Saturday, November 04, 2006

Gražiausia pasaulio kalba arba menkumo kompleksas = The most beautiful language or "the littleness complex"


Linkėjimai iš snieguotos Lietuvėlės :)
Man patinka kalbos
ir be galo įdomu pažinti kitas kultūras,
Jeigu anksčiau būtumėte manęs paklausę,
"Kuri kalba tau gražiausia pasaulyje?"
Aš nedvejodama būčiau atsakiusi:
"Prancūzų, italų, ispanų arba makedoniečių".
Niekada nebūčiau pasakiusi "Lietuvių".
Labai keista, bet tai būdinga daugumai Lietuvos piliečių:
žvalgytis ir mokytis iš Vakarų
pamirštant savo šaknis ir
nuvertinant savo kilmę.
Tai - labai liūdnas ir "nesveikas" požiūris, sakyčiau.

Vakar mane pribloškė suvokimas, kaip aš myliu
lietuvių kalbą,
kaip gera ją girdėti ir ja šnekėti...
Taigi, nesumeluosiu, kad MAN
GRAŽIAUSIA PASAULIO KALBA YRA MANOJI-
GIMTOJI LIETUVIŲ KALBA.

Aš nusipurtau mažos ir sąlyginai nereikšmingos valstybės
tarptautiniame rate komplekso
IR AŠ DIDŽIUOJUOSI ESANTI LIETUVĖ.

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Greetingz from the snowy Lithuania!
I like to hear and learn different languages
I am curious to know other cultures
I am very flexible and open
in these issues
As the majority of Lithuanians
This seems to be an advantage,
But sadly enough,
I think, many of Lithuanians
have forgotten and devaluated
their roots, their culture and their language.

As I told you before,
Lithuanian is the oldest Indoeuropean language that remained,
therefore, linguists from all over the world
come to study it,
but we, Lithuanians,
asked what is the most beautiful language,
would speculate:
"Italian, French, Spanish, Macedonian (in my personal case)".

It struck me yesterday to understand,
that: "No, it is not true! I love hearing Lithuanian language,
I LOVE SPEAKING LITHUANIAN,
IT IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE
TO MY EARS!!"

Lithuanians are great people, but they have suffered too much
and after the exhausting and dehumanating suppression by Russia,
it is natural that they have turned their sight
to the capitalistic Western countries
to take them as examples
how to live now.

But the problem is that
the history of events
has taught us to feel the burden
of relatively small and insignificant country
in the international context.

Therefore, young and middle-aged people
devaluate Lithuanian culture and language,
which is a very "unhealthy" and dangerous attitude, I think.

A picture is done by my friend and ex-roommate Dalia near our student house in Vilnius.

3 comments:

Kristina said...

As taip pat:) Nepaisant to, kaip nepaprastai man patinka anglu kalba, ar kokia grazi man beatrodytu prancuzu, lietuviu kalba yra pati nuostabiausia pasaulyje :D

Lora said...

Taigi va, šaunuolė... :)
Vadinasi, radau bendramintę!
Džiugu girdėti!

Bryce Wesley Merkl said...

Those were wonderful comments and beautifully written!

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