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Do you know that in Latvian, words and names from other languages are modified so that native speakers can pronounce them? So John would become Džons, and Jane, Džeina.
Watch this short video and get a glimpse of the wealth of Latvia’s culture: from the art nouveau buildings in the capital Riga to artist Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz, or Mark Rothko, and Latvia’s pelēkie zirņi, or grey peas, which are protected by the EU’s designation of origin quality label.
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