full cheeks (stuffed to the gills)
Po šventinio stalo visi sėdėjo pilnais žandais ir nebegalėjo pajudėti.
After the holiday table everyone sat there stuffed to the gills and could no longer move.
Memory lets a word go along a curve. Spaced repetition puts the next review just before the word slips, so every repeat buys more time than the one before it.
Seven cases, no shared vocabulary and a stress mark nobody writes down. What is genuinely hard about Lithuanian for an English speaker, what is easier than advertised, and the order that works.
Verba sends a short dictation every morning and brings the word back exactly when it starts to fade.
