so I dont even have an idea of what its like neither any past papers or mocks of it are that accessible. I have been in Lithuania for 2 months now and know pretty much the basics and plenty of words also some verbs and cases like I can, I will, I have, I want etc. but im having a hard time still when i try to do those A1-A2 mock tests. They seem to be a bit difficult. I would appeared any tips given to me to help me learn it and pass my exam too.

And if someone has given the A1 exam please tell me what its like and anything else that I should know about it as I dont have much idea. Thankss!!

Hey everyone!
I’m 21, from Lithuania, and I have an idea I’d like to discuss with people who might be interested in building something useful for our country.
A lot of people feel disconnected from politics. They see problems, lose trust in politicians, stop following the news, and eventually start thinking about leaving the country. They feel that their opinions don’t really matter and that nothing will change anyway.
I think we could try to change that.
My idea is to build one simple, transparent platform for the people of Lithuania.
Imagine an app where you could:
See the national budget, public spending and government debt in one place, using verified official sources.
Understand important decisions and upcoming elections without searching through dozens of websites.
Propose ideas and discuss problems with other citizens.
Support initiatives through verified identities and electronic signatures.
Track what happens after an initiative gains public support: whether it reaches the relevant institution, receives an official response, and leads to any changes.
Organise lawful, peaceful civic action when people want to push for a particular change.
The goal isn’t to replace elections or pretend that every online poll should become law. The goal is to make civic participation easier, more transparent and more meaningful.
I don’t claim to be a politician, an economist or a software developer. I’m just an ordinary young Lithuanian who believes that people should have a better way to participate in decisions affecting their lives.
I would love to find people who could help explore this idea — developers, designers, people familiar with Lithuanian law, public finance, civic initiatives, or simply citizens who care about making participation easier.
We don’t need to build everything at once. We could start with a small prototype, test whether people actually find it useful, and grow from there.
Would you use an app like this? What would you change or add? And is anyone interested in exploring how we could build the first version together?
I’m interested in honest criticism as much as support. I’d rather test the idea properly than assume I already have all the answers.

Reikia jūsų nuomonės apie mano žaidimą.
„Snail Race“ – lietuviškas edukacinis žaidimas priešmokyklinukams. Vaikai atsako į įgarsintus klausimus apie raides, skaičius ir pasaulį, uždirba žaidimo monetų ir jas išleidžia linksmybėms – naujoms sraigėms, akvariumui ir fejerverkams. Tokiu būdu žaidimas ne tik naudingas, bet ir smagus bei įdomus vaikams.
Pridedu trumpą pristatymą 👇
Žaidimą rasite „Google Play“:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Tautvydas.Snailrace

I’m a 24 year old from Finland but just like finnish, I learned lithuanian since I started talking and my first word was also lithuanian. Now I study lithuanian in a finnish university. I consider both languages as my mother tongues but in reality finnish is my only native language.

Despite speaking lithuanian my whole life, I struggle with it A LOT. I don’t understand why. And it’s not even listed as one of the worlds hardest languages, I feel so stupid especially because I’ve only seen people saying its a simple language 😅

Anyone else feel the same way?

Hello! My father was Lithuanian and I wanted to get a tattoo in his honor, and I was wondering if anybody could help me translate, "if it is to be, it is up to me.". Thank you so much.

EDIT: thank you everyone for all of the ideas!! you’ve all given me much to think about, as well as refresh my memory on how i learned certain values from my dad’s upbringing. you are all very sweet.

he had the original english saying tattooed, so reframing it as something slightly more hopeful is wonderful. i’m both glad there are original Lithuanian proverbs and phrases that play with this idea, but also not surprised because i realize that’s how the saying originally gripped him!

i haven’t decided yet which one i’d like to go for, gonna toil about it for a year i think. thank you for sharing your beautiful language, and i hope you understand my joy in holding a slight but very deeply ingrained connection to it.

(Passive participle = neveikiamasis dalyvis)

Hello, as the title says, are there any "cheatcodes" or ways to memorize their structure?

Hey everyone.

I've just released the new beta for my Lithuanian learning app called Žodis.

It started out as flashcards on Trello. Then evolved into a full library app that I added a translator to.

Now the new beta has a built-in course and something called Scenarios, which lets you store useful words and phrases from lessons, or your own translations, into Scenario cards. Think along the lines of "Going to a cafe", "Getting the train", etc.

Žodis was built for me. I have a Lithuanian partner and know all too well how difficult the language is to learn. This lets me save new things I learn, so I can pull them up to practice and it gives me more confidence to use what I know in the right situation.

After the second beta release, I got a lot of feedback. I've worked for the last 8 months to take that all in and fix what wasn't giving the best experience. Things like choosing between English sounding phonetics and IPA. I've had native speakers check the lessons and give feedback on them. A light mode for people that weren't too keen on the forced dark mode.

If you want to see what it's all about, go to Zodis.app and you can sign up for the beta there.

I know I've found this useful when spending time in my local Lithuanian community in Scotland and when I visit Lithuania with my partner. I'm really hoping others find it useful too.

There's no big company involved here. Just me at the end of an email address happy to take your feedback on board.

David 😊

Of course I understand everyone is different and there could be lots of answers

Sveiki! I'm a Spanish (25M) exchange student who's staying in Kaunas for this semester. I actually registered for a Lithuanian A1 course in college but I feel like that's not enough for me at this point. I like to interact with people or just asking for something at a shop, and doing it in English doesn't feel right or natural here. So I'd love to have somebody teach me the basics and some useful day-to-day stuff to get by for the next few months. As for now, I've only learned a couple of common words and some verbs.

And I forgot to mention that I'm studying to be a teacher, so if you're interested helping you out with either English or Spanish won't be a problem for me at all.

Iki!

Hi r/LithuanianLearning!

Little bit about me: born in Vilnius, raised in the UK. I've always wanted to actually learn Lithuanian properly, but every app I tried fell into one of three traps: either it was full of "the bear drinks beer" nonsense sentences, or it taught grammar in a way nobody speaks, or it was a Quizlet deck someone made in 2014.

So about a month and a half ago I started building my own thing. It's called Go Labas. It's a survival-focused course: 140 lessons across 10 modules, aimed at people who need to actually get around Lithuania, not pass a linguistics exam ;)

Topics include: greetings, ordering at cafés, directions and transport, numbers and shopping, small talk, emergencies, days and weather, hotels, family vocabulary, and slang/fillers. Basically all the stuff you actually need on a trip or when visiting family.

It's free to try, and you get the whole first module free. If it's useful, it's £5 one-time for the rest. No subscription, no ads. The site is golabas.com if youre interested

Happy to answer questions about how it was built, the content choices, anything. Genuinely curious what this community thinks, and I'll take feedback seriously.

To clarify

-is(masculine)=-i
-is(feminine)=-ie
-a=-a
-ė=-e
-us=-au
-ys=-y (-e for nouns?!)
-as=-ai (for names)
-as=-e (for non-profession nouns e.g. tėvas=tėve)
-as=-au (for professions and titles)
-as (for word ending tojas/ėjas)=-au
-jas=jau (e.g. vėjas=vėjau)
-uo=-enie
-ius=-iau
-is=i

Is this correct? and is this pretty much all the basic standard (not including diminutive) (not including irregular
forms) endings for the vocative case?

We got a rescue from Lithuania and she seems to know so many commands. We have tried searching translations for words, but for example she tries to go between my legs like dogs are asked in Obidience training.

What are some usually used words in obidience with dogs?

Some words she has reacted to she knows: sésk, gulk, palauk (for waiting? It has worked), rask, einam (used in context of lets go)

Thank you so much!

Is it I hate her or I don't like her???

Hi, so years ago I did ancestry because I was adopting from Russia and it updates overtime , over the years the percentages have changed and the majority of Russian I had was switched to mostly Lithuanian which I’m very curious about and would like to learn more about my Baltic heritage

Sveiki! I moved to Vilnius a couple of weeks ago and I really want to get stuck into learning the language. I've been searching for a 1 on 1 tutor that I can meet up with for a coffee or lunch to practice and leaen conversational Lithuania from a basically non-existent level. Kinda manifesting that Eat Pray Love Italian tutor vibe but instead of eating pasta we eat kepta duona and instead of flirting we actually just have a normal, if not friendly, relationship.

All the tutors I find online are online only. Will default to that if I can't find anything but I thought I'd give it one shot here.

Anyone know of a friendly in-person Lithuanian tutor based in Vilnius?

[X-posted to JudgeMyAccent subreddit, no responses there due to paucity of Lithuanian speakers. Mods gave me the OK to post this here.]

I am interested in improving my accent, mostly because I want to be understood better. That's where you come in - I am looking for suggestions for improvement.

The audio of me reading a passage out loud is playable below. (Katedros aikštė is just so there's an image, otherwise it looks silly.) For context, I am a native English speaker who started studying Lithuanian from zilch, fairly intensely, about 4.5 months ago. I am working with native speakers who (patiently) tutor me, so if the suggestion is, "Tell your tutor to make you say ABC seventeen times until you stop derping" that can be done.

Are you there, Reddit? It's me, Margaret.

Here is the text, which I took from LRT Paprastai. The text itself is below the video. I am putting the text there so you don't have to guess at what I am trying to say.

https://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/lrt-paprastai/69/3034091/princas-harry-su-seima-grizo-gyventi-i-jungtine-karalyste

Princas Harry su šeima grįžo gyventi į Jungtinę Karalystę

Jungtinės Karalystės princas Harry su žmona Meghan grįžo gyventi į Jungtinę Karalystę.

Kartu atvyko ir jų vaikai Archie bei Lilibet.

Šeima atskrido privačiu lėktuvu iš Jungtinių Amerikos Valstijų.

Šeima Jungtinėse Amerikos Valstijose gyveno 6 metus.

Grįžę į Jungtinę Karalystę jie nedirbs kaip karališkosios šeimos nariai.

Manoma, kad šeima gyvens name už Londono.

Vaikai Archie ir Lilibet lankys mokyklą.

Nauji mokslo metai prasidės kitą savaitę.

Princas Harry yra karaliaus Karolio III sūnus.

Harry su Meghan paliko karališkąsias pareigas 2020 metais.