Little Listeners “Mano žodynas” (My Dictionary) by Richard Scarry

I'm invited to read a book today by your beautiful host. I have this book which has a Lithuanian language in it which is my background and where I come from and same for the host that's her background as well so this is something interesting to have a look and just see maybe if you guys have any family members that are maybe from another country or read another language so this is a beautiful book with drawings and translations of what the drawings are in both languages Lithuanian and English so we're gonna have a look and see what we can learn today so we've got so every page has a different theme so the theme that I've chosen for today is a farm with farm animals and we've got beautiful photos so it's really nice for learning you can see the photos even if you don't know English or Lithuanian you can actually learn what things are so we've got let's see we've got a weather vane which tells us the direction of the wind and in Lithuanian it's called Vėjarodis might sound strange but it's a beautiful little language that I know and it's my first language actually uh we've got this one which some of you might know what that is that's a sheep and in Lithuanian it's called Avis and oh I didn't read the title actually it's called which is the farm of the bear so where is the bear let's see oh yeah there's a little mama bear hanging up clothes has mama to do lots of washing to do and the clothes line in Lithuanian it's called Virve what else do we got what animals do we have in here we've got a cow right here which is Karve and then we've got a horse which is Aklis oh we've got a delicious red apple for the horse to eat and that's Obelis and a similar name for that is Obelis which is the name of the tree where the apples grow on so it's a beautiful way to learn what the subjects are whether it's in Lithuanian or it's in English or whatever other language you may speak at home so it's really fun to look at maybe if there's any family members from your family tree that speak another language maybe it's your mom maybe it's your dad maybe it's your grandparents and this book is really nice because it reminds me of my childhood so when I was little the drawings were really similar and even the way the animals are drawn it's a little bit different than nowadays it's more old school let's say but it's very simple there's no fancy 3d animations but it's just a really really beautiful colorful simple book that the little ones can learn about what things are and their names and I love when animals are friends I always which is really similar to English and Lithuanian which is patient which is a little tiger there oh sorry the lion was the doctor and we've got a little bear I think that's the same bear from the farm little mama bear she's also a nurse and we've got we've got a dentist we've got a rhino as a dentist very very nice we've got clothing items and another little bear I think that's the brother of the mama bear looks like it we've got names for rubber boots we've got snow suit which we don't need in the tropics here but it's a good word to me oh more animals animals are my favorite so let's see we've got an elephant in the corner there which in Lithuanian is dramblis and we've got beautiful little panda bear in the corner panda it's the same thing that's what I thought even though it's my first language I don't use it every single day so sometimes I forget and we've got a giraffe in there giraffe also really similar sounding we've got uh what else do we got in there we've got a lion which is glutas the king of the jungle as they say which is little monkeys dancing around here as you can see oh we've got a polar bear we don't have these here in the tropics either but we really oh we've got a little poem okay let's read this one while we've got it foreign so this was asking you about which animal is your favorite one my favorite one i would have to say the elephant which one is your favorite do you have a favorite animal I think all animals are really fun but you might have a favorite and we've got some colors there the wheel of color all the different colors oh this is actually really cool so it's telling you what colors to mix in order to make so for example to make green you have to mix yellow and blue together which I would have never expected I remember when I first learned that that was really really fun to learn and then we've got yellow with red which makes orange so red in Lithuanian is rodona and yellow in Lithuanian is and then you know we've got some very very fancy dinosaur with incredible colors somebody painted him really nicely dinosaur is dinosaurus oh so that's to count the numbers stage eight numbers we've got a really big whale we've got two walruses three little piggies we've got four bells five grasshoppers and lastly we've got six eggs and one is hatching at the end so it's becoming a little chicken so we've got this beautiful book I wonder if in your home there may be some books from maybe when your parents were young or maybe somewhere in a box or perhaps in a basement you might find another book it's a beautiful beautifully drawn book maybe in another language maybe in the language that you know or English simple beautiful creation for kids to learn objects and colors and animals just bringing it back to simplicity without any crazy animation just really beautiful beautiful natural views for our little ones to learn this is nice we've got a bit of countryside malumas a windmill stream lighthouse got so much going on here we've got celebrations got some christmas things there some halloween here's an owl flying a room our witch shventes is holidays in Lithuania there's a lot of nice things that we can learn from older books it doesn't have to be oh that's a Lithuanian flag here so we've got yellow green and red so geltona and a map of the world there with mama bear is mama bear a teacher is our mama bear a sister maybe a little bunny there drawing something nice drawing a flower didn't know it just grows in Lithuania so yeah this is the Lithuanian language which is the language that I first learned when I was a little one and then I learned English many years later have a little look maybe are there anybody in your family that would know another language ask them about it maybe it's your grandparents maybe you have to give your grandparents a visit say hello ask them about their background maybe there's some interesting stories that you can learn or hear from them I know I like to learn and how beautiful is it to have books like this nice and simple that I used to learn but in a fun way you got a little sleeping beaver there that's a booster is awakened got a bit of tug-of-war happening a little piece there a bit of stumptive pushing the ball spirtive kicking the ball eat and needs to drink we've got the car section for the ones that like trucks and cars let's see the tow truck and we've got what else motorcycles we've got a motorcycle that's the title of this page which means cars and trucks oh we've got a fancy sports car down the bottom there with the fox driving it that's a garbage truck you can't forget that we do need those because otherwise we'll have rubbish everywhere if nobody takes that out let's see what else have we got here oh we got some cowboy cowbears cowboy bears with the donkey has to look us and it's a whole country western in there a lot going on we've got a street light there we've got a shoe shop hitching post that's where people would tie the horses back in the day oh we've got a gold digging bear that was back in the day when people would dig gold in their towns so he's called oxaca sees he's a gold miner there and we've got us to look us a little donkey that's helping him carry the gold hopefully he's not a big piece of gold i went gold hunting one time it got actually no i didn't find it the person i was hunting couldn't even see it so that was really fun what else to reach but let's see more animals this is why this book is one of my favorites because of all the animals in there and they're all friends got a little turtle down there we've got giraffe which we already mentioned but oh they're saying okay so we're talking about height so this is so the giraffe is tall which is ouch this and excuse me elephant is big which is didalus and we've got a little mousey there if you can see it and that's little what else have we got and keep turning you see a lot of beautiful colors a lot of beautiful animals being friends together as we all should be even though we're different kinds of animals coming from different kind of places but we can all be friends even if we speak different languages or we look different you've got a page with all the birds on there folksy which means birds and let's see let's read a couple of names here we have we have a swan down there which is penguin and one more let's find how about chicken which we get eggs from this is the beautiful lithuanian book that is here to teach us some things in both english and lithuanian so i wonder if you've got a book like that somewhere at home that you could find or maybe if not nowadays it's quite easy to find stuff on ebay or maybe a garret sale or something like that or maybe ask your parents to see if there's anything like that laying around just have a look because you never know what you can find so this is it for this book here we go thank you for listening and this is lithuanian language here we go