Mexicans Amazed When I Speak Rare Village Language (Zapotec)

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 (@smilemariav) 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