Lithuanian Resources
Posted: Sun May 15, 2016 1:15 am
I was asked about resources for Lithuanian and I thought it would probably be better in its own thread here rather than buried in my log.
Textbooks
Grammar
Monolingual Dictionaries
Good dictionaries always contain stress/accentuation information.
Bilingual Dictionaries
There is rarely more than one bilingual paper dictionary available per language, so you don't really have a choice. Again, good dictionaries always contain stress/accentuation information, but the bilinguals often don't have them.
Websites and Online Courses
Tools
Let me know if you know other good resources or if you have any questions on Lithuanian!
Textbooks
- Beginner's Lithuanian (Dambriūnas, Klimas & Schmalstieg) - Very good textbook with stress marks on all Lithuanian text.
- Po truputį (Ramonienė & Vilkienė, 2008) - Standard Lithuanian textbook (+ exercise book). However, all content is in Lithuanian, so it's more suited for use with a teacher.
- Colloquial and Teach Yourself are both written by Ramonienė as well, so they're probably also quite good.
Grammar
- Praktinė lietuvių kalbos gramatika (Ramonienė & Pribušauskaitė, 2008) - Excellent grammar targeted at learners of Lithuanian. Clear layout and lots of example sentences. Also available in English as Practical Grammar of Lithuanian.
Monolingual Dictionaries
Good dictionaries always contain stress/accentuation information.
- Lietuvių kalbos žodynas - THE Dictionary of Lithuanian (Wikipedia)
- Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas - Dictionary of Modern Lithuanian
- Sinonimų žodynas - Synonym Dictionary
- Etimologinis žodynas - Etymological Dictionary
- Wiktionary - 8th largest Wiktionary with 600k+ entries! Useful because it lists inflected forms.
- Lietuvių kalbos rašybos ir kirčiavimo žodynėlis [paper] - Pocket dictionary with spelling and especially stress/accentuation information. Highly recommended if you only need that.
- Mokomasis lietuvių kalbos žodynas [paper] - Learner's dictionary with simple explanations and example sentences.
Bilingual Dictionaries
There is rarely more than one bilingual paper dictionary available per language, so you don't really have a choice. Again, good dictionaries always contain stress/accentuation information, but the bilinguals often don't have them.
- dict.com - No stress information! They offer 30 languages in all combinations, so individual dictionaries are not optimised. However, every word comes with lots of useful collocations/examples. Nice interface.
Websites and Online Courses
- Bliu Bliu - For many languages, but they're based in Lithuania, so have lots of material for it, even for total beginners.
- debeselis.net - 196 Lithuanian lessons and a forum for learners.
- Lithuanian Out Loud - Podcast (discontinued) with 289 episodes and notes.
- oneness.vu.lt - Short 10 lesson course.
- University of Texas EIEOL - Early Indo-European Online series. Intro to the Baltic family through original texts from a Indo-European linguistics perspective.
Tools
- Cooljugator - Conjugator for 4400+ verbs
- VDU Accentuator - Adds stress markers to a text
- VDU Morphological Analyzer
- VDU Machine Translation - English > Lithuanian
- Tilde Machine Translation - Russian <> Lithuanian <> English
Let me know if you know other good resources or if you have any questions on Lithuanian!