Today Mexico is the world’s largest Spanish speaking country but before the Spanish ever arrived there were many flourishing pre-Colombian civilizations here and some of their languages have still survived including Zapotec from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, which has many different sublanguages and as I later realized I somehow learned a particularly rare dialect, Sierra Norte, that is only spoken in a couple of small villages, but incredibly here in Los Angeles thanks to Maria who promotes the Zapotec language on her YouTube channel (   / @maria_oaxla  ) we were actually able to find some people who speak it and they were pretty shocked when I was able to talk with them in this rare language.

0:00 Introduction
0:37 Embarrassing myself speaking the WRONG language
1:38 Zapotecs impressed when I speak their EXACT village language
4:42 Eating grasshopper for first time (DELICIOUS)
5:52 "How do you speak Zapotec?"
8:45 Most delicious Mexican food I've ever eaten
10:42 Buying oranges off the street in...Korean?
11:38 How the Zapotec alphabet works

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