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Schoolchildren throughout Lithuania were looking smart and bearing the traditional gift of flowers for their teachers on 1 September, the first day of school. In Canada, the US, Thailand, and other nations, a slightly older group of Lithuanian students have returned from a summer at Vilnius University studying the language of their grandparents.
Returning to the land of their grandparents, diaspora learners spend a summer studying Lithuanian at Vilnius University
© DELFI / Tomas Vinickas

Lithuanian diaspora learners enrolled independently in the University’s month-long, intensive summer course to improve their Lithuanian grammar, pronunciation and literacy and to reconnect with their Lithuanian heritage.

Indre Altman, an 18 year-old Texas native, enrolled aware that she was speaking Lithuanian in a linguistic time warp.

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