Learning Lithuanian as an adult: cases, sounds and a realistic plan
Why Lithuanian feels hard, how heritage learners differ from beginners, which resources help, and a realistic plan for the first three months, six months, a year.
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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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Taking children to Lithuania for the first time: a practical plan
When to go, how long to stay, grandparents or city, what children enjoy in Vilnius, Kaunas, Trakai and the coast, documents to check, and a sample 10 day plan.
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Starting a Lithuanian community group in a new city
How to start a Lithuanian group where none exists: finding people, first events, a playgroup or weekend school, legal form, money, venues and volunteers.
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Studying in Lithuania as a student from the diaspora
Degrees, state support for Lithuanians abroad, English-taught programmes, summer language courses, and the residence, insurance and housing questions to settle.
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The Song Celebration and the diaspora's own festivals
A century of the Lithuanian Song Celebration, its UNESCO listing, the diaspora song and dance festivals, and how choirs abroad prepare and travel to take part.
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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.