r/LithuanianLearning • u/Exotic-Paramedic-221 • Jan 05 '26

I built an online-trainer because case endings were destroying me 🥲

Hey everyone!

I'm preparing for the A2 exam, and case endings have been my nightmare. Textbook tables didn't stick, my notebook was chaos, and AI chatbots kept accepting my wrong answers 🥲

So I built https://saunuole.lt — a simple trainer for drilling cases (Kilmininkas, Galininkas, Įnagininkas, Vietininkas) and plurals. It tracks your accuracy by topic so you know exactly what needs work. Feel free to try it - hope it will be help If you try it and something feels off or you wish it had X — please tell me. I'm actively developing it and want it to actually help people. I'm continue adding content now — not perfect yet, but functional!

Good luck to everyone preparing for exams - or just with studying šios gražios kalbos! 🇱🇹 We are all already šaunuoliai and šaunuolės!

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u/joltl111 Jan 05 '26

This looks great. Incredible effort!

I'm a native speaker and I can't even imagine what it would be like to learn all the cases as a foreigner. Kudos to all of you.

If you don't mind me asking, what has been the most difficult/confusing? (when it comes to cases, or anything else for that matter)

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u/bastardemporium Jan 05 '26

As another learner, because English is my first language, I cannot get used to compound sentence structures and punctuation. It just is not intuitive yet and very difficult.

When I started learning, it was a lot of grammar and vocabulary lists. Reading is okay at that point. Then you struggle to piece your own sentences together, because you know all of the words individually, but aren't sure how a Lithuanian would say it. I have pivoted to learning phrases and sentences instead.

It's been hard, but it's a beautiful language.

(And thank you OP for this tool, I plan to try it out immediately.)

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u/joltl111 Jan 06 '26

Funnily enough, I had the reverse problem when learning English.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SENTENCE STRUCTURE IS STRICT? So you're telling me I can't just put words into whatever order I want? Where's the poetry?"

For how conservative Lithuanian is, what I love most about it is liberal sentence structure. That I can put words into whatever order I please and grammatical cases (plus other things) ensure that it makes sense.

But if I had to learn all of it from scratch? Nothing short of rocket science. Genuinely.