Lithuanian noun cases without the headache
The seven Lithuanian cases explained in plain English: what each one does, one table with two everyday nouns, and the order that makes them easier to learn.
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Lithuanian life abroad, written down plainly.
PLBE is for families who keep a Lithuanian thread running through life in Chicago, Toronto, Dublin, Manchester, Melbourne or anywhere else: the language at the kitchen table, the holidays, the old records and the paperwork that comes with a second passport.
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Family papers in the basement: what a cracked foundation means for them
Emigrant letters and old photographs in the basement? How to spot foundation cracks and damp early, and protect the family archive while it is fixed.
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What a bathroom remodel looks like in a family between two countries
Planning a bathroom for grandparents, visiting cousins and bath-time children: the questions a family between two countries should settle first.
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Vėlinės abroad: keeping All Souls' Day far from the family graves
Candles on graves, names read aloud and a quiet supper: how Lithuanian families abroad keep Vėlinės when the graves they would tend are thousands of miles away.
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Getting the house ready for Easter guests when the walls need painting
Parents flying in for Velykos and the spare room looks tired? How to choose which rooms to repaint, share the jobs and finish well before Easter.
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From the reference library
- The Seimas and World Lithuanian Community commission: what it is forHow the joint commission of the Lithuanian Seimas and the World Lithuanian Community is formed, what it discusses and what happens to its resolutions.
- Lithuanian citizenship and the dual citizenship question, explainedHow Lithuanian law treated dual citizenship in late 2016: the Article 12 limit, the 2010 Law on Citizenship, its exceptions, and why the debate went on.
- The Lithuanian Charter of 1949: what it says and why it was writtenWhy exiled Lithuanians issued the Lithuanian Charter in June 1949, what its thirteen short articles ask of people abroad, and how it shaped the diaspora.
- How the World Lithuanian Community is organised: its constitution in outlineA plain English outline of the World Lithuanian Community constitution: who belongs, and how national communities, the Seimas and the board fit together.
- The World Lithuanian Community: a primer in EnglishWhat the World Lithuanian Community is, where it came from in 1949, how its national communities, Seimas and board fit together, and what its youth wing does.
- Lithuanian emigrant archives in North America and how to use themWhere Lithuanian emigrant papers are kept in the US and Canada, from Putnam to Chicago to Mississauga, and how family historians and students can ask for them.
- Pasaulio lietuvis and the Lithuanian diaspora pressA guide to Pasaulio lietuvis, the monthly for Lithuanians worldwide, and to the emigrant papers of Chicago, Toronto, Sydney and London, with tips on old issues.