I second this. I just stumbled across her channel today and am only a few videos in, but I keep finding myself grinning and chuckling. I've also never been so quick to want to learn a language and culture...which marks her as a natural born teacher.
Germane Yes. I am learning as much as I can about Latvia and Baltic. It really is good that there is so much information I can find on you tube and Latvian vids by Latvians. These days I do hear Latvia mentioned more often then ever before. My daughters English class is reading a Novel and the main characters grandparents are Latvian.
Paldies Māsa Greetings from 🇱🇹 Lithuania! 🇱🇹 ♥️ 🇱🇻! You doing great work, for me also good to watch despite we are Baltic family I just understand 60 percent! I enjoying your Content Paldies!
Some of the info is incorrect, as Latvian is just a category 2 language, and it’s one of the easiest languages, not one of the hardest, not even close to the hardest languages ever lol, and Icelandic is one of the top 10 easiest languages ever and is category 1 and it is way easier than French and Spanish, while the funny language that was the 8th language included in the ‘category 1’ languages is at least a category 4 language with mostly non-pretty words that are naturally hard to memorize and with a heavy aspect as Polish, and Icelandic should have been included as a category 1 language instead, so, those classifications are totally incorrect for the most part and incomplete because they haven’t included most languages, and ppl shouldn’t repeat what they read on the Net that is listed as an official classification, as it only makes more ppl believe this incorrect idea that languages such as Icelandic and Latvian and Hungarian and Slovene and Finnish and Estonian etc are ‘hard’ when they are actually some of the easiest languages ever with easy pronunciation and that use the Latin alphabet, so they aren’t even close to hard or one of the hardest, and Russian is a category 5 language, while Chinese languages and Japanese etc are category 10, as there is a huge difference in difficulty level between impossible languages that use characters and languages that use an actual alphabet that is harder than the Latin alphabet which is the easiest alphabet ever, so they aren’t just slightly harder, but way harder, so the entire classification system is very incorrect and very inaccurate and should be from category 1 to category 10 at least, and it shows that those that make these systems haven’t even tried learning those less known languages themselves, otherwise they would know how easy they are to learn, they aren’t very different from French or Dutch or Swedish etc qua difficulty level, and if the ones that participated in the tests didn’t learn them faster, it’s either because they weren’t taught and explained in a clear way or because they didn’t have many resources as very known languages and the learners didn’t know where to find videos that would explain the differences, so stats and classifications in general aren’t always accurate and should be taken with a grain of salt, and, I am close to advanced level in Icelandic after learning it for a few months, and beginner level in Latvian, but Latvian is pretty easy as well! (Also, I am the only Lady / Leader etc and all other big superiority terms, and ppl cannot misuse such terms and other big terms that only reflect the protectors aka the only gentlemen / men etc, and cómpłiments also cannot be misused by ppl, and the 🌲 🌳 🌲 belong in the forest and are beings who are sacred and pure, not ‘x-mas decorations’ and, flowers also, so better examples should have been used instead, plus some examples from English, because some letters cannot be heard well, for example, I cannot tell the difference between the two G letters and the two E letters, maybe the first E is the short version, but I don’t know exactly!)
By the way, I highly recommend learning Latvian 2gether with the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic and also Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Faroese / Danish which are the prettiest and most refined and most poetic and most heavenly and coolest languages ever that are way too pretty not to know, plus they are all very easy, as pretty languages with pretty words are naturally easy to memorize and are naturally fun to learn - I am quite new to Latvian, as I only discovered it a few months ago, and it seems to be a pretty language with mostly pretty words, from what I have seen so far, so it’s on my list of target languages, same as Slovene, and I am total beginner in Latvian, so I only know a few words at the moment, and I’ve just started learning the sounds and alphabet, and I noticed that many words are similar to the Lithuanian words, and when I see a word that is prettier in Lithuanian I use it in Latvian, and I also do the same in Slovene when I see a word in Slovak that is prettier than the Slovene word, then every word will be pretty!
@@FrozenMermaid666 Category I: 23-24 weeks (575-600 hours) Languages closely related to English. Danish Dutch French Italian Norwegian Portuguese Romanian Spanish Swedish Category II: 30 weeks (750 hours) Languages similar to English German Category III: 36 weeks (900 hours) Languages with linguistic and/or cultural differences from English Indonesian Malaysian Swahili Category IV: 44 weeks (1100 hours) Languages with significant linguistic and/or cultural differences from English differences from English Albanian Amharic Armenian Azerbaijani Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Burmese Croatian Czech *Estonian *Finnish *Georgian Greek Hebrew Hindi *Hungarian Icelandic Khmer Lao Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian *Mongolian Nepali Pashto Persian (Dari, Farsi, Tajik) Polish Russian Serbian Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Tagalog *Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek *Vietnamese Xhosa Zulu Category V: 88 weeks (2200 hours) Languages which are exceptionally difficult for native English speakers Arabic Cantonese (Chinese) Mandarin (Chinese)*Japanese Korean * Languages preceded by asterisks are usually more difficult for native English speakers to learn than other languages in the same category.
Last summer we were in your beautiful country. We love Latvia! Now i start to learn latvian language. When we go back to you, i hope i will know some regular sentence. 😁 Greetings from Hungary!
Hello! That is so lovely to hear! I have yet to visit Hungary, but Anna has been to Budapest and loved it! Maybe she will agree to go on another trip to Hungary :))
I recently found out that my Grandfather was from Riga and so I have decided to see what this lovely language is all about, and to hopefully try and learn some. Watching you go through the alphabet to hear the sounds letters make and provide some interesting words and history along the ways is very feins! 🥰
Awesome video. I had a great laugh! We have different languages, but the cultural background you are very similar to Estonia! Greetings from your northern neighbour! :)
Visited Riga the first time in March before lockdown and fell in LOVE with the city! Admittedly, I didn’t get to venture too much past Old town because of my schedule, but am really looking forward to travelling back there. The people I met were warm and welcoming despite the growing uncertainties of COVID, and would definitely make a point of travelling there, even for a day trip next time I find myself in Europe.
Hello! So glad that you enjoyed Riga! I would like to spend more time exploring it as well.. seems like ages since I’ve been there... :/ Here’s to hoping that soon we’ll be able to drink alus on terraces and snack on ķiploku grauzdiņi once again :)))
Thank you so much! I am a young girl born and raised in UK but am from a Latvian family... I dont know much much before I watched your videos I was clueless with words in Latvian, I only knew my numbers from 0 to 5 I barely knew it at all! My grandmar's and my mum's teaching was kind of boring for me and I never learned anything from them because I would always be disracted or not interested. So I thought to myself why not watch videos? So I want to thank you sooo much for your wonderful content!!! Although summer every day I have watched one off your videos! Because of you I learned Latvian beautifully and efficiently! ❤ PALDIES!☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺💝💝💝 Have a blessed day!☺🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 From UK😘 Edit: you have a new subscriber ❤❤❤
As a Finn your alphabets make so much sense! Your write as you speak. Neat. Although it's interesting that you have a long and short version of a word, and hard and soft one. We just write out the double letters, for instance aamupala, uusi, etc. Aaand lastly, so you say your "e - line on top" also as an Ä sound? Strange that you haven't just used the same alpaphet 🤔
Hey! I never get used to the fact that people from other nations find my videos! Welcome! :) Yes, I’m some cases the difference between the long and short version of the word can be quite important to know. Like for example “Bākas” And “bakas”. The first word means “lighthouses”, the second - “smallpox”. :D And when it comes to ē... yeah, I guess we just wanted to “keep it simple” :D
that was so fun to watch I've been wanting to learn a thing or two about Latvian for quite some time, it being the oldest language in Europe. I love the sound of it too!
You rock my fb friend is Latvian and can’t speak English he can only write it so I’m trying to learn it but most apps don’t offer Latvian. Yes I’m aware it’s a complex language 😱 He’s the only Latvian that knows Aussie slang thanks to me lol. Paldies xxx
I’m Latvian but when I speak English you can’t even tell I’m from Latvia (I live in England and go to school there too) people say “omg I had no idea” when I tell them 😂😂
I really love your videos. Lately I have been just learning random, handy phrases and random vocabulary that I learn from watching kid videos that feature the alphabet in Latvian. I seem to learn it better if someone sings it to me 🙂. The alphabet is not as crazy as it could be and it helps that it is phonetic. I don't think I will be saying anything useful soon, but random words are fun!
Hello! I am from Lithuania! I am only a 14 year old boy, but I decided to learn Latvian, cuz it's similar to Lithuanian, sadly Lithuanians and Latvians can't understand each other fully, but I think, that atleast 50% of the words are similar. Sadly Latvian is the only language, which is similar to Lithuanian. But I noticed that we have some woman names, that are the same as Lithuanian! Maybe pronunciation could be a little bit different, but still we have names like: Jolanta, Laima, Milda and so, or maybe some letters can be different! A big thank you! You already helped a lot of people, I think! Well, you get a like and a subscribe from me! ;)
I will go to Riga for the 4th time, for a few days, and some weeks after, again with my Dad to show him around. Thankyou for you videos, and the short good to know things about Latvia and the Latvians.. I want at least learn how to pronounce it by now!
Alfabētu man mācīties tā kā nevajag, bet nevarēju paiet garām un nepateikt, ka šis ir visforšākais alfabēta paskaidrojums, ko biju redzējusi! Labs darbs!
Ha! Love your wit! Need to learn a bit of Latvian for our visit to Latvia soon for my nephew's wedding to a lovely Latvian lady. It's only polite, after all!
im Latvian :P, I could help you with learning or give you recommendations on places to visit. U can message me on instagram, my username is LupusAurora.
Hello! Thank you so much for your comment! I love to learn that you went to Latvia alll the way from Hong Kong. I hope you had a good time, I would love to learn about your impressions! :)
Ļoti labi! Īsi un kodolīgi, bet tajā pat laikā ar interesantiem faktiem un jociņiem. Ģerbonis tikai tāds mulsinošs piemērs varētu būt, jo tautā un arī video to izrunā ar garo 'Ē".
Latvian is over her being the hardest language while me a Norwegian knowing our language is one of the easiest for English speakers yet not that many people speak out language outside of Norway.
Lol I have 2 Latvian friends which is quite funny bc in slovak and can hear and see a lot of similarities in the two languages, lol I was curious so I thought I'd come by and have a looksie 😄💖
I can remember the smallest details about my friends or the characters they’ve created or random facts in history, or ideas for a few entire book series all in extreme detail. I can think up an entire book plot in seconds. But I can not for the life of me remember any other language than English, let alone speak it. And I can barely even speak English. And now I need to learn Latvian so I can annoy my grandpa on my dads side, and Spanish to annoy most of the family on my moms side. How do I delete some of the useless things in my mind to make room for other languages?
Thank you for this video. I found a Latvian version of a song I like and I wanted to learn it. Now I can. I don't know if it's been recorded but it is called "Kur Ir Ziedi, Dod Man Atbildi."" Be well.
Čeburek derives from Shamborek. Which means the borek (pastry) of Damascus (Sham or Šam). “Borek” (pastry) as a word ultimately goes back to the Proto-Indo-European root *bher- which meant "to carve, cut, split,". Today many countries pronounce it slightly different.
The pronunciation is very familiar for me as a scandinavian person👍 And the way of saying liqeure as burning wine is similar thing to swedish ”brännvin”
Germane Yes of course! I have seen a video from latvia where i feldt that your ”culture” was a beautiful mix of scandinavia, finland and slavic. Unlike your south sister language you almost don’t have any ”slavic” sound to your language while lithuanian to me sounds like a slavic language and if i didn’t know i would have thought it also was... latvian sound is more similar to scandinavia, finland and estonia :) Another thing i’ve noticed (more general to all of balticum) is that people look like a mix between scandinavians, finns and slavs. One thing that differ in pronunciation though is R... but only if u compare to some parts of sweden... like my part.... we use R in like three dofferent ways.... either it is silent... or it converts to a vowel and make more diphtongs (which we are very happy to use in blekinge😅)... if we have to use the R to not sound like idiots we pronounce it more like a mix between the dutch ”G”, the french ”R” and the danish ”R” 😂 I wanna visit balticum :)
Germane One thing i really like about latvian is the clearness of when the vowel is long or short etc... and that you use the č š kinda letters instead of use combination to get that sound. Finish also have very clear rules about the long, short vowels. But swedish is just overloaded with exeptions.... the rule of long or short vowel is that if the vowel stands before a double consonant it is short... but not always... and sometimes it isn’t a double of one consonant... it can be different... for example. ”En gammal gumma” (an old lady) and ”den gamla gumman” (the old lady). The ”A” in gammal and gamla is pronounced the same... and therefore it feels like you should spell it as ”gammla” but no thats wrong🥴 And i like when languages have specific letters instead of combinations... so instead of ”sh, tj, ch, sch, sj, stj, and many more” you have š, č and many more👌 Also you have specific versions of consonants that tells that they are soft or hard... in swedish it instead depends of which vowel that follows.... but of course... we have about as many exeptions to this as we have rule following....
Johan Fagerström Omg three ways to pronounce R??? That’s crazy. One thing that is great about Latvian is that sounds remain pretty consistent no matter how u use them. But then there is the consonant interchange in certain declinations and conjugations and the list of rules gets pretty long... People from Western Europe often tell me that they think Latvian sounds Slavic and I would more agree with you in that it does not. But I’m not sure if the people who think Latvian sounds like Russian convince themselves that it does or maybe it really does sound similar, when compared to Latin languages...
Germane The ”R” thing isn’t a standard swedish thing. It’s more related to dialects. The dialects of västergötland and östergötland have two ways each to pronunce R depending of different situasions i have no idea about😅 In skåne and småland they have a ”throat R” (and sometimes silent) In blekinge (my home) and halland the R is either in the throat, or it converts to a vowel or it is silent... and i don’t really knwo the rules of it... if there exist😅 it just happens naturally... though... in blekinge there are two sub dialects where they roll their Rs... one if them is as far west in blekinge you get and the other as far east you get. But standard swedish the R should be rolled and most dialects roll their Rs ;) I think the ones thinking latvian sounds slavic perhaps never have heard it or they have beforehand already decided to think that it sounds slavic just cause latvia have been part of sovjet ;) Lithuanian though have more if a slavic sound and perhaps people think lithuanian and latvian sound the same and therefore think latvian sounds slavic but they haven’t heard it? Cause to be honest... until just some weeks ago i had never heard latvian but i had heard lithuanian once. And ey! I’m 20yo and swedish... and latvia is one of our neighbours!! I should know how it sounds but for some reason we often forgott our eastern neighbours (exepts finland and åland). And now when i know how it sounds i think latvian is one of the most beautiful languages existing🇸🇪🇱🇻
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Nav tādā vādra Čau bet gan Čav tāpat kā (piemēram: man šodien nau laika) saka man šodien nav laika! Bet ļoti daudzi izmanto čau kas nav pareizi. p.s. tā turpini video super.
Enjoying the lessons, I sang a latvian song in my channel for Līgo but I am Spanish but fell in love with latvian music and recording a second song in it and making sure i pronounce well
Oh wow, I watched your video! You pronounce the words perfectly! That is so impressive. And the video is beautiful. How come you decided to learn a Latvian song? :)
@@irregularLatvian I compose fantasy and folk music and very often it is rooted in my love for Nature. I have a Latvian friend and she told me I was always bathing in creeks and wearing a garland celebrating what they called līgo and she pointed me to traditional Latvian music, was a love at first listen, curiously enough I play some kantele/kokle so was meant to be, people gathering to chant the joys of Nature gifts at midsummer? oh yes! . So I decided to surprise my Latvian friend and recorded this for her name day. I tried to keep the spirit and did my best not to mispronounce as I speak not latvian. Though I stop by videos now to slowly learn and improve and maybe visit Latvia one Līgo?
-_- Fabrika-Factory Fakts-Fact Faktiski-Actually and i can go on and on with starting wih f and now h, Haizivs-Shark Halāts-Bathrobe Haoss-Chaos Hameleons-Chameleon and Hantele-Dumbbell. Think before you write.
You made laugh at this lesson about the hammer-head. Have you ever heard someone calling "mango-head" because his head was kind of shape as mango. I have to laugh some more.
Love your sense of humor and appreciate you teaching us a little about Latvia along with the alphabet
I second this. I just stumbled across her channel today and am only a few videos in, but I keep finding myself grinning and chuckling. I've also never been so quick to want to learn a language and culture...which marks her as a natural born teacher.
es nespēju noticēt, ka es, kā latviete, noskatījos visu video, tā itkā neko nezinātu. 😭❤️
I am half Latvian. Growing up, no one I met had even heard of Latvia. Because of my Latvian last name, people would ask where the name comes from.
Thats wonderful that you found this community then :)
Germane Yes. I am learning as much as I can about Latvia and Baltic. It really is good that there is so much information I can find on you tube and Latvian vids by Latvians. These days I do hear Latvia mentioned more often then ever before. My daughters English class is reading a Novel and the main characters grandparents are Latvian.
@@ingc3852 do you know the name of this novel?
Paldies Māsa Greetings from 🇱🇹 Lithuania! 🇱🇹 ♥️ 🇱🇻! You doing great work, for me also good to watch despite we are Baltic family I just understand 60 percent!
I enjoying your Content Paldies!
Some of the info is incorrect, as Latvian is just a category 2 language, and it’s one of the easiest languages, not one of the hardest, not even close to the hardest languages ever lol, and Icelandic is one of the top 10 easiest languages ever and is category 1 and it is way easier than French and Spanish, while the funny language that was the 8th language included in the ‘category 1’ languages is at least a category 4 language with mostly non-pretty words that are naturally hard to memorize and with a heavy aspect as Polish, and Icelandic should have been included as a category 1 language instead, so, those classifications are totally incorrect for the most part and incomplete because they haven’t included most languages, and ppl shouldn’t repeat what they read on the Net that is listed as an official classification, as it only makes more ppl believe this incorrect idea that languages such as Icelandic and Latvian and Hungarian and Slovene and Finnish and Estonian etc are ‘hard’ when they are actually some of the easiest languages ever with easy pronunciation and that use the Latin alphabet, so they aren’t even close to hard or one of the hardest, and Russian is a category 5 language, while Chinese languages and Japanese etc are category 10, as there is a huge difference in difficulty level between impossible languages that use characters and languages that use an actual alphabet that is harder than the Latin alphabet which is the easiest alphabet ever, so they aren’t just slightly harder, but way harder, so the entire classification system is very incorrect and very inaccurate and should be from category 1 to category 10 at least, and it shows that those that make these systems haven’t even tried learning those less known languages themselves, otherwise they would know how easy they are to learn, they aren’t very different from French or Dutch or Swedish etc qua difficulty level, and if the ones that participated in the tests didn’t learn them faster, it’s either because they weren’t taught and explained in a clear way or because they didn’t have many resources as very known languages and the learners didn’t know where to find videos that would explain the differences, so stats and classifications in general aren’t always accurate and should be taken with a grain of salt, and, I am close to advanced level in Icelandic after learning it for a few months, and beginner level in Latvian, but Latvian is pretty easy as well! (Also, I am the only Lady / Leader etc and all other big superiority terms, and ppl cannot misuse such terms and other big terms that only reflect the protectors aka the only gentlemen / men etc, and cómpłiments also cannot be misused by ppl, and the 🌲 🌳 🌲 belong in the forest and are beings who are sacred and pure, not ‘x-mas decorations’ and, flowers also, so better examples should have been used instead, plus some examples from English, because some letters cannot be heard well, for example, I cannot tell the difference between the two G letters and the two E letters, maybe the first E is the short version, but I don’t know exactly!)
By the way, I highly recommend learning Latvian 2gether with the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic and also Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Faroese / Danish which are the prettiest and most refined and most poetic and most heavenly and coolest languages ever that are way too pretty not to know, plus they are all very easy, as pretty languages with pretty words are naturally easy to memorize and are naturally fun to learn - I am quite new to Latvian, as I only discovered it a few months ago, and it seems to be a pretty language with mostly pretty words, from what I have seen so far, so it’s on my list of target languages, same as Slovene, and I am total beginner in Latvian, so I only know a few words at the moment, and I’ve just started learning the sounds and alphabet, and I noticed that many words are similar to the Lithuanian words, and when I see a word that is prettier in Lithuanian I use it in Latvian, and I also do the same in Slovene when I see a word in Slovak that is prettier than the Slovene word, then every word will be pretty!
@@FrozenMermaid666 Category I: 23-24 weeks (575-600 hours) Languages closely related to English.
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Latvian Lithuanian
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* Languages preceded by asterisks are usually more difficult for native English speakers to learn than other languages in the same category.
My girlfriend is from Latvia. I dearly want to learn the language for her.
Same here ! I’m from England and I’m learning it for my online friend who is from Latvia!
Good luck both of you! Because Baltic Languages is one of the most hardest languages in the world!
@@ugnikalnis thank you :)
@@Emily-ik3ok can you give me and update of how far you have gotten?
Update on your learning?
Last summer we were in your beautiful country. We love Latvia! Now i start to learn latvian language. When we go back to you, i hope i will know some regular sentence. 😁 Greetings from Hungary!
Hello! That is so lovely to hear! I have yet to visit Hungary, but Anna has been to Budapest and loved it! Maybe she will agree to go on another trip to Hungary :))
U visted my country omg ty 💀💀💀💀
@@hi-re6bj wdym!?
Gurl you have Skelton ☠?
I recently found out that my Grandfather was from Riga and so I have decided to see what this lovely language is all about, and to hopefully try and learn some. Watching you go through the alphabet to hear the sounds letters make and provide some interesting words and history along the ways is very feins! 🥰
Tas ir forši! - That’s cool
Awesome video. I had a great laugh! We have different languages, but the cultural background you are very similar to Estonia! Greetings from your northern neighbour! :)
Aitah! :)
Visited Riga the first time in March before lockdown and fell in LOVE with the city! Admittedly, I didn’t get to venture too much past Old town because of my schedule, but am really looking forward to travelling back there. The people I met were warm and welcoming despite the growing uncertainties of COVID, and would definitely make a point of travelling there, even for a day trip next time I find myself in Europe.
Hello!
So glad that you enjoyed Riga! I would like to spend more time exploring it as well.. seems like ages since I’ve been there... :/
Here’s to hoping that soon we’ll be able to drink alus on terraces and snack on ķiploku grauzdiņi once again :)))
Es esmu no Latvijas un man ir ļoti savādi skatīties šo video :D
Piekrītu vecīt
Piekrītu
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@@frei8194 armyyy xD
Thank you so much!
I am a young girl born and raised in UK but am from a Latvian family...
I dont know much much before I watched your videos I was clueless with words in Latvian, I only knew my numbers from 0 to 5 I barely knew it at all!
My grandmar's and my mum's teaching was kind of boring for me and I never learned anything from them because I would always be disracted or not interested.
So I thought to myself why not watch videos?
So I want to thank you sooo much for your wonderful content!!!
Although summer every day I have watched one off your videos!
Because of you I learned Latvian beautifully and efficiently! ❤
PALDIES!☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺💝💝💝
Have a blessed day!☺🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
From UK😘
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I'm from Italy but i like Latvia
Me too , SPEAK IN ITALIAN DAMMIT
HAHA
@@leonardofagundescioffi3778 va bene no problem. chiedimi qualcosa tipo boh, per verificare
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਬੋਲੋ 😂
As a Finn your alphabets make so much sense! Your write as you speak. Neat. Although it's interesting that you have a long and short version of a word, and hard and soft one. We just write out the double letters, for instance aamupala, uusi, etc. Aaand lastly, so you say your "e - line on top" also as an Ä sound? Strange that you haven't just used the same alpaphet 🤔
Hey! I never get used to the fact that people from other nations find my videos! Welcome! :)
Yes, I’m some cases the difference between the long and short version of the word can be quite important to know. Like for example
“Bākas” And “bakas”. The first word means “lighthouses”, the second - “smallpox”. :D
And when it comes to ē... yeah, I guess we just wanted to “keep it simple” :D
I really like Latvia, greetings from Poland :)))
I’m polish and my internet best friend is Latvian
@@hweart40 hi whats app please
Hi
that was so fun to watch I've been wanting to learn a thing or two about Latvian for quite some time, it being the oldest language in Europe. I love the sound of it too!
Excellent my good teacher. I felt very much pleased. Thankfully I congratulate to you. Many many thanks Anete!!!
Thank you for your videos they are amazing!!! Greetings from a Brazilian dreaming to speak Latvian one day
My first language is Latvian yet I only understand some of this great sounding communication! Your accent is familiar thanks!
Sanskrit
Thay must be sad im only 13 and i know almost perfect latvian
Ģeniāls veids kā pastāstīt par Latviju. Good work :)
You rock my fb friend is Latvian and can’t speak English he can only write it so I’m trying to learn it but most apps don’t offer Latvian. Yes I’m aware it’s a complex language 😱 He’s the only Latvian that knows Aussie slang thanks to me lol. Paldies xxx
That’s so lovely!! Language exchange warms my heart! And it’s so important for the world, I think. Keep it up! :)))
HI MY NAME IS ELĪZA I FROM LATVIJA I'M A LATVIAN GIRL AND YOU WERY GOD SPEEK LATVIAN 😀
Did you mean: Hi, my name is Eliza, and i'm a latvian girl, and your latvian language is very good!
Terrible
Same but my name isnt elīza its denīze/denise 🤐🤐
You can tell when people are Latvian because of their accent but mines like an American and English accent combined.
I hear you. :) people never know where Im from.
I’m Latvian but when I speak English you can’t even tell I’m from Latvia (I live in England and go to school there too) people say “omg I had no idea” when I tell them 😂😂
@@SABINESLIFE lol when I was in American school for a year everyone thought I was Swedish XD idk why
Awesome video! More please! I need to learn as much as possible before my visit to Latvia at the end of the summer.
Lol I was curious about learning Latvian. I was not to serious about it. Now I want to learn you are great. Your sense of humor is on point.
Thank you kind sir :)))))
My aunt and cousian are latvian and i love the country
Hello from Colombia :D
great sense of humor!!!👏👏👏
Jeg møtte en fra Latvia i dag, og jeg vil lære mer om språket hans.
Labai gerai, kad yra tokie video. Ļoti labi, ka ir šādi video.
Just found your channel Anete. You are absolutely hilarious!! Loving these lessons 😁
Haha thank you so much, welcome! 😊
Im from Latvia and my name is Anete and this vidio was funny and i liked it
That’s awesome!!! :) hey there, sis :)
اللهم صلي وسلم وبارك على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين وسلم تسليما دائما إلى يوم الدين والحمد لله رب العالمين
Tervitused Eestist 🇪🇪👋🏾, for me as an Estonian I didn’t understand nothing, but it’s interesting.
Hello dear neighbor! Thanks for tuning in :))
I really love your videos. Lately I have been just learning random, handy phrases and random vocabulary that I learn from watching kid videos that feature the alphabet in Latvian. I seem to learn it better if someone sings it to me 🙂. The alphabet is not as crazy as it could be and it helps that it is phonetic. I don't think I will be saying anything useful soon, but random words are fun!
I’m very glad you find my videos useful! If ever there are specific phrases you’d like to learn, give me a shout! :)
i am lithuanian and it's similar to latvian, so I randomly decided to learn it
2:47 Life of boris vids kick in
Really interesting!... Brangs Video
I like the culture of Latvian and language from Pakistan.
Hello! I am from Lithuania! I am only a 14 year old boy, but I decided to learn Latvian, cuz it's similar to Lithuanian, sadly Lithuanians and Latvians can't understand each other fully, but I think, that atleast 50% of the words are similar. Sadly Latvian is the only language, which is similar to Lithuanian. But I noticed that we have some woman names, that are the same as Lithuanian! Maybe pronunciation could be a little bit different, but still we have names like: Jolanta, Laima, Milda and so, or maybe some letters can be different! A big thank you! You already helped a lot of people, I think! Well, you get a like and a subscribe from me! ;)
I am try to learn Latvia's language. Very nice.
I will go to Riga for the 4th time, for a few days, and some weeks after, again with my Dad to show him around. Thankyou for you videos, and the short good to know things about Latvia and the Latvians.. I want at least learn how to pronounce it by now!
Brangs horses, brangs arms😂😂😂
Great Presentation, I like Latvia very much beautiful country, loti Paldies :)
Alfabētu man mācīties tā kā nevajag, bet nevarēju paiet garām un nepateikt, ka šis ir visforšākais alfabēta paskaidrojums, ko biju redzējusi! Labs darbs!
Great videos Anete!
Paldies, Anete!
Ha! Love your wit! Need to learn a bit of Latvian for our visit to Latvia soon for my nephew's wedding to a lovely Latvian lady. It's only polite, after all!
I support you..
Please go ahead..
(From Bangladesh)
Great lesson, thanks, I'm studying at LU and I need to learn Latvian, so I'd like to meet local ppl, if anyone is interested plz send me, thank u guys
Ah! Im so happy that you Find It useful! :)
I can help you im latvian if you have discord or any social sites i can teach u a bit
im Latvian :P, I could help you with learning or give you recommendations on places to visit. U can message me on instagram, my username is LupusAurora.
@@irregularLatvian How old r u?
Love from Hong Kong!💕 Didn’t learn much Latvian in my exchange study in Latvia 2years ago. Gonna learn it and travel to there again 💪🔥
Hello! Thank you so much for your comment! I love to learn that you went to Latvia alll the way from Hong Kong. I hope you had a good time, I would love to learn about your impressions! :)
Ļoti labi! Īsi un kodolīgi, bet tajā pat laikā ar interesantiem faktiem un jociņiem. Ģerbonis tikai tāds mulsinošs piemērs varētu būt, jo tautā un arī video to izrunā ar garo 'Ē".
Paldies,hello from Finland
Iam from Latvia
Fun Fact re: @ 2:58 In Germany, cats were often referred to as 'roof rabbits' (dachhase).
Feins video! :))
Latvian is over her being the hardest language while me a Norwegian knowing our language is one of the easiest for English speakers yet not that many people speak out language outside of Norway.
Sveiks ! Poļu 10. grūtāk apgūstama valoda !Tāpēc latviešu valodai grūtāk ! 10 th most difficult language to learn !So it more difficult the Latvian !
Lol I have 2 Latvian friends which is quite funny bc in slovak and can hear and see a lot of similarities in the two languages, lol
I was curious so I thought I'd come by and have a looksie 😄💖
Welcome aboard! :)
I’ve heard it from someone else soo that Slovak language is somewhat similar sounding. Must investigate further :)
I can remember the smallest details about my friends or the characters they’ve created or random facts in history, or ideas for a few entire book series all in extreme detail. I can think up an entire book plot in seconds. But I can not for the life of me remember any other language than English, let alone speak it. And I can barely even speak English. And now I need to learn Latvian so I can annoy my grandpa on my dads side, and Spanish to annoy most of the family on my moms side. How do I delete some of the useless things in my mind to make room for other languages?
Interesting
Thank you for this video. I found a Latvian version of a song I like and I wanted to learn it. Now I can. I don't know if it's been recorded but it is called "Kur Ir Ziedi, Dod Man Atbildi."" Be well.
Čeburek derives from Shamborek. Which means the borek (pastry) of Damascus (Sham or Šam). “Borek” (pastry) as a word ultimately goes back to the Proto-Indo-European root *bher- which meant "to carve, cut, split,". Today many countries pronounce it slightly different.
Lieliski pasniegts!! 🙂 Ļoti interesanti bija vērot, lieti noderēs mācot kādam, paldies par centību! Viennozīmīgi gaidu otro daļu😊
Daina Paegle prieks, ka patīk, un paldies par atbalstu! :)
Why I never had such a teacher? 😂
now i know why we call vodka degtinė in lithuanian
Ah dang. Just got called on an lds mission to Baltic region speaking Latvian. Gonna be a tough one, I got like 5 months to learn.
The pronunciation is very familiar for me as a scandinavian person👍
And the way of saying liqeure as burning wine is similar thing to swedish ”brännvin”
I guess there should be many more similarities as Sweden had us for a bit. Would be interesting to study :)
Germane
Yes of course! I have seen a video from latvia where i feldt that your ”culture” was a beautiful mix of scandinavia, finland and slavic.
Unlike your south sister language you almost don’t have any ”slavic” sound to your language while lithuanian to me sounds like a slavic language and if i didn’t know i would have thought it also was... latvian sound is more similar to scandinavia, finland and estonia :)
Another thing i’ve noticed (more general to all of balticum) is that people look like a mix between scandinavians, finns and slavs.
One thing that differ in pronunciation though is R... but only if u compare to some parts of sweden... like my part.... we use R in like three dofferent ways.... either it is silent... or it converts to a vowel and make more diphtongs (which we are very happy to use in blekinge😅)... if we have to use the R to not sound like idiots we pronounce it more like a mix between the dutch ”G”, the french ”R” and the danish ”R” 😂
I wanna visit balticum :)
Germane
One thing i really like about latvian is the clearness of when the vowel is long or short etc... and that you use the č š kinda letters instead of use combination to get that sound.
Finish also have very clear rules about the long, short vowels.
But swedish is just overloaded with exeptions....
the rule of long or short vowel is that if the vowel stands before a double consonant it is short... but not always... and sometimes it isn’t a double of one consonant... it can be different...
for example. ”En gammal gumma” (an old lady) and ”den gamla gumman” (the old lady).
The ”A” in gammal and gamla is pronounced the same... and therefore it feels like you should spell it as ”gammla” but no thats wrong🥴
And i like when languages have specific letters instead of combinations... so instead of ”sh, tj, ch, sch, sj, stj, and many more” you have š, č and many more👌
Also you have specific versions of consonants that tells that they are soft or hard... in swedish it instead depends of which vowel that follows.... but of course... we have about as many exeptions to this as we have rule following....
Johan Fagerström Omg three ways to pronounce R??? That’s crazy. One thing that is great about Latvian is that sounds remain pretty consistent no matter how u use them. But then there is the consonant interchange in certain declinations and conjugations and the list of rules gets pretty long...
People from Western Europe often tell me that they think Latvian sounds Slavic and I would more agree with you in that it does not. But I’m not sure if the people who think Latvian sounds like Russian convince themselves that it does or maybe it really does sound similar, when compared to Latin languages...
Germane
The ”R” thing isn’t a standard swedish thing. It’s more related to dialects.
The dialects of västergötland and östergötland have two ways each to pronunce R depending of different situasions i have no idea about😅
In skåne and småland they have a ”throat R” (and sometimes silent)
In blekinge (my home) and halland the R is either in the throat, or it converts to a vowel or it is silent... and i don’t really knwo the rules of it... if there exist😅 it just happens naturally... though... in blekinge there are two sub dialects where they roll their Rs... one if them is as far west in blekinge you get and the other as far east you get.
But standard swedish the R should be rolled and most dialects roll their Rs ;)
I think the ones thinking latvian sounds slavic perhaps never have heard it or they have beforehand already decided to think that it sounds slavic just cause latvia have been part of sovjet ;)
Lithuanian though have more if a slavic sound and perhaps people think lithuanian and latvian sound the same and therefore think latvian sounds slavic but they haven’t heard it?
Cause to be honest... until just some weeks ago i had never heard latvian but i had heard lithuanian once. And ey! I’m 20yo and swedish... and latvia is one of our neighbours!! I should know how it sounds but for some reason we often forgott our eastern neighbours (exepts finland and åland). And now when i know how it sounds i think latvian is one of the most beautiful languages existing🇸🇪🇱🇻
Nav tādā vādra Čau bet gan Čav tāpat kā (piemēram: man šodien nau laika) saka man šodien nav laika!
Bet ļoti daudzi izmanto čau kas nav pareizi.
p.s. tā turpini video super.
Ir "čau" nevis "čav".
Kopš kura laika “čau” raksta “čav” un vārdu “nav” vairs neraksta beigās “v”, bet “u”...kurā skolā tā māca?
Absolutely awesome 👌 Learning from Ireland
Welcome on board! Let me know How you get on ;)))
My friendship group and boyfirend all speak Russian, latvian and polish i only know english! One day I'll learn latvian fully tho:) I'm working on it
Seeing this for Mikhail Nekhemyevic Tal.
Sveikilabrīt!!how do you say in latvian:my very dear friend i really appreciate ir and thank you very much for everything from the bottom of my Heart!
Enjoying the lessons, I sang a latvian song in my channel for Līgo but I am Spanish but fell in love with latvian music and recording a second song in it and making sure i pronounce well
Oh wow, I watched your video! You pronounce the words perfectly! That is so impressive. And the video is beautiful. How come you decided to learn a Latvian song? :)
@@irregularLatvian I compose fantasy and folk music and very often it is rooted in my love for Nature. I have a Latvian friend and she told me I was always bathing in creeks and wearing a garland celebrating what they called līgo and she pointed me to traditional Latvian music, was a love at first listen, curiously enough I play some kantele/kokle so was meant to be, people gathering to chant the joys of Nature gifts at midsummer? oh yes! . So I decided to surprise my Latvian friend and recorded this for her name day. I tried to keep the spirit and did my best not to mispronounce as I speak not latvian. Though I stop by videos now to slowly learn and improve and maybe visit Latvia one Līgo?
@ghostcrab311 aww thank you... Btw already recording a latvian traditional about the sea 🐭
I AM FROM LATVIA 🇱🇻Čau!!!
By the way - all words in Latvian beginning with F or H are all foreign words.
-_- Fabrika-Factory Fakts-Fact Faktiski-Actually and i can go on and on with starting wih f and now h, Haizivs-Shark Halāts-Bathrobe Haoss-Chaos Hameleons-Chameleon and Hantele-Dumbbell. Think before you write.
Elite Gamer9000 Tu tikko pats apgāzi savu argumentu. Visi tavi minētie vārdi nav latviešu cilmes vārdi..
):[ Tieši to jau es teicu: "Starp citu - visi vārdi Latviešu valodā, kas sākas ar F vai H, visi ir svešvārdi". Īpaši neattapīgiem pārtulkoju. ;)
Im from latvia:Es esmu dzīvoju latvijā
Helloo.
I am new subscriber.
You are very beauty with brain
I'm your new subscriber.
Lovely video💜
Army?
Nice mam great wark
Hey, you are amazing, the video is super helpful.
Thank you Very much :)
Feins Video Very useful
Hi I’m an Asian tourist, do you know where I can find rice in Latvia?
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Did I mention I come here for Anete? Viņa ir lieliska!
Runcim Patik!
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Sveiki, esmu no Latvijas :D.
Ir intresanti skatīties šo video, bet tas ir nedaudz dīvaini.
Vareni! :)
there arent many resources on latvian so thank you so much! you're engaging and post consistently which is so nice ♡
The jokes are awesome.
Urā! :))
I love the constant political commentary on corruption and misery. I feel like at home... 😭
You made laugh at this lesson about the hammer-head. Have you ever heard someone calling "mango-head" because his head was kind of shape as mango. I have to laugh some more.
Hahah! Where are you from? :D
Try Cebureks? Imma try you when Im there.
4:52 pa-da-pa-papaaa i love that shit
A = aplaudēju stāvus! B = bet, dari vēl tādus video.
Paldies!! :))))
милая девушка
Hi friends I love you
Great
Flemish is the most difficult language in the world.
Lovely video!