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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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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Lithuanian surnames: why the endings change for wives and daughters
Why a Lithuanian father, mother and daughter carry three forms of one surname, what the neutral -ė form is, and what happens to the endings on foreign papers.
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Uzgavenes and the spring holidays Lithuanian families keep abroad
Masks, pancakes and the burning of Morė, then Lent, Palm Sunday verbos and Easter eggs: the Lithuanian spring calendar, and how families abroad keep it.
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Tracing Lithuanian ancestors: parish books, revision lists and where they are kept
Where Lithuanian parish books, revision lists and interwar passport files are kept, how names shift between languages, and a worked search from a US record.
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Kucios abroad: keeping the Christmas Eve supper far from home
The twelve meatless dishes, the hay under the cloth, the empty place and the straw fortunes of Kūčios, with a shopping and cooking plan for families abroad.
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Raising children in Lithuanian and English: what families actually do
One parent, one language, the kitchen rule, grandparents on video and summers by the Baltic: how bilingual families abroad keep Lithuanian going, age by age.
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Restoring Lithuanian citizenship by descent: the basics
Who can reclaim the Lithuanian citizenship a grandparent held before 1940, who may keep a second passport, which documents count and how the application works.
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The waves of Lithuanian emigration, from the 1860s to the 2000s
Coal towns, coffee farms, DP camps and Dublin building sites: the main waves of Lithuanian emigration, why each began and what each left behind abroad.
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