Say Labas Show

We are back!! It's been quite some time since we released a podcast and we are both super sorry for that. We just felt it was time to take a step back for a while and focus on other things for a little bit. That said lots has happened and in this episode we try our very best to catch you all up with what's been going on this side of the world. We spend some time talking all about two little Lithuanian otters at the Kaunas zoo (Yip Kaunas has a zoo), hear what Solveiga has started studying and how many Lithuanian students she has now. Our 60 second interview this week is with Ugne and it's a really awesome one! (She likes to laugh) News this week is all about Lithuania's president, Dalia Grybauskaitė and how she gets a new name and stirs up a scene in an exhibition in Italy. We wrap it all talking about the father of all rivers the Nemunas, did we mention the little Lithuanian Otters? :D hope you take the time to listen and enjoy! Let's get to it! IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN MORE ABOUT… Kaunas zoo and the

In today’s episode, we touch base with all that’s been happening since our last episode about two weeks ago. It’s been such a pleasure hanging out in Kaunas quite recently, there has been so much going on from throwing spears at Kaunas Castle to “ Kaunas Hansa days ” to a special tree that Rūta Meilutytė loves. We cover all this and more in this episode. We also got the chance to meet and hangout with two very special friends of the Say Labas show who took the time to visit Kaunas recently. We try our hand at speaking and understanding Latvian and fail epically. What does spaghetti, bridges and Lithuanians have in common? Nothing right? Wrong! We find out the connection in our news of the week segment, Romualdas a beekeeper and good friend of Tim joins us in 60 seconds with a Lithuanian and we wrap it all up with a fascinating museum found right here n Kaunas. Lets get to it! IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN MORE ABOUT… Rūta Meilutytė and her tree. Friends of The Say Labas

Welcome back, and thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to hang out with us. We are happy to say that spring has finally decided to arrive here in Lithuania and we have to say that it is extremely beautiful. We hope that in this episode you get a little taste of spring! In episode 40 entitled Happy at home or Lithuanian at home! We talk all about home, well… actually sentences and words that you can use at home :) and we obviously hope it will be helpful for your language learning. Our town of the week this time around is a little place called Prienai,. Prienai is located in very beautiful part of Lithuania and has two very interesting legends about the naming of this awesome little place. Our 60 seconds with Lithuanian is getting really popular here and in this episode we have Elena on the show, she is extremely patriotic and love Lithuania to bits it’s a huge honor to have here on the show. In Solveiga’s news of the week section we hear all about Lithuania’s first ever w

Hey everyone, we are back again with episode 39 of the Say Labas show, this week’s theme is LOVE, LOVE, Love in Lithuanian (All you need is love right?). The episode was of course recorded in Kaunas, and was suppose to be recorded and released around Valentine’s Day but we missed that mark… oops!!! you know what we don’t love? the weather lately… We are well and truly over it. There are signs of spring which is somewhat promising, hear about it on the show – hint – Gandras! In the show we spent a little time talking about what’s been going on lately with us here’s. Quick recap a fish called stinta, Lithuanian Football, Solveiga’s new found role as a Lithuanian Tutor and the old architecture around Kaunas. We also continue our new segment 60 Seconds with a Lithuanian, this week’s Lithuanian is one of our new friends called Valdas. He is a crazy basketball fan/player and loves passats! :) – Wh

We here at the Say Labas Show – Believe in freedom and that’s why episode 38 is dedicated to one of Lithuania’s most historic days! Lithuania’s restored Independence! The 11th of March 2015 or 11 Kovos 2015 will mark 25 years since Lithuania’s independence, a day that is not only special to Solveiga, but to all Lithuanians everywhere. It’s a day that all Lithuanians remember, that against all the odds, they as a nation stood up declared their freedom! In this episode we talk all about how Lithuania has marked this special occasion with events and ceremonies all over the country building up to this special day - Solveiga tells us about a few of them that caught her eye in her News of the week segment of the show. Also we chat a little about the #BelieveInFreedom motto for this years 25th anniversary. Along with Lithuanian Independence day, we have Freedom themed and vocab (which can be found on memrise) in our lesson section with some pretty tough sentences for you Lan

Labas! We're back with another new podcast episode, the last episode was dedicated to Lithuania’s favourite pastime, basketball. This time however its all about making friends, Everyone needs a Lithuanian friend, why? Because Lithuanians are awesome of course. We learn some useful Lithuanian sentences that we hope will help you along the way in making a few good friends in Lithuania. We spend some time talking about what we've been up to since the last episode, a trip to Silute, some traditional food, a crazy coach ride and more. As always we have our town of the week brought to us by a facebook friend of the show Rasa a place called  Juodopė, sadly no crocodiles this week (check out last weeks episode) in our news section but Solveiga tells us about one of Lithuania’s future stars, an actress named Aistė Diržiūtė. Our fun Lithuania fact is a surprising one, which may or may not be well known, it certainly surprised Tim when he found out – Hint the Lithuanian constitution. IN

Yes please! We are back it’s been around 2 weeks since our last podcast, we are hoping to get back to a more regular scheduled release pattern now that Kaunas is our home! We aim for new podcast episodes every Tuesday and a new blog post every Friday so look out for that. It’s still quite cold here in Kaunas but we are starting to get used to it now, or maybe it’s just getting warmer, one can hope right. A lots gone on since the last episode and we hope to cover most of it in this episode. The theme for episode number 36 is Lithuanian basketball, all you Lithuanian enthusiasts will know that Basketball is a second religion here in Lithuania and it was high time we dedicated an episode to it. Along with Basketball history, stories and vocab (which can be found on memrise) we talk about Lithuania’s recent Independence Day celebration that took place on the 16th of February. We both attended the celebrations here in Kaunas and were blown away by the amount of people w

Visit us at www.saylabas.com Hey! Labas! And thanks again for joining us. This podcast comes to you from Kaunas, Lithuania. Boy o boy has the temperatures dropped - 5c here, that said locals are saying this is a fairly warm winter so I’m guessing this is a good winter…? Not sure we would survive a -12c. Either way its mid-January and the snow has arrived… and with that episode 35! This week’s episode is an interesting one. We cover the Lithuanian verb daryti or “to be” in the lesson section of the show, we haven't done a verb in quite some time so it was about time that we did another. We go over all the forms of the verb and cover a few example sentences too. Remember that all of this week’s examples will be added to our accompanying memrise course so be sure to check it out over there. Along with the Lithuanian verb daryti, this episode is dedicated to the historic January events an occasion that is remembered every year in Lithuania

Visit us at home www.saylabas.com 2015 has arrived and with it the first episode of the year for The Say Labas show. We hope that this year starts right and ends happy for all our listeners. We had a lot of fun last year getting the show and the website off the ground and we are hoping to carry on with that momentum going in to this year. Do you have any special resolutions this year? Learn Lithuanian? Visit Lithuania? Let us know we would love to share it on the podcast. This is episode number 34 and this episode’s theme is “months of the year” or "Months in Lithuanian", we learn what the months of the year are in Lithuanian and we hear some of their meanings. Looking back we should have probably started with this way back in the first few episodes but as they say you live and you learn. Although thinking about it now the beginning of the year is a good time to learn the month’s right? It’s been a historic period for Lithuania, the 1st January 2015 marked the adoption

A very Merry Lithuanian Christmas to you, wherever you were and wherever you spent it! This is episode number 33 and this is what we are calling our Say Labas Christmas “special”. It’s a little late in getting out but who can blame us Christmas is just one of those times where a lot is going on… Presents, Shopping, Family, did we mention presents? :D You have to agree Christmas is one of the most amazing times of the year no matter where you spend it, there is just something very magical about it. This year however we got to spend Christmas in Lithuania. So we figured let us share with you our listeners what a typical Lithuanian Christmas is like, well for us anyway… This was Tim’s first ever Christmas in Lithuania and for him seeing all the weird and wonderful traditions, food and customs was something very special. So we will be covering what happens during a Lithuanian Christmas from Christmas eve to Christmas day some of the traditions, games and stories behind

Happy Birthday to Solveiga! What is happy birthday in lithuanian? Su gimtadieniu!! :D :D :D got it good!  Yip this is episode number 32 and we are here in Solveiga's hometown of Šilūtė celebrating her birthday Lithuanian style, with her family and friends. Home is always a great place to be when celebrating anything right? So of course this episode's theme is dedicated to birthdays and birthday celebrations, we learn some new vocabulary for dealing with birthdays as well some useful sentences. What more could you want right? We give an extra special Say Labas Birthday shout out to a Mr Vytautus Vaiciulis who is living in Telsiai and will be turning 99!! Yes 99 what a milestone and what a legend… Happy Birthday!! Su gimtadieniu!! This episode we learn all about a famous South African who is Lithuanian born? Intrigued? Take a listen to this weeks town of the week Obeliai to find out more! For those who like to see what they are hearing here is todays t

Visit us at home over at www.saylabas.com HEY!!! we are back!! Lets learn Lithuanian :D We have most definitely missed doing this and missed you our listeners... Last episode we were in a small mining town in South Africa. This time around we are back in Lithuania and ready to get podcasting once again. This is episode number 31 and this episode is dedicated to our recent trip to Africa. We spent the last 5 weeks seeing some of the most extraordinary places, people and animals South Africa has to offer we've seen Lions, zebra's, elephant's, rhino's name it we saw it. We've shark dived we've bungee jumped and met some amazing people from all walks of life. It was an amazing experience for Solveiga and we are glad we get to share it with you. We hope you managed to follow our trip on FaceBook or Twitter if not here are a few pictures from our trip. Having been on the go 24/7 we found it a little difficult to keep the podcast going and for that we are extremely sorry, th

Remember to visit us at www.saylabas.com for more awesome content. This is Episode number 30!!! And this time round we are podcasting from a small mining town called Pilgrims Rest in the East of South Africa, which would explain why it took a little bit of time getting this episode out. ZERO Internet! Apologies for that... The theme for this episode is money!!! love it or hate it, it’s all around us so we figured it would be a good topic for our 30th edition of the Say Labas show. Learn Lithuanian words and phrases lets talk money and all things related. We find out what Solveiga and Tim have been up to on their African adventure and why South Africans are a little unsure where Lithuania is… In towns and cities of Lithuania we hear all about a place in Southern Lithuania called Alytus and how it dates back to an incredible 1377. (Pretty old eh?) This weeks transcript of the lesson can be found right here. Below is this weeks dialogue from time to talk... w

Come visit us at our home www.saylabas.com for more awesome content. This is episode number 29 and this is your Lithuanian podcast, you guessed it we have left Lithuania and arrived in a new country!!! a slightly warmer country too, listen to find out where we have ended up. Four countries, 3 Continents and one podcast this is Say Labas :D!! What are we talking about? We travelled almost 10 000 km and managed to podcast a few little snip bits along the way to our "secret" destination... Have a listen! we hope you find it entertaining! This episodes theme is all about "in the plane"... words, phrases and some practise sentences to use the next time you find yourself on an aeroplane. Tim mentions an article he read about an extremely smart Lithuanian, for those of you who want to know more you can find the article right over here. In our Towns and Cities of Lithuania section you can learn all about a fascinating place called Plateliai found on the west bank of the beauti

Yeah!!! Episode 28 coming to you from our favourite place in the world, Šilutė. Yes we are back in Šilutė after a long and gruelling week and a half journey around Lithuania. Our adventures took us from Klaipeda to Molėtai to Vilnius to Kaunas and now back to Šilutė almost 1000km of driving. In this episode we recap just what exactly we got up to over the week and a half a part from all the driving :), our lesson this week is entitled "at the restaurant" we learn some new words and phrases we can use at the restaurant. Lithuanian restaurants have got to be some of the best places to practise speaking Lithuanian while of course eating some tasty Lithuanian food right? (We did food back in episode number 10 remember?) so its probably a good idea to know some useful words and phrases right... Obviously!! One of our favourite sections is towns of the week and this episode's featured town is a small little place called Jurbarkas

Visit us at the home of Say Labas here. Its freezing!! :) This past week we've been doing a lot of driving around in Lithuania, and after seeing truck upon truck upon truck we figured lets talk transport. So this weeks episode is dedicated to the fascinating world of Lithuanian transport. We will cover all of Lithuania's exciting modes of transport from Cars to Ships, Plans to Bikes exciting right? :D We thought so... Also in this episode we get an exclusive interview with Solveiga's grandparents giving us a sneak peak into one of their favourite places in Lithuania and what they did with all those apples we picked in Episode 24... you will be shocked Tim sure was! For the first time in Say Labas history our town of the week is also the same place where this very podcast was recorded. Molėtai is a small but very beautiful part of Lithuania with a long and fascinating history some of Lithuania's most beautiful lakes can be found here have a listen to our town of the week section to find ou

Warning this Episode is extremely awesome! :) This weeks episode starts off with much merriment, thanks to some very very jolly Lithuanian hunters. Tim tells us all about his time spent with these Lithuanian hunters in the forests of Vilkyškiai and from the sounds of that singing it was loads of fun. The lesson and topic for this episode was suggested to us by one of our listeners Laura, thanks for the suggestion Laura. Yip this lesson is all about animals in the Lithuanian language, we cover all the types of animals you are bound to run into, see and talkabout in Lithuania. We also find out why Tim needed to go on a little walk after eating something very unexpected recently here in Lithuania. :) Solveiga's Mom joins us on the show for a second time, for those of you on the ball you will remember we called her way back in episode number 5. Solveiga interviews her all about some of her favourite animals and pets she's had over the years. Our featured town this week is a l

It's Friday! Well here in Lithuania it is, and that's means another new episode from your favourite Lithuanian podcast Say Labas. We hope that you are enjoying all the picture, posts and podcasts from our time here in Lithuania we are having fun doing it. In this episode Tim and Solveiga give us a quick recap on their recent visit to Telšiai located on the shores of Lake Mastis and find out why bears are much loved in the Samogitia region. Any guesses what our town of the week is? We uploaded a couple photos on Facebook from our visit to Telšiai you can check it out there but we will be uploading a blog post all about our time in Telšiai soon!! :D Ok!!!... In this weeks lesson we learn all about signs and symbols! We learn some common words one could find on signs all around Lithuania. You see these signs all over the place and it would be terrible if you didn't get to see something awesome just because you didn't know what

Visit us at www.saylabas.com for more awesome content It’s been a busy couple of days for us here at Say Labas learning some Lithuanian useful phrases (well for Tim anyway), hunting, Apple picking, small villages  and good people. As you know we are podcasting and travelling all around Lithuania, for you our fine listeners, We hope you've had a chance to see some of the picture’s we’ve loaded on Facebook and  on Twitter. This is episode number 24 and as always we try to bring what we think will be useful to you, the Lithuanian enthusiast this episode is entitled useful phases “2”  original we know :) we went over some useful phrases way back in episode number 5. These phrases come to you all thanks to Tim these are some of the most common useful lithuanian phrases he’s used over the last 10 days or so during our travels. He hopes you find them atleast a little helpful :) what was some of the first phrases you used? Our Town of t

Visit us at www.saylabas.com for more awesome content. Episode 23 Countries, Yes Countries this episode was recorded in Šilutė, Lithuania. If you ever find yourself in Šilutė please be sure to spend some time walking along the river it really is very beautiful. See some of our twitter pictures from todays walk along the river. Why are we in Lithuania? Check out Tim’s latest blog post to find out why… Anyway this episode’s lesson is all about countries or countries in Lithuanian and how to say whether you are in a country or from a country yes there is a difference it can get a little confusing. After going over a few of these examples you will start to get the hang of it. It’s also a very special episode as we have finally managed to get Solveiga’s Dad on the Show, Tim interviews him in Lithuania or tries to… :) He asks to him about the countries he’s visited and the places he wants to go… It&rs