Odums isn’t sure if Daugavpils University offers the option to study Latgalian online. On the internet he finds a group for DU students. He asks there if it’s possible to study Latgalian online and says a little about his connections with Latgale. That evening he receives an answer from Viktor.

• Hello Odums! I’m also interested in Latgalian. But I don’t know if you can study it online. I work at Daugavpils University, I will ask my colleagues if it’s possible.
• Hello Viktor! Thanks for your answer! I hope you will be able to clarify things. I would really like to be able to speak Latgalian as well as possible. Why are you interested in this language?
• I’m from St. Petersburg, but my wife is Latgalian. So we live in Daugavpils. I would like to learn Latgalian so that I can speak to my children, Anna and Aleksandrs, in Latgalian.
• For my part, I live in Fort Worth, Texas.
• I didn’t know that there were Latgalians living in Texas. That’s really great! So what other languages do you speak?
• I speak English, as well as Spanish. My dad comes from Costa Rica. So I speak English, Spanish and Latgalian. And what languages do you speak?
• My native language is Russian, but I’ve also learnt Latvian to a good level. At the moment I’m learning the written form of Latgalian. I also speak English. By the way, my wife’s relatives also emigrated to the USA after World War II. Maybe your grandmother knows something about them?