A good piece on learning Latvian & Lithuanian - with a selection of personal experiences.
Kristel Zilmer
"Latvians used to tell me that Lithuanian “sounds Polish” due to lots of š sounds, Lithuanians think Latvian sounds like Lithuanian spoken with an Estonian accent"
deepbaltic.com/2026/06/08/h...
"Latvian definitely “wins” in terms of the number of diacritical marks, Lithuanian probably “wins” in terms of the smaller number of international borrowings"
