baltica Forum Posts (220)

RE: inbalance danger

I agree with you! But I think that the situation in Denmark is much better than in some larger European countries...
Lithuania is expecting a huge inflow of legal immigrants from the east to compensate for the loss of the country's population after the EU expansion. Some people are scared because of that as they think the nation will lose its identity, but I think that it may not happen if the government has a wise integration policy for the newcomers...
Anyway, I do not think that moving to the south for a few months a year like many Scandinavians do is so bad, I wish I could escape our chilly cold season as well!

RE: maltese roads

Sounds so much familiar, except that we drive on the right side of the road and have no mounted police...
Yet driving in Lithuania can be a paradise compared to what we see in some other countries of Eastern Europe (I will not name any. of course)!

RE: Where did everybody go?

Thank you, Marti!

RE: Where did everybody go?

Tusen takk - thank you!

RE: Where did everybody go?

I am here to make friends, romance may come or not, it depends.
I met the love of my life in a pen-pal column of a Polish art magazine... there was no Internet at that time, you know! So I decided to make another try, who knows what comes out of it...

RE: Anyone coming to Zurich..

Sorry, a bit too far for me...
Have not been further west than Germany and Denmark! Maybe one day...

RE: Where did everybody go?

Hi everybody!
I am new, and I am from Lithuania, a small Baltic country. I also miss our short summer... But I love the sea in any weather, even when it is not the beach season!

RE: inbalance danger

I think there will always be a balance in this actually very small world of ours...
About one tenth of Lithuania's population has left for the UK and Ireland, some are in Spain and other countries, since this country joined the EU, some have already come back, and some will never return. It is funny, but before that everyone seemed to dream about going to the USA, now it is in the past... Times change, and so do peoples' minds and expectations, don't they? :)

RE: tell the alphabet in your language

The Polish ABC looks like this:

A A B C C D E E F G H I J K L L M N N O Ó P Q R S S T U V W X Y Z Z Z

The letters Q, V and X are not used in Polish words, but one will see them in foreign names which are spelt in the original. The letters Ó and U are pronounced in the same way.

RE: tell the alphabet in your language

Here goes the Lithuanian ABC:

A A B C C D E E E F G H I I Y J K L M N O P R S Š T U U U V Z Ž

There are no letters Q, W and X in Lithuanian words, but they may be used in foreign names, etc., and the letter Y is placed after I because it is just the long variety of the same sound.