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Sofia is capital of Bulgaria situated in western part of the country. I had opportunity to visit this city 4 times and I really would like to visit it not one time. In the beginning I had a little bit different opinion about Sofia. It was a city I didn’t felt in love from the first sight, maybe even from the second. But now sincerely I want to come back there. The first thing what get scared me a lot – homeless dogs,

Extract from interview with Sarah Hanselin, Erasmus student from Colorado (the United States), sharing her experience in Lithuania. I came to Lithuania because of my Erasmus studies, I had to choose country and I choose Lithuania. I did it for a lot of reasons, but the biggest ones probably would be that Lithuania is such a unique place to go. A lot of American students when they choose to student abroad to go to pla

In the kitchen of their home-hotel in Vilnius an artistic girl and a music creator together  have created a song that mix English, Lithuanian and Italian for express their feeling, and the feelings of the other 5 Italian friends taking part into the Leonardo Project, on their three months experience in Lithuania. The main topics are the difficulty of the language, the discovery of a new place and new sensations… List

Sveiki! My name is Veronica and I’m a … vagabond! Yes, because I love to travel and learn languages to get in touch with the country that give me hospitality. I had several experiences all over the world, in Costa Rica (AFS Intercultural Programs), England (TGS Eurogroup), Germany (Limes Project), Cannes (Leonardo Da Vinci internship Project), Paris, Abu Dhabi, Nice. Now it’s the turn to Vilnius! “I’m leaving for thr

Lithuanian young people have come back from a trip to Barcelona. The trip has gone to the past, but it has left a lot of deep impressions and would stay in memory of each participant for a long time.  New experience, bright and unique impressions, new friends have brought joy to every heart of participant till today. The support and charity fund „Vaikai stebuklais auga“ have taken part at amazing project „Urbanis – Y

I am Lithuanian and I live in-between two countries – Lithuania and Italy. Both countries are my home, no one [anymore] has priority to another one. In Lithuania my first son was born, in Italy another one came to this world.  My children are so different each from other, that I cannot tell who they are. I do not know if they are Italians or Lithuanians. They have both – Italian and Lithuanian – nam

Translated by: Elizabeth Rinde In June it will finally happen again: the FIFA World Cup in Brazil is rounding the corner. This means one month in which everyone in Germany and many other European countries are football fans. This is not a surprise since football is the number one sport almost everywhere. In Germany, on such occasions, we like to remember the World Cup. Here, the World Championship of 2006 is regarded

On the 9th May in 1950 French Foreign Office Robert Schumann got the idea of Europe integration. It was the beginning of the Union European. The first members of this Union were France, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Germany and the Netherlands. Many years have passed since 1950. More and more members have been accepted to the European Union. 10 years have passed since Lithuania has joined this Union. Do we feel any dif

Nowadays many people are interested in other cultures. But how to learn about them? The aim of my essay is to speak about learning the language to understand the culture. Let us start considering the understanding another culture by only learning the language. First, if you choose to understand culture by learning a foreign language it’s a good way because in this way you‘ll learn about culture widely. Learning the l