Lithuanian

I'm looking at a semester exchange to Lithuania. The courses I'm taking are in English but I'd like to get a grounding in the language before I go. Apart from Latvian what other languages does Lithuanian share origins with ? It seems completely different to all other languages within the region. I've studied a bit of Czech and found it not THAT difficult, but how does Lithuanian compare ? I hear it's a difficult language to master.

>>1
no worse than anything else in the region. The hard part is finding study material.

>>1
Lithuanian is the most grammatically complex modern Indo-European language.

>>3
Indian languages are Indo-European too.

>>4
Yes, and it's more complex than they are.

>>5
I'm Croatian, i don't speak Lithuanian but i found i was able to understand bits and pieces of speech in a documentary. Can't be that much different? both Slavic languages. Maybe it was just the similar words. 
On the other hand i learn Hungarian and Georgian. Both are hard as fuck

>>6
Lithuanian isn't a Slavic language, but a Baltic one.

Get out of here, kuzu.

>>1
Why would you want to go to a nazi country like that

>>7
oh really? still similar words?

>>10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_languages

Relationship with other Indo-European languages

The Baltic languages show closest relationship with the Slavic languages, and are commonly reconstructed to have passed through common Proto-Balto-Slavic stage, during which numerous Common Balto-Slavic lexical, phonological, morphological and accentological isoglosses developed.

Lithuanian isn't a Slavic language, but Baltic and Slavic languages are related more closely to each other than other branches of Indo-European languages.

Thanks for the information. Yes, it seems that resources are scarce, even free online lessons seem limited in scope and vary with regards to things like pronunciation :/ Btw.. does anyone know about the similarities between Lithuanian and Czech/slavic grammar ?

>>8

How ever did you know ? :p

>>9

hurrr

>>12

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4056268/Colloquial_Lithuanian__book___CDs

>>13
lol no, faggot.

>>14

クズってぴったりよね、あんたに。