3 YEARS Living In Lithuania: An Update On Foreigner Life 

Hey there! Just writing an update to say that I’ve made another channel to better focus on my personal experiences of Lithuania. This channel will focus on Lithuanian geopolitics, military, and defence/security. You can check out the other channel here: youtube.com/@lithuaniaexplainedvlog?si=8RijI-sKDzOcquZA

I'm a simple Latvian, I see Lithuania I press like. Congratulations on your child.

You've clearly grown and your videos have become more of someone who knows Lithuania and less like a foreign visiter. Nice. 👍 Congratulations on your child!

Congratulations !!! I hope you can learn a lot of Lithuanian, it's a language it deserves to be learned in order to keep it alive. Your child would be bilingual giving her/him a great advantage in this modern life. I think Lithuania is a great place to live in full of green and all the confort of a developed country. Cheers from Colombia ;)

Lithuania is a great country, i was there for the fifth time last month and i bought my father who is 81 and he loved it too. Im studying Lithuanian so i can talk to anyone. My pronunciation isnt that good but i still get my point across.

Do not be afraid to say "prašau, kalbėkite lėčiau", it is not weak to do so. Or to use "kalbėk" instead of "kalbėkite", if you are speaking to a friend. You have expressed a huge courage already by learning the language, locals (correct me, if I am wrong) will be happy to speak to you more slowly, let alone speak in their native language, which is natural to them, unlike English. Unless you speak with some of the youngest people in this world, who will respond in English either way, because English is influencing lives of all of us, both positively and negatively.

Congratulations on the planned newborn! Your videos are very useful not only for foreigners living or planning to live in Lithuania but also for Lithuanians who live here. Believe it or not, there aren’t many quality online channels in Lithuanian language in this genre. The best and most useful media of this sort comes from your own channel and a few Russian language channels run by Russian or Belarusian newcomers, some of whom you already know and have cooperated with. Therefore, it’s genuinely interesting to watch your videos despite myself being Lithuanian and Vilnius being my home city which I know fairly well. Also, kudos for mentioning topics like urban planning and traffic. This is one topic that Lithuanians unfortunately have very little understanding of, and the fact that you are touching these subjects is much appreciated. Vilnius has a big problem with its public transport and urban planning, or rather lack thereof. It would be awesome if you brought this up a little more often and perhaps even produced a few videos in the style of @NotJustBikes or similar successful channels that create similar videos to yours but with an emphasis on quality urban planning, transport, and public spaces. Thanks again for great videos and keep up the good work!

I am greek and I'm in Lithuania right now. I arrived the day before yesterday and i will be staying here for about a month, because I am participating in a research exchange program as a medical student. The first impression of Vilnius is really nice. It has a lot of trees and green areas which i enjoy. Your videos have been really helpful and informative about daily life

Thanks for learning our language! Its awesome to hear that.

That's some big news, congratulations! And don't worry about fluency in the language for now, no point putting a timer on that. Take one step at a time and augment your knowledge bit by bit. Your dedication is setting a good example not just for foreigners in Lithuania but for everyone living in foreign countries anywhere in the world.

Didziausi sveikinimai! Congratulations!

I adore how lowkey your announcement of having a child was, haha. Clever way of not making it the center focus of the whole video. Moments of creativity like that are why I, as a Lithuanian, love this channel. Congratulations, by the way!

Its amazing how here in East Europe everybody dreams to go to USA or Canada, but the americans and canadians want to live here in our countries. Im from Romania and I was very astonished when I found out that many americans,english or italians live in my country and love it here.

Just gotta say, cause I don't know if anyone else has said/will say this. We appreciate you just for the effort of trying to adapt to Lithuania (even if you don't realistically need to, cause you work from home) and people will definitely notice that you've learned Lithuanian when you do break through the language barrier. I just gotta say, get out there and get talking, there is not better way (my great grandfather didn't speak a lick of russian, got thrown into the soviet army, came back fluent) so yeah, maybe you can take a page from that and get out there speaking, we're not much for small talk as you probably know, but I bet you can still have some conversations with some people for sure.

Congratulations

You have an excellent channel and it really shows that you care about production quality. I truly appreciate the time you take to make these videos, whether it is a popular topic that gets 70k views or something more niche with 3k views. Looking forward to the 4th update.

omg y'all are gonna be parents the next time we meet! So happy for you both, sveikinu 🥳💕

Congrats!

Congratulations for the baby! :)

So excited for you! Huge congratulations! Although I'm sure you've run into some issues, I'm increadibly happy and proud that you are enjoying life in Lithuania

Happy news, wishing your growing family all the best wishes.

Great life, beautiful Country ❤

Congrats! Sveikinimai!

Congratulations on the future fatherhood! Raising a child in Lithuania, if you decide to do so here, I would argue is better than in Canada or the US.

Leave history to historians. From Poland with love to our Lithuanian neighbours. And congrats to you on soon to becoming father ❤

Congratulations on your news! I tried to learn a language in the classroom, but all we were doing was chatting and cracking jokes. Of course, adults can't be shut down. I like to take a notebook and go to the riverside to study. There, I can repeat words with the background noise of rumbling water.

You’re gonna be an awesome father, with or without full control of the Lithuanian language 🫶

Congratulations 👏. Thank you for sharing information about Lithuania. İ like your videos

Been to Vilnius 2 times now, December 2022 and August 2023. I must say Vilnius/Lithuania is a beautiful city/country love the atmosphere and the people definitely planning on going December this year again. Thank you for posting about Lithuania, A lot of people don't know about Lithuania and that surprised me honestly. keep up the great content! Hopefully there will be a 4 years Living in Lithuania update.

Congrats man!!! Keep up the hard work and you will get there ;)

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Sveikinimai!

I’ve been here for almost 4 years now and I really love it here.

Congratulations on being a father for the first time!!!! Quick question: is the booklet at min 6:35 that you are using to study Lithuanian available to buy somewhere? I am trying to learn the language myself:) Thank you for your awesome videos!! I am in Vilnius until end of September..from the USA.

I’m American but I’m supposed to go to Kaunas for some time as apart of my program at a university here in the United States. I heard that Kaunas had a more “authentic Lithuanian” feel to the city compared to Vilnius. Either way, I’m excited as a traveler myself to explore Lithuania.

congrats!!

Congrats man!!!

Congrats on the baby!!!

Congratulations on becoming a father! 😊

Thanks for your videos. They help me a lot. I will go to Lithuania soon from Hong Kong because of the terrible situations.

Eu estava planejando ir pra Lithuania em breve, e com teus vídeos estou mais ansioso pra ir kkk continue postando, adoro ver vídeos da Lithuania e dos bálticos

congrats! Trust me, with a little one running around, you will learn FAST! lol - just look at how fast my 5 year old godson picked up English in a 4 week trip here, and (as much as I hate to admit it), how mych MORE Lithuanian I learned, from him, while he was here! (he would tell me, " ne buk pletku boba!" lol - I had never heard THAT before) - congrats, again, and on to 15k subscribers!

Congrats!! 😀

Congratulations and Greetings from Curitiba, Brazil

Congratulations on expecting your first child🤗

Just retured from a 3 week holiday in Lithuania yesterday. I was also amazed by the amount of support for Ukraine in Lithuiania.

Congrulations! And about the language don't be afraid to speak in Lithuanian even if it's broken. I spoked broken Germany for two years and now i'm pretty much speaking fluently of course need a lot more to learn but it's not that hard if u try everytime.

Wow! I'm glad that I subscribed to your channel. I hope you’ll enjoy your being a father of a new Lithuanian soon.

Holy shit congratulations! So... someday we will have two channel hosts maybe? Best wishes to your family! 😄

Nice! A2?! I’ll be honest, many people live their entire life here and got poor A1 :) So you are safe! And thank you for this effort! Congratz on be a father by the way )

Congratulations to you and your wife

Gratz!

Lithuania is a very nice, up & coming country. Like Poland, they will be damned if ever ruled over again! In Chicago area, quite a few Lithuanian descendants live here.

You will learn lithuanian with Your child. That's great. Sveikinu! ;)

CONGRADULATIONS!

CONGRATS! Now there's a reason to jam to Tele Bim Ban, Voro vestuvės, Kakė makė songs!

New sub here! :)

Amazing video!! Ir sveikinu tapsent tėvu!!!

Cool to see Elvyra in your video, she is also my teacher :D

An interesting country - some wonderful places.

Grats🎉

Best of luck :)

If you're giving yourself another 3 years to get decent at learning the language, then that's absolutely possible. You'll have already lived there for 6 years! My Lithuanian parents moved to the U.S. in their early 40s and learned enough English to get by on their own in that amount of time. My dad solely from working, and my mom from both working and taking a community college course. Working seems to be a good way to be forced to learn. And if it's a basic kind of job, just doing manual tasks alongside others, then you can potentially get a good basic language foundation.

We may not agree on everything, but I enjoy your videos. I enjoy visiting Vilnius on my way to Minsk. I noticed prices are fair/ cheap on things I've purchased in Lithuania, compared to here in the U.S. me and my fiancee are considering purchasing a property in Belarus as prices there are also cheap, especially with a foreign income. Congratulations to you and your family. Best wishes!

Hey you should do video about ethnographic regions in Lithuania, and how we have different accents kinda like Uk.

O wow sveikinimai🎉

Is the university course your main source of learning Lithuanian? Or do you do your own studying as well? I don't mean set homework but watching or listening to native content, using apps or websites?

Wish the best for you and your soon-to-be family! Sėkmės su mūsų kalba lol, I'm sure you will get the hang of it eventually :)

Sveikinu, tevai!

AWESOME LITHUANIA

Congratulations on parenthood! I love Lithuania (my wife is from near Kaunas) and I try to visit at least once a year.

Labai gerai! Maybe one day I can meet up with you in Vilnius! I am looking to move there as well, my parents are Lithuanian and I am conversational in Lithuanian currently. What is the process to buy/rent a place in heart of Vilnius?

Congrats (sveikinimai) :)

I live in Amsterdam. I pay $2500 / month for my flat :)

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Congratulations on the baba

Congratulations! You will be a great dad. Keep up the excellent work. Please don't worry. I live in the United States, and I have not seen any of my presidents.

❤🎉

Yeah the Polish Lithuanian relationship is weird but yeah we do (and should) be friendly to eachother. There's Lithuanians (Lochuanians) who are against polish (not old people btw). They usually get "beaten up" in comments by Lithuanians themselves.

congrats on upcoming fatherhood. you will make a great tėtis (papa)

sveikinu! siprybes ir kantrybes !😎👍

Sveikinimai su gausiajančia šeima ;)

Congrats, you're now half Lithuanian:D no backsies

does anybody know the best online app for learning Lithuanian for an English speaker

Interesting

Oi. Next July 15k subscriber celebration where ? :>

Tėvas is more like formal word. Most kids say: tėtis, tėtė, tėtukas.

They really need to pass that duel citizenship. I want to come home.

i free to live there bcz iwanna from my country

Say history of the three crosses of vilnius thanks

Sveikinu naują tevą/tėtį :)

*"oi sermuksnio eng" playing in the background*, yes, you are starting to understand.

Yo king what do you work as? Can you share or no? Would love to work from home

I have to wonder do Lithuanian really care if people speak English or Lithuanian? I think when it comes to language we just want nothing to do with russian. And English is official language of EU and I think we're Okey with that.

Actually in the surroundings of vilnius you meet more poles than in vilnius itself. Sometimes i feel it is even more russian than lithuanian. 😢

Now you've just got the motivation that cannot be bigger enough. Congrats :))

i am not sure but the baby dont need both parents to be lithuanian to be lithuanian ?

Yeah, tėvas is great formal word, but tėtis or tėvelis or tėtė is better. In some parts of country is even rude and impolite to say to your father is tėvas.

congratulations on your first, hopefully not the last child.

Pirmas!

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