Lithuanian Out Loud

LL0210 - Pelyte Little Mouse Hi there, this is Jack and I’m Romas and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian Language.   You might notice that we’re not recording in our normal studios today, a lot of echo here, but we’ll just have to deal with it.   According to Wikipedia, Antanas Mockus, of Bogota, Colombia, is the former mayor of that city and he is the son of Lithuanian immigrants.  His full name is Aurelijus Rutenis Antanas Mockus Šivickas and as of 2010, he’s running for president of Colombia.  He’s the frontrunner in recent polls and has a very good chance of becoming the next president of this South American country.   Today’s episode was inspired by listeners James of Kansas City and Ebed-Melech who both posted references to this nursery rhyme which is similar to the English, “this little piggy.”  Thanks for the posts on the Lithuanian Out Loud blogpage, guys!   First, I want to mention we just went over half a million downloads of Lithuanian Out Loud ep