Thanks to the support from Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation, Latvian State Forests, and the Latgale Region Development Agency within the framework of the Latgale Cultural Program 2020 and 2021, this course is free of charge.

With the desire to contribute to the preservation of Latgalian, the lesser used of the two written traditions of Latvian, we have created material for learners of the language, thinking about young people and adults both in Latvia and elsewhere in the world. Based on a communicative approach to language learning, in this material we have paid special attention to the social aspect of language use – the modern Latgalian language, as it’s spoken today.

The textbook is to be published in summer 2022, but here you find all the audiofiles, recordings of the texts in the book following the four main persons in our story – Odums, Agnieszka, Viktor and Gundega, as well as chats on a (fictive) Latgalian dating app. All texts ar accopagned with translations into English. In addition to that, there are some tasks to train listening skills.

Each of the 24 main texts are given in two versions – a shorter for beginners and a longer one.

Listen to the sound of the language, stop the recording to train the pronuncuation, read and learn through the parallel texts!

In addition, you can use the Latgalian-English dictionary – Vuordineica – in the learning process. Please note that it is still under development!